Raised in a rural Kentucky town, our youngest daughter went on to help adult learners all over the world. DOGE's USAID cuts changed all of that.

As Congress comes back in session after its August recess, the future success of Peace Corps rests in their hands as they review the Appropriations Bill. In his Jan. 20, 1961, inaugural address ...

March 1 marked Peace Corps Day when President Kennedy signed a 1961 executive order to establish the Peace Corps. Since 1961, more than 240,000 volunteers have served in 144 countries worldwide ...

Learn more. On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served ...

This is Peace Corps Week, marking the 64th anniversary of the March 1, 1961, start of the Peace Corps through an executive order signed by President John Kennedy. Congress would pass legislation ...

A TOWERING TASK tells the story of the Peace Corps, a unique U.S. government agency born out of the Cold War and the heady days of the Kennedy administration. To this day, Peace Corps Volunteers ...

The Trump administration has fired most of the board of the U.S. Institute of Peace and sent its new leader into the ...

University of Wisconsin graduates serving as volunteers in the Peace Corps are returning to overseas service for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic. The Peace Corps is an independent agency ...

Tawnya Panizzi Saturday, March 1, 2025 1:39 p.m. | Saturday, March 1, 2025 1:39 p.m. Dennis Mialki enrolled in the Peace Corps in 1978 and found himself — at 22 — as the city engineer of ...

Several DOGE members arrived with FBI agents in tow Friday, according to a press release by USIP. The White House called the ...

For the 21st year in a row, the University of Wisconsin was ranked second in a ranking of colleges and universities that have provided the highest number of Peace Corps volunteers, according to an ...