AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps is a National Service program that provides an opportunity for Americans of all ages and backgrounds to give their time and talent to address critical community needs like increasing academic achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, sustaining national parks, preparing for disasters, and more. Subrecipients (local non-profit organizations receiving funding) engage AmeriCorps members in service activities in the priority areas of: Education, including through Teacher Corps such as Teach for America, an evidence-based program; Disaster Services; Economic Opportunity; Environmental Stewardship; Healthy Futures; Veterans and Military Families; and Other Human Needs.