What’s Going On?

You are cordially invited to participate in an upcoming Focus Group to assist the Arizona Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism with the development of a new 2013-2015 State Service Plan for Arizona. The Focus Group will be approximately two hours in length and will provide you with an opportunity to share your perceptions, opinions, experience and ideas regarding the current and future state of service and volunteerism in your area and in Arizona. When completed, the State Service Plan will set forth goals, priorities, and strategies for promoting service and volunteerism, determine better methods of leverage our National Service resources to address critical community needs, as well as articulate a plan for strengthening the state’s service and volunteerism infrastructure.

We ask that you participate in the following focus group:

Day and Date: Tuesday, March 26th
Time: 10:00am
Location: Players 9th Street Youth Center
Address: 1309 9th Street

To confirm your participation, please RSVP by Monday at 3pm, by sending an email to .

Who are we?

The Governor’s Commission on Service and Volunteerism is a governor-appointed state entity that engages more than 35,000 Arizonans in service through service and volunteer efforts and by providing oversight and administering Arizona’s AmeriCorps Stateprogramming in partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service, with funds appropriated by Congress. For more information please visit: http://gocyf.az.gov/CYD/BRD_AGCSV.asp

The Corporation for National and Community Service is a federal agency that engages more than 4 million Americans in service through Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and the Social Innovation Fund, and leads President Obama’s national call to service initiative, United We Serve. The Arizona Field Office is responsible for managing the AmeriCorps VISTA and Senior Corps resources. For more information please visit: http://www.nationalservice.gov/.