Giving Compass' Take:

• Jesse Colvin explains how a determined effort in funding national service through nonprofits can help unify Americans in their response to today's ongoing crises.

• Why are nonprofits so vital to our survival? How are you funding national service right now?

• Learn more about how you can help nonprofits survive the coronavirus pandemic.

Our country faces mounting public health, economic, and educational crises, as well as a nationwide reckoning on racial injustice — challenges that require thoughtful solutions to move the country forward. When it comes to addressing these critical issues, there are few solutions that have both bipartisan support and can be a true antidote in helping to rebuild in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As we determine how best to address each of these individual challenges, we also must confront the growing lack of trust in our institutions and the hyperpolarization that threaten the civic fabric of American society. If we are to truly tackle these issues, it will require a solution that unites Americans around a common cause in order to knit our communities back together.

Service Year Alliance is proud to be working with NIIAG and our partners to prioritize robust and reliable federal funding for an expanded vision of national service in America. NIIAG’s vision for national service — from lifting up the work of the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service, to ensuring people of all backgrounds and abilities are able to serve, and allowing nonprofits of all types access to national service corps members — reflects many of the same goals of the Serve America Together campaign’s policy platform, which lays out our vision for making national service part of growing up in America.

Investing in national service, as proposed by NIIAG, can build upon a strong, existing national service infrastructure and ensure that nonprofits — critical components of America’s civic infrastructure — have the support and human power they need to be successful.

Read the full article about funding national service by Jesse Colvin at Independent Sector.