A quick overview of the AmeriCorps Program

1. Get Things Done for America
The AmeriCorps Story

2. My AmeriCorps Story
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3. AmeriCorps
Rooted in America’s Tradition of Service
1933: Civilian Conservation Corps
1961: Peace Corps
1964: VISTA
1993: The Corporation for
National and Community
Service and AmeriCorps
2009: Serve America Act

4. Corporation for National and
Community Service & AmeriCorps
The Corporation for National and Community Service is the federal
agency that improves lives, strengthens communities, and fosters
civic engagement through service and volunteering. The
Corporation administers three main programs:
• Senior Corps: 450,000
Americans 55+
• AmeriCorps: 85,000 members
• Learn and Serve America:
1.5 million students in
service-learning

5. The Edward M. Kennedy
Serve America Act
• Signed into law April 21, 2009
• Landmark legislation to expand service
• Expands AmeriCorps to 250,000 members by 2017
• Priority focus on education, health, environment, veterans,
and economic opportunity

6. AmeriCorps Fast Facts
637,000 AmeriCorps members since 1994
774 Million Hours served by AmeriCorps members
$1.77 Billion Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards
earned by AmeriCorps members
2.4 Million Volunteers mobilized by AmeriCorps
members in 2009
3,300 Number of organizations served by
AmeriCorps members
$6.3 Billion AmeriCorps funds invested in nonprofit
and community groups since 1994

7. AmeriCorps Today
Meeting critical needs across America
• Teach and Tutor
• Mentor Youth
• Build homes
• Fight poverty
• Conserve the environment
• PROVIDE HEALTH SERVICES
• Respond to disasters
• MOBILIZE VOLUNTEERS
• Assist veterans
• Much, much more…

8. AmeriCorps Today
Three Programs
AmeriCorps
State/National
AmeriCorps
VISTA
AmeriCorps
NCCC

9. AmeriCorps State and National
• Largest branch of AmeriCorps
• About 77,000 members serve each year
• Members serve with more than
1,840 organizations
• Members address needs in education,
environment, health, housing, disaster
response and more
• Grantees include: national and local
nonprofits, schools, and universities,
public agencies, and Native American
tribes
• Full-time and part-time opportunities

10. AmeriCorps VISTA
• AmeriCorps’ poverty-fighting arm
• Created in 1964 as part of
War on Poverty
• 7,200 members serve each year
• VISTAs collaborate with low-income
individuals and communities to fight
poverty
• Focus on capacity building:
raising funds, recruiting volunteers,
and designing sustainable programs
• More than 1,300 project sponsors
• Full-time year-long service

11. AmeriCorps NCCC
• Team-based residential service
• Focus on disaster response,
environment, housing, and youth
• Teams travel to projects in
neighboring states
• Open to 18-24 year-olds
• 1,100 members serve each year
• Members live on 5 campuses:
Sacramento, CA; Denver, CO; Vinton,
IA; Perry Point, MD and Vicksburg, MS
• Full-time 10-month service

12. • Youth, Seniors, and Others In Need benefit from the tutoring,
mentoring, health, housing, and other services members
provide.
• Communities benefit from having better schools, safer
streets, more affordable housing, a cleaner environment, and
more engaged citizens.
• Organizations gain from having more reach and impact: 92%
of sponsoring groups say members helped increase how
many people they served to a large or moderate extent.
• Members acquire leadership and career skills, earn money for
college, and learn how to be active citizens.
Who Benefits from AmeriCorps?
We All Do

13. AmeriCorps Alumni
Continuing Their Service and Commitment
Longitudinal studies show AmeriCorps alums:
• are more connected to their communities
• continue to participate in community activities
• choose public service careers at higher levels
than their peers

14. How AmeriCorps Members
Help Community Organizations?
• AmeriCorps serves with 3,300 national,
state, and local groups.
• AmeriCorps expand reach
and impact – through direct service or
capacity building such as fundraising
and volunteer recruitment.

15. Why Join AmeriCorps?
• To help others
• Career skills
• Adventure
• Benefits
• Serve my community

16. AmeriCorps Benefits include:
• Living allowance
• Health care
• Student loan deferment
• Training
• Segal AmeriCorps Education Award
equal to the maximum amount of the
Pell Grant that can be used to pay for
college or pay back student loans.
For 2010-2011, the amount is $5350
AmeriCorps Benefits

17. Interested In Joining AmeriCorps?
 Visit AmeriCorps.gov
to learn more
 Think about how and
where you want to serve
 Talk to AmeriCorps
members and alums
 Find out what programs
are recruiting
 Apply!

18. Corporation for National and
Community Service & AmeriCorps
How You Can Support AmeriCorps
 Donate goods and services
 Provide matching funds
 Volunteer alongside AmeriCorps
 Spread the word

19. For more information
AmeriCorps website: AmeriCorps.gov
MPCA Community HealthCorps: www.mpca.net/healthcorps.html