AmeriCorps Programs
AmeriCorps Members serve in local, community-based organizations, expanding their capacity to achieve their mission and building community involvement and support.
Recruiting local volunteers is one of the most important things AmeriCorps can do for your organization. Each AmeriCorps member typically adds twelve community volunteers from the community.
AmeriCorps members receive a modest living allowance, student-loan forbearance, health coverage, and child care for those who qualify.
After successfully completing their term of service, they receive an AmeriCorps Education Award . This award can be used to pay off qualified student loans or to finance college, graduate school, or vocational training at eligible institutions.
Under the Serve America Act changes, AmeriCorps members who are 55 years of age or older, can assign their education award to a child, grandchild, or foster child.
Between 1994 and 20120, more than 4,900 Maine residents have served more than 6.7 million hours and qualified for Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards totaling more than $14,900,000.
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To see where Maine AmeriCorps members serve, use this map.
To view a description of a particular program, click its name in the list below.
Organizations
- Community Resource Corps
Contact: Joely Ross
185 Lancaster Street
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: (207) 370-3936 - Emergency Response Corps
Contact: Billye Senecal
353 Cumberland Ave., PO Box 8600,
Portland, ME 04101
Phone: (207) 491-4915 - FoodCorps
Contact: Ellie Libby
University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Knox-Lincoln
377 Manktown Rd. Waldoboro, ME 04572
Phone: (207) 832-0343
Fax: (207) 832-0377 - Great Strides Rural Education Corps
Contact: Joely Ross
185 Lancaster St.
Portland, ME 04104
Phone: (207) 370-3936 - Habitat for Humanity
Contact: Kate Callahan
83 A, Bell St., Portland, ME 04103
Phone: (207) 772-2151 - Island Institute
Contact: Chris Wolff
386 Main St.
Rockland, ME 04841-3345
Phone: 207-594-9209 - Maine Conservation Corps
Contact: Linda Shapleigh
Maine Dept. of Conservation
Augusta, ME 04333-0124
Phone: (207) 624-6085, (800) 245-5627 - Penebscot Community Health Care-NACHC
Contact: Mary-Anne Saxl
103 Maine Ave
Bangor, ME 04402
Phone: (207) 992-9200 - Student Conservation Association
Contact: Kate Hagner
689 River Road
Charlestown, NH 03603-0550
Phone: (603) 543.1700 x133 - Teen Leadership and Career Corps
Contact: Lorinda Joy
PO Box 2067
Augusta, ME 04338
Phone: 207-588-1933
