The five AmeriCorps NCCC regions – Atlantic, North Central, Pacific, Southern, and Southwest – routinely collect feedback from their regional sponsors to learn about their perspectives and experiences with the NCCC program and teams working at sponsor organizations’ service projects. These findings are used to make evidence-informed program improvements.

This report describes initial findings from a national evaluation of how AmeriCorps’ National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) seeks to promote leadership skills and qualities among members. With data from a baseline survey administered between January 2020 and April 2021, this report details characteristics of a sample of NCCC members at the time they began their service. Data were also collected from a matched comparison group of candidates who applied and were later invited to serve with NCCC, but who did not accept.

Key Findings Include:

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 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.