Backup Documents 09/22/2020 Item #16H 3 1 6H 3
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, AmeriCorps members are making a powerful impact on the most critical
issues facing our nation; and
WHEREAS, AmeriCorps Near Peer Coaching for Postsecondary Success sponsored
by Earn to Learn FL and Volunteer Florida address the most pressing
challenges of educating students for jobs of the 21st century; and
WHEREAS, Earn to Learn FL will mark the opening day of AmeriCorps Near Peer
Coaching for Postsecondary Success sponsored by Earn to Learn FL and
Volunteer Florida with a pledge ceremony for 40 AmeriCorps members
to launch Near Peer Coaching for Postsecondary Success for their
service to Lee, Collier, Charlotte, Hendry, and Hillsborough counties;
and
WHEREAS, national service expands economic opportunity by creating more
sustainable, resilient communities and providing experience, career
skills, and college scholarships for those who serve; and
WHEREAS, AmeriCorps members demonstrate commitment, dedication, and
patriotism by making an intensive commitment to service, and after
their terms of service remain engaged in our communities as volunteers,
public servants, and civic leaders in disproportionately high levels;
NOW THEREFORE, be it proclaimed by the Board of County Commissioners of Collier
County, Florida, that the public service rendered by the Earn to Learn
FL Near Peer Coaching for Postsecondary Success Program is
recognized for the positive impact made by AmeriCorps members in
Collier County;
DONE AND ORDERED THIS 22"d Day of September, 2020.
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BURT L. SAUNDERS,