Fifth Annual Event Comes at Time of Growing Demand for AmeriCorps

Washington DC -- Every day in communities across the nation, AmeriCorps members are improving schools, rebuilding after disasters, providing health services, preserving the environment, fighting poverty, and meeting other local needs.

The fifth annual AmeriCorps Week, taking place May 14-21, honors these public servants, who work quietly and without fanfare across the U.S. to improve the lives of millions of our most vulnerable citizens.

National Service Responds to Alabama Tornadoes

Washington, D.C. – As Alabama starts the rebuilding process from the deadly tornadoes that caused severe damage across the state, national service participants and volunteers are working hard to ensure affected communities get help needed to recover.

6 Institutions Receive Presidential Award, 641 Recognized Overall

Washington, D.C. – As colleges across the country honor their graduates this commencement season, the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today honored the nation's leading institutions of higher education for their support of volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement.

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Largest Gathering of Volunteer and Service Leaders Convenes in New Orleans, June 6-8

Washington, D.C. – With help already on the ground and more on the way, national service participants and volunteers have been working feverishly to help storm-ravaged towns in Mississippi rebuild and recover from the aftermath of last week's devastating tornadoes.

The tornadoes that ripped through the South on Wednesday, April 27 were the deadliest in 37 years, causing more than 300 deaths and billions dollars of damage. They came as communities in other states are reeling from the effects of flooding and severe storms.

Washington, D.C. – AmeriCorps members and Senior Corps volunteers are helping communities respond in the wake of the devastating tornadoes and flooding across the Southern and Midwestern United States.
 
The tornadoes that ripped through Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, Kentucky, and Virginia on Wednesday were the deadliest in 37 years, causing nearly 300 deaths and billions dollars of damage.
Secretary Vilsack Issues a Call to Action to Combat Hunger in America
 
 
 
WASHINGTON, April 29, 2011 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack joined hunger advocates today to issue a call to action to end hunger in America.

 

A Message from CEO Patrick Corvington: 

On Friday President Obama signed a Continuing Resolution that funds the federal government for the rest of fiscal year 2011.

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New Usher PSA Highlights Power of Youth Service

Washington, DC— The power of Georgia's youth to transform lives and communities will be in the national spotlight as more than 2,000 service-learning leaders descend on Atlanta for the 22nd Annual National Service-Learning Conference (NSLC).

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