MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Federal, state and local officials announced nearly $6 million to help community and public health organizations after two years of the pandemic has strained the workforce for ...

Back in the halcyon days of 2008, Barack Obama talked a lot about national service. He famously proposed a plan to double the Peace Corps and triple AmeriCorps. Though the Peace Corps didn’t get quite ...

Annie Friesen is one of two employees at Bartlett Arboretum that were funded by the AmeriCorps program and now funding for AmeriCorps jobs has been cut. AmeriCorps is a volunteer stipend program that ...

Serve Wisconsin has launched a statewide member recruitment campaign for Americorps. The “Stand Up, Step Up” campaign calls for motivated people who want to serve their community. AmeriCorps is a ...

Hundreds of AmeriCorps members in Iowa are scrambling for housing and jobs after the federal government abruptly terminated funding for the program on Monday. The cuts, stemming from a decision by the ...

Domingo Morales grew up knowing only inner-city poverty. Not long after entering adulthood, he realized his life was in a spin cycle -- working menial jobs to keep food on the table for him and his ...

When the order rescinding federal funding this year for AmeriCorps dropped on April 15, 568 people doing a wide array of service work stopped for at least 15 Iowa nonprofit, faith-based and community ...

AmeriCorps-VISTA, the federal anti-poverty volunteer program, launched its recruitment drive for volunteers who will assist Holocaust survivors. WASHINGTON (JTA) –AmeriCorps-VISTA, the federal ...

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly ...

Last week, AmeriCorps indicated it could only fund half the number of members it had bankrolled in recent years to build houses for the poor, teach reading in the inner city, and much else. The budget ...

The Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency’s recent move to dismantle AmeriCorps has had a particularly detrimental effect on Moab-area nonprofits, as well as the City of Moab, who ...