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What Is AmeriCorps?
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.
What Do AmeriCorps Members Do?
AmeriCorps members do a wide range of things:
They recruit, train, and supervise community
volunteers, tutor and mentor youth, build affordable
housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and
streams, run after-school programs, help communities
respond to disasters, and build the capacity of
nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining, among
many other activities.
What Benefits Do AmeriCorps Members Receive?
In exchange for a year of full-time service,
members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award of
$4,725 that can be used to pay for college or
graduate school, or to pay back qualified student
loans. Awards are pro-rated for part-time service.
Some members also receive a living allowance and
health care.
AmeriCorps Fast Facts
- 542,000: Number of people who have
served as AmeriCorps members since 1994.
- 705 Million: Total number of hours
served by AmeriCorps members
- $1.43 Billion: Total amount of Segal
AmeriCorps Education Awards earned by AmeriCorps
members.
- 1.7 Million: Number of community
volunteers managed or mobilized by AmeriCorps
members in 2007.
- 4,100: Number of nonprofit,
faith-based, and community organizations that
AmeriCorps members served with last year.
- $5 Billion: Amount of AmeriCorps
funds invested in nonprofit, community,
educational, and faith-based community groups
since 1994.
How Do I Join?
Go to
www.americorps.gov to get started!
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