45 CFR §2522.450

1. (a)Program models: (1) Programs operated by community organizations, including faith-based organizations, or programs that support the efforts of community organizations, including faith-based organizations, to solve local problems;
   1. (2)Lower-cost professional corps programs, as defined in paragraph (a)(3) of § 2522.110 of this chapter.
2. (b)Program activities: (1) Programs that serve or involve children and youth, including mentoring of disadvantaged youth and children of prisoners;
   1. (2)Programs that address educational needs, including those that carry out literacy and tutoring activities generally, and those that focus on reading for children in the third grade or younger;
   2. (3)Programs that focus on homeland security activities that support and promote public safety, public health, and preparedness for any emergency, natural or man-made (this includes programs that help to plan, equip, train, and practice the response capabilities of many different response units ready to mobilize without warning for any emergency);
   3. (4)Programs that address issues relating to the environment;
   4. (5)Programs that support independent living for seniors or individuals with disabilities;
   5. (6)Programs that increase service and service-learning on higher education campuses in partnership with their surrounding communities;
   6. (7)Programs that foster opportunities for Americans born in the post-World War II baby boom to serve and volunteer in their communities; and
   7. (8)Programs that involve community-development by finding and using local resources, and the capacities, skills, and assets of lower-income people and their community, to rejuvenate their local economy, strengthen public and private investments in the community, and help rebuild civil society.
3. (c)Programs supporting distressed communities: Programs or projects that will be conducted in:
   1. (1)A community designated as an empowerment zone or redevelopment area, targeted for special economic incentives, or otherwise identifiable as having high concentrations of low-income people;
   2. (2)An area that is environmentally distressed, as demonstrated by Federal and State data;
   3. (3)An area adversely affected by Federal actions related to managing Federal lands that result in significant regional job losses and economic dislocation;
   4. (4)An area adversely affected by reductions in defense spending or the closure or realignment of military installation;
   5. (5)An area that has an unemployment rate greater than the national average unemployment for the most recent 12 months for which State or Federal data are available;
   6. (6)A rural community, as demonstrated by Federal and State data; or
   7. (7)A severely economically distressed community, as demonstrated by Federal and State data.
4. (d)Other programs: Programs that meet any additional priorities as AmeriCorps determines and disseminates in advance of the selection process.