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Causes: Community Service Clubs
Mission: To improve lives, strengthen communities and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.
Programs: National service and capacity-building: to administer americorps grants awarded to onestar national service commission, and to promote best practices and models for enhancing capacity-building activities to nonprofit organizations, including faith-based and other community organizations, in order to enhance organizational capactiy, program quality and system effectiveness.
volunteerism: to reduce the obstacles that faith and community-based groups face in partnering with government, to play a lead role in establishing collaborations and partnerships between gov't, faith and coumminty-based groups, to coordinate research and policy efforts to measure the impact of these partnerships in serving texans in need, to train volunteer managers, and to recognize and award individual volunteer efforts.