The United States federal government has launched its own programs aimed at putting volunteers in places within the country or in the world that have been identified as needful of such service. The Corporation for National and Community Service was established in 1993, and while it takes volunteers of all ages across multiple programs, its AmeriCorps program is an option that many recent college graduates choose.[11] Meanwhile, the Peace Corps has been in existence since 1961, placing volunteers in (among other contexts) third-world poverty, that they might be partner to local communities efforts at self-improvement.[12] With these programs understood to be “governmental post-graduate service”, most of the rest of what is considered post-graduate service is non-governmental.