Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 129— - NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE STATE GRANT PROGRAM › Part Part II— - Application and Approval Process › § 12584
Requires applicants for federal national service funding to promise that any program or approved service position paid for with that funding will not do work that directly helps certain groups. Those groups include for‑profit businesses, labor unions, partisan political groups, religious groups (unless the work does not use the federal funding or the participants are not giving religious instruction, leading worship, running required religious programs, building or running worship facilities, or trying to convert others), and nonprofits that break the rules in tax code section 501(c). Participants may still do advocacy on their own. The rule about not helping for‑profit businesses does not apply to a Regional Corporation set up under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (43 U.S.C. 1602(g)) if it is a for‑profit company that is carrying out nonprofit activities.
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42 U.S.C. § 12584
Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73