More than 85, 000 individuals join AmeriCorps annually, totaling more than 500, 000 past and present members since 1994.

Grants assist these groups in recruiting, training and placing AmeriCorps members to meet critical community needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment.

AmeriCorps State and National members engage in direct service activities, such as after-school tutoring or homebuilding, and capacity-building activities, such as volunteer recruitment, for the organizations they serve.

After successfully completing their term of service, AmeriCorps State and National members may receive an Education Award of up to $ 5, 550.

Successes for individual AmeriCorps members include increasing their commitment to community service, increasing community-based activism, connection to their communities, knowledge of community problems, engagement in the political process, and voting participation.

The study further reported that 71 % of alumni were incentivized to join by the prospect of earning a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award ; 41 % of AmeriCorps members went on to receive a 4-year college degree within three years of entering AmeriCorps.

The following pledge is taken by AmeriCorps members, who promise to uphold the duties of their position, and reads as follows:

Those who supported changing the pledge argued that taking the new pledge would be voluntary for AmeriCorps members, and that it was similar to the pledge taken by all federal employees.

In the 2008 – 2009 program year, over 500 AmeriCorps members at affiliates all over the country will help build nearly 2, 000 houses and recruit and retain nearly 200, 000 community volunteers.

The AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon is an annual signature event that brings together AmeriCorps members and alumni in a week long blitz build.

More than 500 Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps National and AmeriCorps VISTA members from across the country came together to build, rehabilitate and repair more than 20 homes.

After successfully completing a term of service, all AmeriCorps NCCC members are enrolled in the National Service Trust and are eligible to receive a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award.

Park staff, AmeriCorps members, and Fort Delaware Society volunteers interpret the roles of people who were at the fort during the Civil War.

As of May 2006, AmeriCorps reported that it would continue to send relief to affected areas.

A Segal AmeriCorps Education Award can be used to pay education costs at qualified institutions of higher education, for educational training, or to repay qualified student loans.

" The city is also home to a federally sponsored AmeriCorps program called the Sycamore Service Corps.

The state park system also hosts an AmeriCorps chapter, called AmeriCorps Florida State Parks.

AmeriCorps provided fiscal and personnel to support the start-up of innovative new national programs, including Public Allies and Teach For America.

The council and office were also involved with U. S. federal government service programs and provided new support for existing programs such as the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps and Senior Corps.

According to the AmeriCorps website, since the creation of AmeriCorps in 1993 more than 250, 000 individuals across the United States have served hundreds of communities in every state of the nation.

A USA Freedom Corps Network and online clearinghouse promoted individual volunteer service opportunities within the United States and abroad and connected Americans to opportunities to serve in federal programs, such as AmeriCorps, Peace Corps and Senior Corps or to find local service opportunities by zip code and interest.

National Civilian Community Corps ( NCCC ), or AmeriCorps NCCC is an AmeriCorps program that engages 18 – to 24-year-olds in team-based national and community service in the United States.

* Virginia Community Corps, an AmeriCorps state program in Virginia, United States

AmeriCorps State operates through Service Commissions in each state, such as Volunteer Florida and the Mississippi Commission for Volunteer Service ; South Dakota is the only state without a Service Commission.

An AmeriCorps team was sent to the city to help organize and participate in disaster relief.

Another similar program is the National Civilian Community Corps, part of the AmeriCorps program, a team-based national service program to which 18-to 24-year-olds dedicate 10 months of their time annually.

WCC is a part of the AmeriCorps program.

The catchphrase became especially known and popular after being used by President George W. Bush in a speech to AmeriCorps volunteers and during his 2002 State of the Union Address.

Recently, she has been criticized for her idea in A Suggestion on the Negro Problem to enlist a civic army of blacks like an AmeriCorps to provide jobs and discipline.

This same location is also the Northeast Campus of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps, a residential national service program which recruits young Americans between the ages of 18 to 24 to perform community service in various locations in the country.

