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7/16/2008 Planned System Outage, July 16, 8:00 - 8:30 PM EST
  Earlier today the My AmeriCorps Recruitment system began to experience periodic problems. In order to alleviate this problem we need to reboot the Corporation’s servers causing our systems – including the My AmeriCorps Portal, Recruitment System, and eGrants – to be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes. The reboot is scheduled to begin at 8:00 PM EST and will terminate all actions within these systems. We anticipate having the systems back up by 8:30 PM EST.

6/27/2008 CEO Statement on Senate FY09 Appropriations
  As promised, here are the numbers reported out by the Senate Appropriations Committee in the Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations bill for fiscal year 2009. The bill provides $888,462,000 for the Corporation and its programs.

6/26/2008 CEO Update on Fiscal 2009 National Service Budget
  Update on Fiscal 2009 National Service Budget from David Eisner, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

6/18/2008 New Law Makes AmeriCorps More Accessible to SSI Recipients
  On June 17, 2008, President Bush signed into law H.R. 6081, the Heroes Earnings Assistance and Relief Tax Act of 2008 (“the HEART Act”), making AmeriCorps more accessible to people with disabilities.

6/1/2008 Remarks by Congressman John Lewis at Opening Plenary of the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service
  Remarks by Congressman John Lewis at Opening Plenary of the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Atlanta, GA.

6/1/2008 Remarks by David Eisner at Opening Plenary of the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service
  Remarks by Corporation for National and Community Service CEO David Eisner at Opening Plenary of the 2008 National Conference on Volunteering and Service, held in Atlanta, GA.

4/29/2008 President Bush Discusses National Volunteer Week
  The White House hosted a cebration of National Volunteer Week on Tuesday, April 29, 2008, in the East Room. President Bush delivered remarks to invited guests including, 33 Peace Corps Trainees, 64 Peace Corps Country Directors, and approximately 100 volunteers from organizations such as Camp Fire USA, Jumpstart, N Street Village, AmeriCorps NCCC, AmeriCorps Vista, Hope Worldwide, Orange County Rescue Mission, and Partners of the Americas.

4/2/2008 CEO Technology Update and Scheduled Systems Outages
  I am writing today to notify you of a planned system outage for April 3 and remind you of the upcoming power outage scheduled for April 11 – 14.

3/27/2008 CEO Technology Update and Scheduled Systems Outages
  I want to alert you to two scheduled systems outages, and update you on the status of the My AmeriCorps Portal fixes implemented.

3/21/2008 CEO Technology Update
  I am writing today to provide a technology update and to once again thank you for your continued patience. I continue to receive daily, and in some cases hourly, updates on potential solutions to these challenges, as well as how these ongoing issues are impacting the work you do. We are working to mitigate the problems you are facing, identifying work-arounds where possible and providing information where no interim fix is available. Still, I know this process continues to be difficult.

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