The AmeriCorps Budget Crisis of 2003 (A): Why the National Service Movement Faced Cutbacks and How it Responded Case Solution
The case A emphasizes on the early years of the plan in the 1990s, providing a definitive report--based on interviews with those who drafted the authorizing laws--on how the plan was conceived and structured and how it obtained Congressional approval, including the political motives for directing some AmeriCorps grants to big, multi-state "national direct" organizations such as Teach for America, and others to small, local organizations financed through state "service commissions". Finally, its focus narrows to the public fiscal management question about the best way to finance a specific trust fund from which instruction awards for AmeriCorps members are paid.
This article brings up the question of the best way to finance the National Service Education Trust the mismanagement of which comes to start the 2002-2003 budget crisis affecting the whole program in a manner that's both prudential but not too pricey. In combination with the start the of the (B) case, this case can be used to discuss approximation models for financing an extensive assortment of public benefits, including such analogues as public pension systems including the US social security system. HKS Case Amount 1739.0
This is just an excerpt. This case is about LEADERSHIP & MANAGING PEOPLE
PUBLICATION DATE: March 01, 2004
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