The interns are provided with a stipend, housing ( in most cases ), and an AmeriCorps Stipend.

SCA was founded before Peace Corps, City Year and AmeriCorps.

AmeriCorps is a U. S. federal government program that was created under President Bill Clinton by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 and later expanded by 50 percent under President George W. Bush.

AmeriCorps is a division of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees the Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America.

Research has illustrated that AmeriCorps programs have a variety of effects on civic education, education, and public service.

AmeriCorps is headed by Bill Basl.

AmeriCorps State and National is the largest of the AmeriCorps programs, and provides grants to local and national organizations and agencies, including faith-based and community organizations, higher education institutions, and public agencies.

Thousands of organizations across the nation have been awarded AmeriCorps State and National grants since the program's inception.

Cities and counties interested in industrial development would do well in the months ahead to keep their eyes peeled toward the 13 northwest Georgia counties that are members of the Coosa Valley Area Planning and Development Commission.

His parents talked seriously and lengthily to their own doctor and to a specialist at the University Hospital -- Mr. McKinley was entitled to a discount for members of his family -- and it was decided it would be best for him to take the remainder of the term off, spend a lot of time in bed and, for the rest, do pretty much as he chose -- provided, of course, he chose to do nothing too exciting or too debilitating.

It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.

Seeing him in that condition, and about to enter the hall where the King, the Queen, the whole royal family and all the members of the highest aristocracy would be present, Grimm and the Abbe Raynal and others tried to stop him.

It would seem necessary that members of this population provide support for one another since it is not provided by the larger society.

In general, members of NAIRO would certainly want a child admitted to a school nearest his residence or within his residence zone.

Rebs who owned slaves occasionally would include in their letters admonitions or greetings to members of the Negro community.

It would hardly be an exaggeration to say that ninety per cent of the energy of most churches -- whether in terms of finance or spiritual concern -- is poured into the private and domestic interests of the members.

Barber, who is in his 13th year as a legislator, said there `` are some members of our congressional delegation in Washington who would like to see it ( the resolution ) passed ''.

He said he would not be surprised if some of the more than 30 members of the group are interested in running on the required non-partisan ballot for posts on the charter commission.

Each of the organization's ninety-nine members would get two professional posts, such as political affairs officer, a department head or an economist, to start.

Board members indicated Monday night this would be done by an advisory poll to be taken on Nov. 15, the same date as a $581,000 bond election for the construction of three new elementary schools.

The appointment was announced at a news conference at which Skorich said he would retain two members of Shaw's staff -- Jerry Williams and Charlie Gauer.

`` When they became members of the city police narcotics unit '', Sokol said, `` they were told they would have to get to know certain areas of Chicago in which narcotics were sold and they would have to get to know people in the narcotics racket.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

These members would then unthaw the rest of the personnel.

This means that during the summer season, the younger members of the family, teenage boys and girls, would take the cattle to graze on the hillside and they would stay in the houses of the Deserted Village.

This strategy was a success, and Knox and Reed were able to fend off all lawsuits that would have placed blame upon the club's members.

However, such a sentence would most likely be recast as the team members take their seats.

This behavior would frequently lead to conflict between Athens and the less powerful members of the League.

The Athenian politician Aristides would spend the rest of his life occupied in the affairs of the alliance, dying ( according to Plutarch ) a few years later in Pontus, whilst determining what the tax of new members was to be.

) Hilton also claims a Roman Catholic monarch would therefore be unable to be crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury and points to the examples of European states that have similar religious provisions for their monarchs: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden, whose constitutions compel their monarchs to be Lutherans, the Netherlands, the constitution of which insists its monarchs be members of the Protestant House of Orange, and Belgium, which has a constitution that provides for the succession to be through Roman Catholic houses.

Most of the original societies were fully terminating, where they would be dissolved when all members had a house: the last of them, First Salisbury, was wound up in March 1980.