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 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:

The Community Technology Empowerment Project (CTEP) helps increase work-readiness skills among new immigrants and members of low-income communities in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area. The program provides participants with the latest technology skills to help them gain sustainable employment and improve their civic, educational, and social opportunities. AmeriCorps members provide CTEP participants one-on-one mentoring and training to improve their digital skills and technology literacy.

Opportunity youth often face a large range of complex issues, such as homelessness, chemical dependency, mental health issues, learning disabilities, and health disparities perpetrated by a range of systemic issues. To address these issues in Minnesota, Youthprise partnered with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Office of Youth Development, Search Institute, and MENTOR Minnesota to develop a technical assistance and program enhancement model, Opportunity Reboot.

The City of Lakes (CoL) AmeriCorps program seeks to increase the academic language proficiency of long-term English language learners (LTELs) in participating Minneapolis middle schools by providing tutoring, enrichment, and parent engagement activities designed specifically for middle-school LTELs.

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City of Lakes AmeriCorps (CoL) is a partnership between Minneapolis Community Education and the Minneapolis Public Schools’ (MPS) Multilingual Department. The mission of CoL is to provide Long-Term English Learners (LTEL) access to grade-level content through dedicated and rigorous language learning support. Their mission for members is to build a learning community through service, reflection and inquiry.

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The Minnesota Reading Corps (MN RC) program is a statewide AmeriCorps early literacy initiative. It aims to foster early literacy skills of children to ensure reading proficiency by the end of third grade. MN RC and its host organization, Reading & Math, Inc. (RMI), aim to address the resource gaps within under-resourced schools by bringing AmeriCorps members into preschool (Pre-K) classrooms to provide literacy enrichment and tutoring services for specific at-risk students.

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