The National Peace Corps Association is the nation’s leading nonprofit organization supporting Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) and the Peace Corps community.
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- Panel & Reception with the Wor...
University of Washington Bank of Am...
Wednesday, September 8 at 6:30pm - Conference
Peace Corps Headquarters
Thursday, September 9 at 8:30am - University of Michigan Symposi...
University of Michigan
Wednesday, October 13 at 9:00am - Peace Corps' 50th Anniversary...
Washington, DC and around the world
Thursday, September 22 at 8:00am
It can be hard for recently Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) to get back into the swing of things. Readjusting to life at home in the midst of reverse culture shock, while also attempting to make major life decisions (Get a job? Rent an apartment? Go back to school?) can be quite daunting....
Casey Frazee and other RPCVs are advocating for stronger policies to support volunteers who have been subjected to sexual assault
National Peace Corps Association “If not for language differences, farmers around the world can readily communicate. If someone is growing 10,000 acres of corn, they face the same problems as someone growing 1,000 acres or one acre...."
L to R: RPCVs Al Conklin and Tom Stillwell are professors at Wilmington College - the only school in Ohio other than Ohio State offering degrees in agriculture
National Peace Corps Association "Be their cheerleader...Trust in their fortitude. Don't project your own fears."
Sandy and Phil Woznicki hope to visit their daughter next May to celebrate her first year of Peace Corps service, and her 23rd birthday
Sitara Ahmed Please go to www.distressedchildren.org to help the underpriveliged children of Bangladesh.
National Peace Corps Association "We cannot discontinue training our young men as soldiers of war," John F Kennedy said. "But we also need them as ambassadors of peace." Tell us what the Peace Corps means to you in the "My Piece of the Peace Corps" contest.
World Affairs Council - Seattle So where do people really get experience in development, community organizing, or microfinance??? Most Returned Peace Corps Volunteers would site Peace Corps! Join us NEXT WEEK for a FREE networking reception, followed by a panel discussion on The Legacy of the Peace Corps with Africa Rural Connect, the National Peace ...Corps Association, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, local Returned Volunteers, and recruiters from the Peace Corps!!! REGISTER TODAY!
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The logic of the Peace Corps is that someday we are going to bring it home to America. -President John F. Kennedy In March 2011, the Peace Corps will celebrate 50 years of promoting peace and citizen diplomacy in 139 countries around the globe. With nearly 200,000 Returned Peace Corps Volunteers in ...
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National Peace Corps Association What were some myths about the USA that your Peace Corps host communities told you?
National Peace Corps Association RPCVs continue to make a difference in all sorts of ways. Jonathan catches up with the Central Indiana Peace Corps Association...
Members of the Central Indiana Peace Corps Association - one of 140 NPCA member groups - gathered Thursday evening to plan future activities and learn more about the upcoming 50th anniversary
Bilal Robinson Long live PEVI 67/69 Venezuela, I wait for our next reunion,stay well and eat properly and get enough rest. Until we meet again 2011,Waka waka,ee ee its Peace Corps time
National Peace Corps Association We got some great news this week...
50th Anniversary Campaign Receives Morgan Family Foundation Grant | National Peace Corps Association
National Peace Corps Association President Kevin Quigley is honored to announce a two year, $100,000 grant from The Morgan Family Foundation to NPCA’s anniversary campaign. The Morgan Family Foundation is a private, family foundation that was established in 1993. It focuses on youth, education, th...
National Peace Corps Association Don't we know it! :-)
Until fairly recently, joining the Peace Corps usually meant living in a remote location and leaving behind family, friends and way of life. But mobile devices and the Internet are changing how volunteers serve -- and how they keep in touch with home. This connectivity is helpful for the volunteers...
National Peace Corps Association Officially or unofficially, RPCVs are the Peace Corps' best recruiters.
It’s prime time in the Peace Corps recruitment season. As university students begin to return to campus, the Chicago Peace Corps office wrapped up a three-day training for a dozen campus recruiters who will fan out across the eleven states covered in the region.
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Become a virtual citizen of costa rica:
www.anationforpeace.com/landing.html
Regardless of where you’re from you can now become a part of Costa Rica, the only country in the world with over 60 years of having no standing army.
...The goal is to virtually triplicate our population and present a document before the United Nations Secretary-General, and the permanent members of the Security Council, requesting:
- And the reduction of the global military expenditure by 10% to accomplish the UN Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
National Peace Corps Association RPCVs share their stories of service--both in the Peace Corps and here at home--at a district meeting with Sen. Herb Kohl's staff.
Protecting our water resources. Training teachers. Expanding business opportunities. From villages on the other side of the world to communities that are moments away, members of the Milwaukee Peace Corps Association shared their stories of service with staff of Wisconsin Senator Herb Kohl at a d...
