A longstanding community service program funded through the federal government is the latest to be cut by the Department of ...

Washington, DC, June 20, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, released three reports evaluating the NCCC program. Through these reports, ...

WASHINGTON — One of the largest federal civil service organizations has let go of scores of young volunteers, The Post has learned — shortly after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) ...

In 2015, just four months after graduating from Concord High, I arrived in California to begin a year of service to my country. Not through the military or college, but through AmeriCorps National ...

DENVER — Mary Kate Sweeney had just returned to Denver with her AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team, preparing to deploy to Oklahoma for a new service project, when she learned ...

FILE - As President Barack Obama and former President Bill Clinton mark the 20th anniversary of the AmeriCorps national service program, hundreds of new volunteers are sworn in for duty at a ceremony, ...

AmeriCorps members Sam Pierce and Isla Lyons join a service project at Bonnyvale Environmental Education Center in West Brattleboro, Vt., to pull invasive plants. Credit: Erin Riley / Vermont Housing ...

Gen Z is going to be the generation that changes the world — and it’s happening right here in Gypsum. A group of eight AmeriCorps NCCC volunteers rolled into town Jan. 8, ready to help build Habitat ...

This March, I was one of 75 AmeriCorps NCCC members to complete my service term with the inaugural Forest Corps cohort. In the last nine months, I’ve fortified lands against the threat of forest fires ...

Local projects and programs are feeling the strain of cuts to AmeriCorps. "Essentially, statewide, the Americorps program was cut without notice," said Kassia Randzio, development and operations ...