The goal of the Minnesota Alliance With Youth’s Promise Fellow program is to prevent school dropout through targeted support of middle and high school students in Minnesota. AmeriCorps members work with students at risk of school disengagement and provide supports to improve student attendance, engagement, and work completion.
Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps (ALCC) is an environmental service program dedicated to promoting field research and direct conservation service. Founded in 2008 as a program model within the Southwest Conservation Corps, ALCC established itself as its own corps in 2021. ALCC supports communities and the environment through offices in Acoma Pueblo, Navajo Nation, Zuni Pueblo, Hopi-Kykotsmovi, and Albuquerque.
Homeless & Housing Coalition of Kentucky’s (HHCK) Homes for All program provides housing-related services to individuals and families across Kentucky who are experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity or are in search of affordable homeownership opportunities. HHCK works with several partner organizations to provide services. As part of those partnerships, Homes for All AmeriCorps members serve at nonprofits, public agencies, and government institutions, working in a variety of ways to serve people at risk of or currently experiencing homelessness.
In the spring of 2020, AmeriCorps VISTA founded the Food Security Initiative (FSI) to respond to the critical need for food access across the country exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, the FSI served as an opportunity to explore the impact of larger, statewide projects as opposed to smaller, more concentrated projects targeting specific communities.
To learn more about Puerto Rico-based AmeriCorps programs, the AmeriCorps Office of Research and Evaluation contracted with a research firm to synthetize information about the opportunities and challenges of implementing AmeriCorps State and National and AmeriCorps VISTA projects on the island and explore the outcomes of these projects.
Energy Express is a West Virginia University Extension program that provides services to children living in rural West Virginia in either a five- or six-week format during the summer break. The focus of the program is to promote school success, and in order to do so, Energy Express sets both nutritional and scholastic goals for the program each year. The program attempts to meet nutritional goals by providing the children who participate with a nutritious breakfast and lunch each day.
The focus of this impact study is the College Advising Corps @ Boston University (CAC). CAC is a national program that recruits and trains recent college graduates from partner higher education institutions across the country. These recent college graduates serve as full-time advisers. They provide support that high-need students need as they navigate the complex processes required to attend and matriculate in college and to secure financial aid.
The Washington Service Corps (WSC) developed an augmented training and technical assistance program to build the capacity of WSC AmeriCorps members. The intervention aimed to prepare members to transition from service to career, feel more connected to each other, advance their leadership, and inspire them to be civically engaged beyond their service year.
Research finds that students from low-income and under-resourced backgrounds are at a critical academic and social disadvantage due to inequitable in-school and out-of-school-time (OST) learning opportunities. The Breakthrough Miami (BTM) AmeriCorps program is guided by a vision of ensuring that low-income, under-resourced, and traditionally underrepresented students in Miami-Dade County can succeed in school and attain post-secondary success.
Having been in operation since the inception of the AmeriCorps National Service program in 1994, AmeriCorps St. Louis has continuously provided disaster response and environmental stewardship while exemplifying the highest value of national service for the last 27 years. The organization has learned from evaluations of National Civilian Community Corps as well as two internal evaluations about the benefits and effects of our work.