Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association
Serving the Community and Peace Corps Volunteers around the world
 
 

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Welcome!

The Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association (SBPCA) is a network of returned Peace Corps Volunteers living in the Santa Barbara area whose purpose is to promote:

- understanding toward the diverse ethnic and culture groups around the world
- self-help among developing nations within a sound environmental framework
- projects for international peace and protection of human rights
- Peace Corps ideals and fellowship for our members

  

"A new generation
of Americans has taken over
this country...working for
freedom as servants of
peace around the world."
- John F. Kennedy, 1960

 

"I want to warn anyone
who sees the Peace Corps as
an alternative to the draft that
life may well be easier at
Fort Dix or at a post in Germany
than it will be with us."

- Robert Sargent Shriver

 


 

 

 

 

 

News to Note...

SBPCA-Sponsored Food Drive for Local Food Bank

This year, the SBPCA Board decided to start an annual tradition of encouraging SBPCAers to participate in a local charity drive during the holidays. While our Mini Grants program helps communities all over the world, we wanted to do something meaningful and useful here at home, too.

This year we're providing the opportunity for SBPCAers and friends to participate in a SBPCA-sponsored virtual food drive for our local Food Bank. With just a few clicks of your mouse, you can contribute to hunger relief in SB County by selecting to fund specific items or by inputing a specific dollar amount. For every $1 donated, Food Bank can distribute $7 worth of food! CLICK HERE to get to the SBPCA Food Drive Page.

The 2010 International Calendars have arrived!

Calendar sales are a big source of funding for our Mini Grants program.
They look so good up on walls and make great holiday gifts!
Click here to find out how to get yours now!

Include SBPCA T-Shirts in Your Holiday Gift Giving!

Like our calendars, our t-shirts double the bang for your gift-giving buck!
They make great holiday gifts and proceeds fund our Mini Grants Program!
Click here to see the shirts and to find out how to get yours now.

2009 = Record Number of Peace Corps Applications!

Peace Corps recruited 15,386 applicants in fiscal year 2009. This represents the largest amount of applications since the agency began electronically recording applications in 1998 and is an 18 percent increase from fiscal year 2008! Way to go, Peace Corps!
Click here to read more on this.

 

Peace Corps News Releases
Read the lastest news releases issued by the Peace Corps.
Some recent releases:
Peace Corps Establishes Program in Indonesia (12.11.09) (read it here)
Peace Corps Announces Top States & Metropolitan Areas (12.7.09) (read it here)
Peace Corps Returns to Madagascar (11.16.09) (read it here)
Peace Corps Returns to Sierra Leone (11.02.09) (read it here)
Peace Corps Announces 18% Increase in Applications (10.22.09) (read it here)
 Peace Corps Suspends Volunteer Program in Guinea (10.20.09) (read it here)
Peace Corps Named one of BusinessWeek’s
“Best Places to Launch a Career” (9.14.09) (read it here)
 "Peace Corps Ranked as a Top Ideal Employer
by College Students in 2009 Universum Survey" (7.10.09) (read it here)
Peace Corps Journals
Follow current Volunteers in real time from all over the
world as they blog and post photos and videos about their experiences.

Watch Peace Corps experiences from around the globe:

 

Peace Corps beginnings...
Kennedy asking University of Michigan students to dedicate 2 years of their lives (listen)
Kennedy press conference on signing EO#10924 establishing the Peace Corps (listen)
Kennedy speaking to the very first group of Peace Corps Volunteers (Ghana) (listen)


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Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association
P.O. Box 91406
Santa Barbara, CA 93190