The Public Allies AmeriCorps Apprenticeship program places AmeriCorps members with a variety of philanthropic organizations to develop new systems, conduct community assets and needs assessments, develop partnerships, and improve programming and capacity. The specific services delivered by AmeriCorps members may include: 

Energy Express is a West Virginia University Extension summer program that provides services to children living in rural West Virginia in either a five- or six-week format. In 2019, this program has served 79 low-income communities, with participants ranging from kindergarteners to incoming sixth graders. The focus of the program is to promote school success by setting both nutritional and scholastic goals for the program each year.

Appalachian Forest National Heritage Area (AFNHA): Enhancing Assets to Benefit Communities is a multi-focus intermediary program where AmeriCorps members conduct public lands improvement and assessment projects, deliver environmental stewardship education, and provide volunteer management and capacity-building for the organizations where AmeriCorps members serve. Members treat 600 acres of public land, educate 2,500 individuals in stewardship, and reach 10,000 members of the public broadly, and manage 700 volunteers. 

Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity (TCHFH) brings people together to create, preserve, and promote affordable homeownership and advance racial equity in housing. The current program builds 35 new homes and rehabilitates 15 homes each year, and then sells those homes to low-income clients at an affordable rate. TCHFH aims to increase access to affordable and safe housing for families with an income between 30% and 80% of the median income. 
 

Reading Corps trains tutors to evaluate student performance in reading and literacy growth. Tutors deliver research-based literacy interventions for students at-risk of reading failure in pre-kindergarten through third grade. Within the Reading Corps program, an emphasis is placed on the early identification and delivery of supplemental preventive support to struggling readers.

Study Goals:
The purpose of this report is to summarize three research studies that were undertaken: 

The Corps Network (TCN) places AmeriCorps members with organizations and government agencies to contribute to environmental stewardship projects in communities across the country. TCN members build and maintain trails, campgrounds, boat docks, and other outdoor recreation facilities. They eliminate invasive species, remove hazardous fuels, and restore critical ecosystems and habitats at national and state forests and parks.

The Nevada Conservation Corps (NCC), a program of Great Basin Institute of University of Nevada, is an environmental service program dedicated to promoting field research and direct conservation service. The program supports Nevada’s communities and public lands through the deployment of forestry teams to mitigate fire threats, reduce the spread of invasive species, and restore and re-designate trails. Members perform environmental stewardship, natural resource monitoring, evaluation, and public outreach, while engaging in workforce development throughout the state.

Keystone SMILES AmeriCorps recruits, trains, develops, and engages AmeriCorps members to provide:

The CalSERVES AmeriCorps program is designed to improve academic achievement, resiliency, and school engagement for underserved students. The program provides students in elementary and middle school with individual and small-group tutoring and mentoring sessions during and after school, promoting improved fluency and mastery in math and literacy skills. Students receive 30 minutes of tutoring four days a week, as well as 90 minutes of mentoring per week.

The Washington Service Corps (WSC) is a multi-focus intermediary program. As part of the AmeriCorps network, WSC oversees a consortium of approximately 200 partner sites across Washington state, recruiting, placing, and training between 500 and 600 AmeriCorps members at these sites each year. WSC developed, tested, and evaluated an intervention intended to build the organizational capacity for program evaluation and performance measurement among partner sites.