Bloomberg Swears-in Civic Corps

NEW YORK—Mayor Michael Bloomberg swore in the second class of the New York City corps on Tuesday, a specially trained group of AmeriCorps members who work at nonprofit and public organizations to increase the number of volunteers.

In this one-year program, Civic Corps members help to build infrastructure and programs in nonprofits to most efficiently use volunteers and recruit new volunteers. Bloomberg called them the “force multiplier.”

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