Service Year Alliance Statement for the Record for the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing
Service Year Alliance Statement for the Record for the Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing on:
Final Recommendations and Report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service
Thursday, March 11, 2021
Chairman Reed, Ranking Member Inhofe and members of the Armed Services Committee,
Service Year Alliance is pleased to submit this testimony for the record for the hearing on the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
Service Year Alliance is an organization working to make a year of paid, full-time national service — a service year — a common expectation and opportunity for all young Americans. We do that through our Serve America Together campaign, which brings together a coalition of military and civilian service organizations, among others, to advocate to make civilian national service part of growing up in America. We also support service year programs and help stand up new innovative models, and maintain the only online portal — ServiceYear.org — that connects young people to all different types of available service year opportunities, including AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, YouthBuild and non-federally funded programs.