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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The DOGE cuts continue to hit the Quad-Cities. Last week we learned about AmeriCorps workers having their contracts ended immediately. What we don't know is why. AmeriCorps has served the United ...

The Job Placement AmeriCorps is a one-year position responsible for managing the provision of services to assist new and recently arrived refugee clients to attain self-sufficiency through employment.

Q. I’m currently working at a nonprofit through AmeriCorps, and part of my job includes managing my team’s publications and engaging community members in service, as well as securing in-kind donations ...

A program that assists unemployed local residents prepare for and find work is being threatened by potential budget cuts in Congress. The U.S. House and Senate could deal a severe financial blow to ...

As an important deadline nears, the city of Westminster is having trouble finding someone to fill an AmeriCorps position with the Office of Housing and Community Development. “We’ve been advertising ...