TAKE ACTION! Keep Those Peace Corps Funding Messages Coming!
 November 2015
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NPCA ADVOCACY 
BY THE NUMBERS

4
States to be visited during our upcoming southern trip

17
cities to be visited during our upcoming southern trip

19
NPCA Staff visits in the past month with key Appropriations Committee members to urge increased funding for the Peace Corps

1,800+
NPCA advocate messages sent to Congress in the last three weeks to reinforce the call for more Peace Corps funding!

Advocacy Photo of the Month

We love visitors at the National Peace Corps Association! One of our October visitors was Montana Advocacy Coordinator Otto Koester (l) who was in town for other business. Otto met with NPCA Advocacy Director Jonathan Pearson (r) to catch up on advocacy developments.

If you find yourself in our nation's capital, take a swing by 1900 L Street NW to say hello and get fullyconnected!

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Increase Peace Corps
Funding? Yes You Can!
As Congress closes in on final Fiscal Year 2016 funding decisions, this is the moment to take action with your lawmakers.

Thanks to you, more than 1,800 messages have been sent, using our new, easy online service. 

The top states sending funding messages so far? Illinois, California, Missouri, Michigan and Florida!

Big thanks to all, please click here to take action and keep those messages coming, and ask others to do the same. The next 2 - 3 weeks is critical.

(Photo: NPCA staff and South Florida RPCVs came together in October for an important meeting with staff of House Appropriator Mario Diaz-Balart)

Southern Trip
It starts this Friday in Atlanta, Georgia. Eleven days later, it concludes in Greenville, South Carolina. 

In between, there will be advocacy workshops in Jackson MS and Columbia SC, happy hours in Birmingham AL and Charleston SC, and informal gatherings in Savannah GA and Hattiesburg MS.

And...there's even more! Check out and share the full itinerary for our southern advocacy road trip!


GAO Report on Post-Peace Corps Health Care
Peace Corps
Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who come home with serious illness and injuries are eligible for benefits through the US Labor Department.

But is that system the best fit? That was the question before the Government Accountability Office, which compared the support system for RPCVs with the system used by employees of US Agency for International Development (USAID) contractors.
Featured Advocate: Angie Harris
Talk about rising through the ranks!

Five years ago, Tennessee's Angie Harris was just getting familiar with the National Peace Corps Association and its advocacy program.

Now, she's a national leader within the Peace Corps community with a continued commitment to citizen lobbying. Find out more about our featured advocate for November.

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More Opportunities through NPCA Advocacy
State Retirement Credit

The photograph above is from a recent hearing in Massachusetts on legislation to expand opportunities for all state employees to secure retirement credit for Peace Corps service.

Two RPCVs, including Alicia Charleston of the Boston Area RPCVs testified, while the NPCA submitted this testimony in support of the legislation.

What is the status of state retirement credit where you live? We are in the process of updating this information and have added it as another item available on our State Resources page.

 
Grow the Peace Corps Caucus

When members of the Northeast New York RPCVs met this summer with Albany Congressman Paul Tonko, he responded to their request and joined the Peace Corps Caucus!

You can help make sure the House Peace Corps Caucus is larger than it was in the previous (113th) Congress.

Follow this link for quick and easy action to urge your Congressman/woman to join the Peace Corps Caucus. It is especially important to increase the number of Republican members of the non-partisan caucus.

More From NPCA and Your Advocacy Program

Peace Corps Community Fund

We are launching a new NPCA! Everyone who served in the Peace Corps is a member, but as the non-profit, non-governmental independent arm of the Peace Corps community, we still need your financial support! 

Learn more about the new NPCA and donate through our community fund.


NPCA Directory

The Peace Corps is nearly 55 years old.

Roughly 220,000 volunteers and staff have served.

Don't you want to be counted?

Make sure you are a part of our 55th anniversary 


RPCVs for Environmental Action

A group of RPCVs committed to environmental protection are forming RPCVs for Environmental Action. Get connected by joining their FaceBook group.

One key focus for the group - climate change - remains as NPCA's global advocacy issue of the month

In Memoriam

Visit our In Memoriam page to view the tremendous accomplishments of those who served our nation and recently passed away.
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