authority to establish and operate programs

authority to establish and operate programs Sec. 122. (a) The Director is authorized to conduct or make grants or contracts, or both, for special volunteer programs or demonstration programs (such as but not limited to a program to provide alternatives to the incarceration of youthful offenders: a program to promote educational opportunities for veterans; and a program to provide community-based peer group outreach and counseling for drug abusers) designed to stimulate and initiate improved methods of providing volunteer services, to encourage wider volunteer participation on a full-time, part-time, or short-term basis to further the purpose of this part, and to identify particular segments of the poverty community which could benefit from volunteer and other antipoverty efforts. (b) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, assignment of volunteers under this section shall be on such terms and conditions as the Director shall determine, pursuant to regulations which he shall prescribe. (c) The Director, in accordance with regulations he shall prescribe, may provide to persons serving as full-time volunteers in a program of at least one year’s duration under this part such allowances and stipends, to the extent and in amounts not in excess of those authorized to be provided under part A of this title; as he determines are necessary to carry out the purpose of this part.