 NPCA is separate from the United States Peace Corps, which is a federal agency.At conferences of global educators in the Midwest in the mid-1970s, a handful of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers began meeting regularly to discuss how to promote at home the values and lessons they had learned as Peace Corps Volunteers in the developing world.They adopted as their mission one of the three goals articulated by President John F. Kennedy when he created the Peace Corps in 1961