---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 2522.450"
title: "45"
number: "2522.450"
heading: "What types of programs or program models may receive special consideration in the selection process?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/2522.450"
---

# §2522.450. What types of programs or program models may receive special consideration in the selection process?


Following the scoring of proposals under [§ 2522.440](/cfr/45/2522.440.md) of this part, AmeriCorps will seek to ensure that its portfolio of approved programs includes a meaningful representation of proposals that address one or more of the following priorities:

- (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;
  - (2) Lower-cost professional corps programs, as defined in [paragraph (a)(3)](/cfr/45/2522.110.md) of § 2522.110 of this chapter.
- (b) **Program activities—**
  - (1) Programs that serve or involve children and youth, including mentoring of disadvantaged youth and children of prisoners;
  - (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;
  - (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);
  - (4) Programs that address issues relating to the environment;
  - (5) Programs that support independent living for seniors or individuals with disabilities;
  - (6) Programs that increase service and service-learning on higher education campuses in partnership with their surrounding communities;
  - (7) Programs that foster opportunities for Americans born in the post-World War II baby boom to serve and volunteer in their communities; and
  - (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.
- (c) **Programs supporting distressed communities—** Programs or projects that will be conducted in:
  - (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) An area that is environmentally distressed, as demonstrated by Federal and State data;
  - (3) An area adversely affected by Federal actions related to managing Federal lands that result in significant regional job losses and economic dislocation;
  - (4) An area adversely affected by reductions in defense spending or the closure or realignment of military installation;
  - (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) A rural community, as demonstrated by Federal and State data; or
  - (7) **A severely economically distressed community, as demonstrated by Federal and State data.**
- (d) **Other programs—** Programs that meet any additional priorities as AmeriCorps determines and disseminates in advance of the selection process.

## Notes

### Amendments

[70 FR 39600, July 8, 2005]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 12571-12595; 12651b-12651d; E.O. 13331, 69 FR 9911, Sec. 1612, Pub. L. 111-13.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 13796, Mar. 23, 1994, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[70 FR 39600, July 8, 2005]