From Shelter to Stability
AmeriCorps Week!
March 2013
AmeriCorps Week: March 11- 15, 2013
AmeriCorps engages more than 80,000 men and women in intensive service each year through thousands of nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and community and faith-based groups across the country. AmeriCorps members help communities tackle pressing problems while mobilizing more than 3.4 million volunteers for the organizations they serve. Members gain valuable professional, educational, and life benefits, and the experience has a lasting impact on the members and the communities they serve.
AmeriCorps Fast Facts
775,000 Number of people who have served as AmeriCorps members since 1994.
1 Billion Total number of hours served by AmeriCorps members since 1994.
3.5 million Number of disadvantaged youth tutored, mentored, or served by AmeriCorps
members in fiscal 2011.
3.4 million Number of community volunteers managed or mobilized by AmeriCorps
members in fiscal 2011.
$480 million Value of cash and in-kind donations leveraged by AmeriCorps members in
fiscal 2010.
15,000 Number of nonprofit, faith-based, and community organizations served by
AmeriCorps members.
$2.2 billion Total amount of Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards earned by AmeriCorps
members since 1994.
$7.6 billion Amount of AmeriCorps funds invested in nonprofit, educational, and faithbased
community groups since 1994.
We are proud to be part of AmeriCorps and grateful for the AmeriCorps members who are getting things done right here in our community. AmeriCorps members have made a tremendous impact in our community, allowing us to extend our services and better carry out our mission.
We currently have 11 AmeriCorps members who serve as warehouse assistants, client service assistants, student coordinators, classroom instructors, mentors and volunteer coordinators.