This originally appeared on The Dallas Morning News on July 13, 2021 By AnnMaura Connolly and Rye Barcott 1:30 AM on Jul 13, 2021 As our communities work to recover from a pandemic that has disproportionately battered lower-income rural and urban areas, the...
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Young Graduates Want to Serve. AmeriCorps Provides the Pathway.
This originally appeared on Medium on June 28, 2021. By AnnMaura Connolly and Rye Barcott Americans graduating high school and college are searching for employment and a way to serve something larger than themselves. National service meets the moment. Congress...
Read More »National Service is a Bipartisan Priority
This originally appeared on The Hill on March 23, 2021. Last week, President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan into law. A little noticed but important provision in the law increases the national service budget by $1 billion, the first significant expansion of...
Read More »To Heal America, Look to National Service
The CORPS Act would expand America’s investment in national service programs to allow for the immediate, targeted deployment of tens of thousands of civilian service members in communities all across the country.
Read More »MLK Day of Service 2020
This MLK Day, instead of taking the day off, go out and serve others with an open mind and an open heart. Help carry the legacy of service created by the sacrifices of civil rights leaders like John Lewis, Harris...
Read More »Profiles of Service: Imari Prout, Civic Works AmeriCorps Member
As part of the celebration of 25 years of AmeriCorps and the Corporation for National and Community Service, Voices for National Service is highlighting two perspectives from those who have served over the past quarter century. First we heard from...
Read More »Profiles of Service: AmeriCorps & Returning Veterans
Spotlight on VetsWork Voices for National Service has launched a blog series profiling how national service members and programs are at the forefront of addressing our nation’s most pressing problems. View the entire series here, and be sure to download...
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