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Celebrate Maine AmeriCorps Week!
AmeriCorps Week is an opportunity to shine a spotlight on the work done by AmeriCorps in communities across Maine and the country. Join the Maine Commission for Community Service, the Corporation for National and Community Service and Maine AmeriCorps Alums as we celebrate AmeriCorps Week in Maine!
What Is AmeriCorps Week?
AmeriCorps Week is a recruitment and recognition event designed to bring more Americans into service, salute AmeriCorps members and alums for their powerful impact, and thank the community partners who make AmeriCorps possible. AmeriCorps Week provides an opportunity for AmeriCorps members, alums, grantees, program partners, and friends to shine a spotlight on the work done by members in communities across the country -- and to motivate more AmeriCorps to join AmeriCorps or volunteer in their communities. Spreading the word about AmeriCorps is especially important now, as the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act has put AmeriCorps on a path to grow to 250,000 members annually by 2017. The fourth annual AmeriCorps Week will take place May 8-15, 2010.
What is AmeriCorps?
AmeriCorps provides opportunities for 85,000 Americans to give back in an intensive way to their communities and country each year. It consists of three main programs: AmeriCorps State and National, whose members serve with more than 1,840 national and local nonprofit and community groups; AmeriCorps VISTA, through which members serve full time fighting poverty; and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps), a team-based residential program for young adults 18-24 who carry out projects in public safety, the environment, youth development, and disaster relief and preparedness.
For 17 years, AmeriCorps members have served Maine communities. They continue to do a wide range of things: They recruit, train, and supervise community volunteers, tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, help communities respond to disasters, and build the capacity of nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining, among many other activities.
What is AmeriCorps Alums?
The mission of AmeriCorps Alums is to fully realize the potential of national service alumni as leaders in communities.Our goal is to get alumni connected, equipped and engaged in order to foster their natural leadership drive and potential. Maine AmeriCorps Alums is a community for service-minded individuals based in Portland. We engage in service projects, host social events, and promote national service. Join us for info on events, networking, job leads, service projects, volunteer opportunities, and to be a part of a community of change!