Deadline for commenting on draft Strategic Plan 2014-18 is today, after all.

The Draft Strategic Plan is  available on the Peace Corps official website. Here is the link: http://www.peacecorps.gov/about/open/plan/

The deadline for RPCVs to comment on the plan is today,  December 2^nd. . Here is the email address that is still accepting comments:  copy and paste: strategicplan@peacecorps.gov

However, to see how effective suggestions made in 2009, were, read the  Letters to the then new Director Aaron Williams, including that of John Coyne, in August of 2009 on Hugh Pickens‘ Peace Corps Online: The text to link to is:  http://peacecorpsonline.org/messages/messages/2629/3216275.html

Peace Corps is not a public corporation, but rather a federal agency with a large number of political appointees. The 2016 may intervene with the implementation of the Strategic Plan. If the Republicans capture the White House in 2016, then their Political appointees will decide the direction for Peace Corps. The Peace Corps hierarchy is always waiting on the dock when the Ship of State sails in.