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.

The GOALS (Gain Opportunities to Achieve Lasting Success) program model is a strengths-based, family-centered intervention that motivates parents to use effective parenting practices in support of child competence. Focused on low-income families in Detroit, MI, GOALS was nested in a multi-agency integrated service delivery model.

The Bridges to Career Opportunities (BCO) model is a multi-component intervention that assists adults who are underemployed or unemployed in advancing in a career and obtaining a living wage. Created by the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), the BCO model has four components of service:

AmeriCorps developed this guide to disseminate the knowledge gained from the Scaling Evidence-Based Models (SEBM) project. The guide provides practical recommendations for how funders, including governmental agencies and philanthropic organizations, should think about and plan for scaling. This guide also highlights:

• How funders might better understand evidence of intervention effectiveness and readiness for organization and intervention scaling by undertaking a systematic process to assess scaling readiness of the interventions they fund.