AmeriCorps

Organization Country: United States

Americorps connects both youth and older folks with opportunities around the US where they can contribute to local community growth and development. They spawned out of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), created during the Great Depression by FDR, in order to provide jobs for the jobless and build necessary infrastructure at the same time. Their listed goal is to “make service to others an indispensable part of the American experience.”

Their audience is all Americans, but especially youth.

They have 6 focuses: Disaster services, education, economic opportunity, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.

There are 10s of programs within each of their 6 approaches. Each program is locally focused, and Americorps connects them.

They are a government program that both directly connects with youth and with other, more local organizations. An example of this is Kupu, a program in Hawaii focused on environmental stewardship. Kupu has 6 month and one-year programs that are essentially paid internships, and Americorps provides the funding that pays the interns, and Kupu provides the direction. 

Government funding + private sector donations.

Americorps does much of what we aim to do, but for more than youth, and they largely only work with other organizations to provide them with people. The biggest difference is that Americorps is a government program, whereas we are not.


https://thewowfoundation.com/young-leaders-directory-2022


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Created 20 June 2023 20:24:32 by Marx
Updated 2 May 2024 19:55:24 by Connor