‘‘(ii) has a leadership position in the com-
munity from which the youth participating in 
the project will be drawn; 
‘‘(iii) proposes a project that focuses on 
service by the participants during the transition 
year before high school; 
‘‘(iv) plans to ensure that at least 50 per-
cent of the participants are low-income eligible 
youth; 
‘‘(v) proposes a project that encourages or 
enables youth to continue participating in com-
munity service throughout the school year; 
‘‘(vi) plans to involve the participants in 
the design and operation of the project, includ-
ing involving the participants in conducting a 
needs-based assessment of community needs; 
‘‘(vii) proposes a project that involves 
youth of different ages, races, sexes, ethnic 
groups, religions, disability categories, or eco-
nomic backgrounds serving together; and 
‘‘(viii) proposes a project that provides 
high quality service-learning experiences; or 
‘‘(B) if the organization will carry out the com-
munity service program directly, demonstrates that 
the organization meets the requirements of clauses 
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(i) through (viii) of subparagraph (A) with respect 
to each project described in the application; 
‘‘(3) describes the steps the organization will 
take, including the provision of ongoing technical as-
sistance described in subsection (d)(2)) and training, 
to ensure that projects funded under this part will 
implement effective strategies; and 
‘‘(4) describes how the organization will evalu-
ate the projects funded under this part, which shall 
include, at a minimum— 
‘‘(A) a description of the objectives and 
benchmarks that will be used to evaluate the 
projects; and 
‘‘(B) a description of how the organization 
will disseminate widely the results of the eval-
uations, as described in subsection (d)(3)(C). 
‘‘(c) APPLICANT REVIEW.— 
‘‘(1) SELECTION CRITERIA.—The Chief Execu-
tive Officer shall evaluate applications for grants 
under this section based on the quality, innovation, 
replicability, and sustainability of the programs pro-
posed by the applicants. 
‘‘(2) REVIEW
PANELS.—The Chief Executive 
Officer shall employ the review panels established 
under section 165A in reviewing the applications. 
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‘‘(3) NOTIFICATION
OF
APPLICANTS.—If the 
Chief Executive Officer rejects an application sub-
mitted under this section, the Chief Executive Offi-
cer shall promptly notify the applicant of the reasons 
for the rejection of the application. 
‘‘(4) RESUBMISSION AND RECONSIDERATION.— 
The Chief Executive Officer shall provide an appli-
cant notified of rejection with a reasonable oppor-
tunity to revise and resubmit the application. At the 
request of the applicant, the Chief Executive Officer 
shall provide technical assistance to the applicant as 
part of the resubmission process. The Chief Execu-
tive Officer shall promptly reconsider an application 
resubmitted under this paragraph. 
‘‘(d) QUALITY ASSURANCE ACTIVITIES.—An organi-
zation that receives a grant under this section may reserve 
up to 5 percent of the grant funds for quality assurance 
activities, which may include— 
‘‘(1) hiring staff to administer the program car-
ried out under this part by the organization; 
‘‘(2) providing technical assistance, including 
technical assistance concerning the professional de-
velopment and training of personnel, to local pro-
viders that receive subgrants under section 163A; 
and 
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‘‘(3)(A) conducting an evaluation of the 
projects carried out by local providers of the organi-
zation under this part; 
‘‘(B) using the results of the evaluation to col-
lect and compile information on best practices and 
models for such projects; and 
‘‘(C) disseminating widely the results of the 
evaluation. 
‘‘SEC. 163A. SUBGRANTS TO LOCAL PROVIDERS. 
‘‘(a) SUBGRANTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—An organization that re-
ceives a grant under section 163 may use the grant 
funds to award subgrants on a competitive basis to 
local providers to pay for the Federal share of the 
cost of carrying out community service projects. 
‘‘(2) PERIODS OF SUBGRANTS.—The organiza-
tion shall award the subgrants for periods of 3 
years. 
‘‘(3) AMOUNTS OF SUBGRANTS.—The organiza-
tion shall award such a subgrant to a local provider 
for a project in a sum equal to— 
‘‘(A) the amount obtained by multiplying 
$500 and the number of youth who will partici-
pate in the project (to be used for project ex-
penses); and 
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‘‘(B) unless the Chief Executive Officer de-
cides to deposit funds for educational awards in 
the National Service Trust, as described in sec-
tion 163(a)(2)(B), an additional amount equal 
to the amount described in subparagraph (A) 
(to be used for educational awards). 
‘‘(b) LOCAL PROVIDER APPLICATION.—To be eligible 
to receive a subgrant under this section, a local provider 
shall submit an application to the organization at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as 
the organization may require, including information 
that— 
‘‘(1) designates the communities in which the 
local provider will carry out projects under the 
subgrant, each of which communities may be the 
service area of an elementary school or secondary 
school, a school district, a city, town, village, or 
other locality, a county, the area in which a public 
housing project is located, a neighborhood, or an-
other geographically or politically designated area; 
‘‘(2) for each project described in such applica-
tion, describes the manner in which the local pro-
vider will— 
‘‘(A) engage a substantial portion of the 
youth in the designated community involved; 
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‘‘(B) engage a variety of entities and indi-
viduals, such as youth organizations, elemen-
tary schools or secondary schools, elected offi-
cials, organizations offering summer camps, 
civic groups, nonprofit organizations, and other 
entities within the designated community to 
offer a variety of summer service opportunities 
as part of the project; 
‘‘(C) ensure that the youth participating in 
the project engage in service-learning; 
‘‘(D) engage as volunteers in the project 
business, civic, or community organizations or 
individuals, which may include older individuals, 
volunteers in the National Senior Volunteer 
Corps established under title II of the Domestic 
Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 5000 
et seq.), participants in the school-based and 
community-based service-learning programs car-
ried out under parts I and II of subtitle B, par-
ticipants in the AmeriCorps program carried 
out under subtitle C, or students enrolled in 
secondary schools or institutions of higher edu-
cation; 
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