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Glossary of Terms

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Direct service

- providing service directly to the community, community residents or both. Direct service may be tutoring, cleaning a river bed, teaching English, painting a home, assisting a teacher, counseling a crime victim or teaching someone CPR. It includes activities that directly benefit an organization’s primary acquirers of service or mission.

DSVA

- Domestic Volunteer Service Act. This statute authorized Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the National Senior Service Corps in 1970. VISTA was originally authorized under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

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