---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 U.S.C. § 9580"
title: "20"
title_heading: "Education"
number: "9580"
heading: "Voluntary service"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/20/9580"
units:
  - "Chapter 76 — Education Research, Statistics, Evaluation, Information, and Dissemination"
  - "Subchapter I — Education Sciences Reform"
  - "Part F — General Provisions"
---

# §9580. Voluntary service


The [Director](/usc/20/9501.md?p=9) may accept voluntary and uncompensated services to carry out and support activities that are consistent with the priorities and mission of the [Institute](/usc/20/9501.md?p=14).


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 107–279, title I, § 190, Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1974.)