Teach For America is a national program that recruits and trains young adults to teach in low-income and disadvantaged communities in the United States to help confront educational inequity through measurable student growth.    

The Washington Conservation Corps in partnership with city of Bellingham, established, maintained, and monitored a native plant restoration site near Anderson Creek in the Lake Whatcom watershed for a four-year period from 2018 through summer 2021. At the test site, Washington Conservation Corps applied three site treatments that are restoration methods used by the organization.

The Birth & Beyond (B&B) Family Resource Center Initiative, an AmeriCorps State and National program, supports families at risk of child maltreatment with weekly home visits by AmeriCorps members. AmeriCorps home visitors employ the evidence-based parent education curriculum, the Nurturing Parenting Program (NPP), and assess parents using the Adult-Adolescent Parenting Inventory (AAPI) to determine the risk of child maltreatment.    

The College Possible program supports college admission and success for low-income students through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support by near-peer coaches. The program also supports students to find and enroll in their best-fit college to increase their chances of persisting and graduating college.    

The AmeriCorps mission is to “improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering.” In addition to striving to improve communities and the lives of beneficiaries served through agency programs, AmeriCorps values the development of its service members and volunteers. 

To investigate the characteristics and attitudes of AmeriCorps service participants, the Office of Research and Evaluation administers a survey. The Member Exit Survey (MES) captures outgoing members’ service experiences upon their exit from the program. 

In 2002, AmeriCorps developed the nation’s most robust longitudinal data on Americans’ civic engagement and volunteering behavior, the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS provides vital monthly labor force statistics, reliable labor estimates at the state level, and panel analyses at one-year intervals. In 2010, AmeriCorps’ Office of Research and Evaluation led a review of the CPS focused on social capital, civic engagement, and social cohesion.

The AmeriCorps Urban Safety (AMUS) program worked with Wayne State University’s Center for Urban Studies (CUS) and Community CompStat programs to pursue permanent crime reductions by using real-time crime mapping analyses and collaborative problem-solving processes. This community-based intervention was implemented in various areas in the city of Detroit. AMUS’s goal was to build a network of deterrence meant to dissuade criminals from committing crimes, at every level, from the individual to the police precinct.