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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.
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.
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 ]
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.
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Level 1 trauma center affiliated with McGovern Medical School (formerly UTHealth Medical School) Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital; Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, affiliated with BCM; Rebecca Sealy Hospital, part of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. [1] [2]
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]
I am an Americorps Alum (NCCC)- spent a year of my life, full time, in the program. Americorps programs are *severely* prone to boosterism, given the nature of most of the participants (who definitely 'trend' towards certain idealist archetypes) - Americorps is the sort of well-intentioned program that rings very profound to certain people ...
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