About Americorps
Who We Are
AmeriCorps, the domestic Peace Corps, engages more than 70,000 Americans
in intensive, results-driven service each year. AmeriCorps members are teaching children to
read, making neighborhoods safer, building affordable homes, and
responding to natural disasters through more than 1000 projects. Most
AmeriCorps members are selected by and serve with projects like Habitat
for Humanity, the American Red Cross, and Boys and Girls clubs, and many
more local and national organizations.
After their term of service, AmeriCorps members
receive an Education Award to help finance college or pay back qualified student
loans.
National Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees
AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve America, and the National Senior Service
Corps, works with governor-appointed state commissions, non-profits,
faith-based groups, schools, and other organizations to provide
opportunities for Americans of all ages to serve their communities.
What AmeriCorps Members Do
Across the country, AmeriCorps members train volunteers, tutor and mentor
at-risk youth, build housing, clean up rivers and streams, help seniors
live independently, provide emergency and long-term assistance to victims
of natural disasters, and meet other community needs.
AmeriCorps Initiatives
Since 1994, more than 400,000 men and women have served as AmeriCorps members in more
than 900 programs nationwide. AmeriCorps members are united by four common
goals:
- Getting Things Done through
direct and demonstrable service that helps solve community problems in
areas of education, public safety, environment and other human needs.
- Strengthening Communities by
bringing together Americans of all ages and backgrounds in the common
effort to improve our communities.
- Encouraging Responsibility by
enabling members to explore and exercise their responsibilities toward
their communities, their families, and themselves.
- Expanding Opportunity by
enhancing members' educational opportunities, job experience and life
skills.
AmeriCorps National Website
