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Every AmeriCorps Experience Tells a Story

AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers represent the best of America, tirelessly serving people and communities across the country.

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"I believe AmeriCorps helped bring out the best out of my leadership and teamwork skills. I wouldn't trade my service and time with these 4-H'ers or my supervisor for anything.”

Bailey Ballard

AmeriCorps member

"Serving has become an effective way to help save lives in the community I grew up in. It taught me the importance of giving back to a community that has provided me so much while growing up."

Kenneth Marks

AmeriCorps member

I believe that you can never do too much for someone or care too much. I don't want excessive recognition for my actions. Instead, I want people to know I care, and I will do what I can to ensure their safety and health.

Jewel Brown

AmeriCorps Seniors volunteer

Due to the complexity of factors involved in the opioid crisis, a multisector response is needed for effective intervention with collaboration among a broad array of stakeholders to identify strategies, and plan and implement changes.

Virginia Commonwealth Univ.

This research will inform understandings of key pathways to civic engagement and culturally responsive and appropriate processes for developing healthy civic and ethnic identities amongst dispersed refugee communities in the United States.

University of Wisconsin Whitewater

This project engages residents as leaders in understanding and acting on the local definition of civic engagement and the community’s desire to strategically foster equitable development.

University of Pittsburgh

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