AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps is a network of local, state, and national service programs that connects more than 75,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet our country’s critical needs in disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families.

AmeriCorps members serve with nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and faith-based and community organizations. Since 1994, more than 1 million men and women have provided needed assistance to millions of Americans across the nation through their AmeriCorps service.

AmeriCorps opens the door for citizens to serve in a variety of ways. Through their service and the volunteers they mobilize, AmeriCorps members address critical needs in communities throughout America, including:

• Tutoring and mentoring disadvantaged youth;
• Emergency response;
• Fighting illiteracy;
• Improving health services;
• Building affordable housing;
• Teaching computer skills;
• Protecting and restoring the environment;
• Managing or operating after-school programs;
• Helping communities respond to disasters;
• Providing services and support to veterans, members of the armed forces, and family members of deployed military personnel
• Building organizational capacity.

Full-time members who complete their service earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award of $6,495 (October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022) to pay for college, graduate school, or to pay back qualified student loans. Members who serve part-time receive a partial Award. Some AmeriCorps members may also receive a modest living allowance during their term of service. 

AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service, an independent federal agency created to connect Americans of all ages and backgrounds with opportunities to give back to their communities and their nation. AmeriCorps is made up of three programs: AmeriCorps State and National; AmeriCorps VISTA; and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps). The Corporation also oversees Senior Corps. Together these programs engage more than 1.5 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service each year.

• Find AmeriCorps programs in Washington
• Learn more about AmeriCorps member benefits, programs in Washington, and how to apply
• How to host an AmeriCorps program
• Resources for AmeriCorps subgrantee organizations, including program handbook, and meeting materials