The co-chairs of the National Service Congressional Caucus – Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE), Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA) and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) – have introduced the Promoting Service through AmeriCorps Act in the House (H.R. 9569)...
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ASU’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
Outside of direct financial benefit to fund Arizona community development – AmeriCorps provides a critical pathway to post-secondary education. AmeriCorps volunteers are diverse and represent the spectrum of learners we need to achieve our development goals in Arizona… [T]hey are...
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Our partnership with AmeriCorps is at the heart of our strategy to strengthen the value proposition of our Teaching Fellowship and professionalize the pathway into teaching to ensure a sustainable start to a career in education.
Read More »The Child Abuse Prevention Center
Without AmeriCorps, transformative services and the resulting positive outcomes for children and families across California would not be possible. The dedication and support of AmeriCorps members have not only uplifted individual families but have also strengthened the fabric of our...
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City Year’s work, and the work of other organizations like ours who want to ensure that all students can learn, grow and thrive, is needed now more than ever. If we put AmeriCorps funding on the chopping block as Congress...
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National service is one of the few institutions that can bring older and younger people together to serve side by side, to produce a windfall of human and social capital for communities and much-needed generational and cultural understanding… Without AmeriCorps,...
Read More »Colorado Youth Corps Association
AmeriCorps grants enable Colorado Youth Corps Association and seven of our accredited conservation service corps to perform critical conservation missions that save lives and provide economic mobility to historically excluded communities. Without AmeriCorps members performing critical forest thinning and being...
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