Section 610.20  Definitions

All words shall be defined according to definitions in the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 and the rules promulgated thereunder unless defined herein to the contrary.

"Act" means the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993.

"Advisory Council" means the Lieutenant Governor's Advisory Council on Voluntary Action, and after January 9, 1995, the Lieutenant Governor's Commission on Community Service.

"Applicant" means an organization or entity, public or private, that is eligible to apply for national service funds under the Act.

"Competitive category" means that category of educational award funds for which the State of Illinois is eligible to compete against other states for educational awards in addition to those allocated by the Corporation in the formula-funded category.

"Corporation" means the Corporation for National and Community Service, created by the Act.

"Formula-funded category" means that category of educational award funds allocated by the Corporation to the State of Illinois based on a population formula as provided by the Act.

"Member" means an individual who has been selected to serve in an approved AmeriCorps program.

"Partnership" means a joint arrangement among a group of organizations eligible to apply for national service funds under the Act.

"Program" means a planned and coordinated group  of activities, procedures, etc. linked by common elements such as recruitment and selection of members, training for members and staff, regular group of activities, and assignment to projects, organized for the purpose of achieving the mission and goals of national service, and carried out with the assistance provided under the Act.

"Project" means an activity, carried out through a program that receives assistance under the Act, that results in a specific identifiable service or improvement that otherwise would not be done with existing funds, and that does not duplicate the routine services or functions of the employer to whom members are assigned.