States for Service Coalition 2026 Call to Action!

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The States for Service Coalition 2026 call to action was received and answered by SAVMA. The policy arm of America’s Service Commissions, is organizing an organizational sign-on letter to ask Congress to appropriate $30 million for the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF) in FY26. This is the fourth sign-on letter organized for VGF since it was created in 2009 as part of the Serve America Act. VGF is the only federal-level volunteer engagement funding, and it has a tremendous opportunity to expand to support volunteer infrastructure throughout the country.

We are asking your organization to sign-on to the letter (read the text of the letter) and to share this opportunity with your networks. Our hope is that increasing funding to $30 million will enable every state service commission to access VGF to support volunteer engagement in their state/territory and to have a competitive pool of funding for all nonprofits.

Please sign on to the letter by COB on Wednesday, April 23.

Please contact them directly at policy@statecommissions.org with any questions.

Thank you for your continued support of the Volunteer Generation Fund (VGF).

In service,

Alli Zuel, CVA (she/her) / Volunteer Engagement Manager /

America’s Service Commissions
azuel@statecommissions.org / (913) 244-0059/ Time Zone: Central

 

*Please note that the ASC team works flexibly and remotely across time zones — so while it suits me to email now, I do not expect a response or action outside of your own working hours.