President's Volunteer Service Awards Available Free of Charge for VIPS Volunteers
Citizen Corps has partnered with the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation to provide 10,000 Presidential Volunteer Service Awards free of charge to Citizen Corps Councils and Citizen Corps partner programs, including local VIPS programs.
Registered VIPS programs have been pre-registered to be official Certifying Organizations. Please note that, although the awards are free of charge, programs are responsible for shipping and handling costs. Click here for more information.
What’s New
05.08.2008
Emergency Management for Higher Education Grant Program
The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools is administering a new grant competition in FY 2008 to support emergency preparedness planning for higher education institutions. This new competition, the Emergency Management for Higher Education grant program, is designed to fund higher education institution projects to develop, or review and improve, and fully integrate, campus-based all-hazards emergency management planning efforts. Applications for this competition are due on May 27, 2008.
05.01.2008
VIPS in the News: March/April 2008
The latest issue of VIPS in the News is now available.
04.30.2008
A new volunteer profile from the Morrow, Georgia, Police Department has been added.
04.27.2008
On behalf of the national VIPS Program, thank you to the more than 139,000 volunteers providing valuable support to law enforcement agencies throughout the United States and across the world.
Register Your Program
To date, more than 1,700 law enforcement volunteer programs, representing more than 139,000 volunteers have registered.
Question of the Month: May 13, 2008
Training Calendar
May 22, 2008
Santa Fe, NM
Building Blocks of a Law Enforcement Volunteer Program-Santa Fe, NM
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