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AmeriCorps (/ ə ˈ m ɛr ɪ k ɔːr / ə-MERR-ih-kor [citation needed]; officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through a variety of stipended volunteer work programs in many sectors.
Public Allies continues to develop the leadership practice (i.e., their skills, career and network) and impact of the Alumni of its AmeriCorps Apprenticeship Program (#PAAlum) and those who've worked at Public Allies (#StaffAlum). As of October 2022, there are nearly 9,000 that comprise this network. [citation needed]
An AmeriCorps NCCC team on deployment in 2024 at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in California.. The National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), or AmeriCorps NCCC [a], is an AmeriCorps program founded in 1993 that engages young adults, aged 18 to 26, in team-based, residential community service projects across the United States.
Service Year Alliance launched the Service + Tech initiative on December 11, 2018. [11] with funding provided by Schmidt Futures, SAP, and Cisco. [12]The founding corporations were the Corporation for National and Community Service, AmeriCorps, Teach For America, City Year, Reading & Math Inc., Public Allies, the National Peace Corps Association, and Citizen Schools.
City Year AmeriCorps members commit to 11 months of service, leadership development and civic engagement, serving as tutors, mentors and role models in high-need schools. It provides extended-day activities: after-school programming, homework assistance, enrichment curricula and civic projects that build and serve communities.
In 1965, Luvaas was one of two AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers in Alabama, working with black sharecroppers and domestic workers in a government-funded program "designed to provide needed resources to nonprofit organizations and public agencies to increase their capacity to lift communities out of poverty." [1] [2] [3]
The AmeriCorps Education Award is granted to members who are serving, part-time or full-time, in participating programs through AmeriCorps.After completing a term of service, AmeriCorps members are eligible to receive the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award to pay education costs at qualified institutions of higher education, for educational training, or to repay qualified student loans. [1]
AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. President John F. Kennedy originated the idea for VISTA, which was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. [ 1 ]