Kansas Corps is a pool of student volunteers from Kansas colleges and universities who serve the community service needs of the state of Kansas. Kansas Corps serves as the coordinating agency that links various community service and volunteerism programs from Kansas higher education institutions for the direct purpose of serving the citizens of Kansas. With a single phone call, this group of college student volunteers can be mobilized to provide disaster relief, social services and/or community development assistance to any region of the state. Many of the Kansas public and private institutions of higher learning have some form of a community service/volunteerism program that is designed to match college students with the local community. This initiative does not create a new community service program, but rather links and builds upon the established programs across the state. The purpose of this program is to create a network of these various college programs that, when needed, can be called into action to serve the state.