The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B): Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded Harvard Case Solution & Analysis

The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (B): Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded Case Solution

Case B describes the choices which the Corporation for National and Community Service made regarding how best to estimate the capital needs for the Trust. Case B (1740.0), nevertheless, focuses on the political questions which grow when the National Service Trust is judged to be "under-financed". Especially, it frames the issue of whether and how organizations which receive federal grants to hire AmeriCorps "volunteers" should form to resist budget decreases which seem to be in the offing as an outcome of the fiscal difficulties of the Trust.
A subject which had been relatively unorganized and, really, was remarkable for factions;eg. The case raises questions both about the logistics and the wisdom of doing so and describes the variety of barriers to the building of such a political coalition.

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PUBLICATION DATE: March 01, 2004

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