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About AmeriCorps Week

AmeriCorps Week is a recruitment and recognition event designed to bring more Americans into service, salute AmeriCorps members and alums for their powerful impact, and thank the community partners who make AmeriCorps possible.

AmeriCorps provides opportunities for 75,000 Americans to give back in an intensive way to their communities and country each year. It consists of three main programs: AmeriCorps State and National, whose members serve with more than 2,600 national and local nonprofit and community groups; AmeriCorps VISTA, through which members serve full time fighting poverty; and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps), a team-based residential program for young adults 18-24 who carry out projects in public safety, the environment, youth development, and disaster relief and preparedness.

The first-ever AmeriCorps Week was a major success. Thanks to the tens of thousands of AmeriCorps members, alums, staff, partners, and friends who joined in celebrating AmeriCorps reaching 500,000 members and recruiting more Americans into service.

In the AmeriCorps Week Newsroom you will find press releases, public statements, and proclamations from both the Corporation and across the nation.

Browse our collection of images that were submitted by individuals and projects who participated in AmeriCorps Week 2007.

In conjunction with AmeriCorps Week 2007, we created a short but powerful video that reflects the many ways that our members and project sponsors are addressing critical needs across America. We also used the top three videos from last year’s AmeriCorps Video Contest to create brand new, recruitment–focused public service announcements that are being distributed to television stations across the country.

Contact information for AmeriCorps Headquarters in Washington, DC as well as media contact information.