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YEAR OF SERVICE OPPORTUNITIES
AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs
that engage more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to
meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the
environment. AmeriCorps members serve through more than 2,100 nonprofits,
public agencies, and faith-based organizations. They tutor and mentor youth,
build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams,
run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disasters.
Created in 1993, AmeriCorps is part of the Corporation for National and
Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and Learn and Serve
America. Together these programs engage more than 2 million Americans of all
ages and backgrounds in service each year.
City Year
An Action Tank
for national service, City Year seeks to demonstrate, improve and promote
the concept of national service as a means for building a stronger
democracy. An 'action tank' is both a program and a 'think tank' -
constantly combining theory and practice to advance new policy ideas, make
programmatic breakthroughs, and bring about major changes in society.
City Year's
vision is that one day, the most commonly asked question of a young person
will be, "Where are you going to do your service year?"
Green Corps
Green Corps is a non-profit Field School for
Environmental Organizing, founded by leading environmentalists in 1992 to
identify and train the next generation of environmental leaders. Our
program includes intensive classroom training, hands-on experience running
urgent environmental and public health campaigns, and placement in permanent
leadership positions with leading environmental groups.
Teach for America
Dedicate two years of your life to teaching lower
socio-economic students in either rural or urban settings to help these
students achieve academic success.
AVODAH– The Jewish Service Corps
AVODAH: The Jewish Service Corps is a one-year program
that combines front-line anti-poverty work in New York City and Washington
DC with Community building and Jewish study.
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