Information on National Service

• Civic Marshall Plan to Build a Grad Nation by America’s Promise Alliance, Civic Enterprises, and Johns Hopkins University’s Everyone Graduates Center

• How Quickly Can Service Grow? by Shirley Sagawa (Center for American Progress, February 2010)

• National Service and Youth Unemployment: Strategies for Job Creation Amid Economic Recovery by Melissa Boteach, Joy Moses, and Shirley Sagawa (Center for American Progress, November 2009).

• The Corporation for National and Community Service has released new information on volunteering in America, showing that volunteerism is on the rise despite the economic downtown and a concurrent decrease in charitable financial giving.  Visit www.VolunteeringInAmerica.gov to learn more about volunteering and service across the country, including breakdowns by state and cities/towns. Click here for the report summary.

• The Generation Iowa Commission initiated by Governor Chet Culver, which aims to attract and retain young professionals in Iowa, released a recent report recommending that Iowa target its service-minded young people by expanding education benefits for AmeriCorps members.

• Executive Summary and Detailed Recommendations for growing national service, collected from practitioners and submitted to the 2008 presidential candidates.

• Serving America: A National Service Agenda for the Next Decade by Shirley Sagawa (September 2007)

• CRS Report on the Corporation for National and Community Service and FY07 funding

• Click here to download an AmeriCorps fact sheet prepared for AmeriCorps Week, May 13-17, 2007

• What is AmeriCorps

• About the Corporation for National and Community Service

• The full text of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993

• Corporation for National and Community Service funding opportunities and guidelines

• Issue brief on the Public-Private Partnership fostered by national service

• The post-service AmeriCorps Education Award

• Overview of Federal Support for National Service from 1930s to the Present

• Summary of National Service Programs by State

• SERVEnet.org

• Connect with AmeriCorps Alums

Program Impact Studies

• Click here to access all research commissioned by the Corporation for National and Community Service, including the AmeriCorps longitudinal study, a rigorous evaluation which demonstrates that AmeriCorps has long-term positive impacts on members’ years after they serve.

• Click here to access a continually updated Catalog of National Service Research. You can submit additional research to be cataloged by sending an email to info@voicesforservice.org.

Exemplary AmeriCorps Members
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• Thaddeus Claiborne, Jumpstart

• Katherine Clements, Jumpstart

• Peter Dieser, Washington Conservation Corps

• Greg Heinrich, AmeriCorps Alums

• Patricia Jarnot, West Seneca AmeriCorps Emergency Response Team

• Peter Ostroske, AmeriCorps* NCCC

• Patrice Pennington, Public Allies

• Amanda Reese, AmeriCorps* NCCC (posthumously)

• Carrie Smith, West Seneca AmeriCorps Response Team

• Kristina Smith, City Year Louisiana

• Neale Smith, Habitat for Humanity

• Pete Salazar, US Veterans Initiative

• Kimberly Walker, on behalf of the entire Mississippi HealthCorps