Save the date! Peace Corps Connect 2016, in conjunction with the Peace Corps' 55th anniversary, will be held in Washington, DC from September 22-25, 2016. The conference itself will take place on Friday and Saturday (Sept. 23-24) and other related activities are expected in the days surrounding the conference.

For advocates, plan to be with us for a major Capitol Hill Advocacy Day on Thursday, September 22, 2016, 55 years to the day when the Peace Corps Act was signed into law. Our advocacy activities will include an orientation and prep session on the evening of September 21st.

Stay tuned in the coming weeks and months for registration and other details.

A great gathering earlier this week of the Northern Ohio Returned Volunteer Association, which hosted NPCA President Glenn Blumhorst and Advocacy Fellow JM Ascienzo for a discussion that included the importance of advocacy as one tool in the "bringing the world home" toolkit!

Stops in Iowa and Minnesota will conclude Glenn and JM's Upper Midwest tour.

Meanwhile, Advocacy Director Jonathan Pearson hopes to do a late fall swing through the south.  We need your support for our fall mobilization tour.  $500 in donations will ensure four critical mobilization events in South Carolina.  Every $150 after that gets us to another city...another state.