National Service Agency Announces 2010 AmeriCorps Grant Opportunity
The Corporation for National and Community Service has released the funding notice for its 2010 AmeriCorps grant competition, taking a key first step to implement the new direction for AmeriCorps envisioned by the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act.
"Over the past 15 years, AmeriCorps has helped communities across the nation address some of their most challenging problems," said Nicola Goren, Acting CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. "This funding opportunity launches an exciting new era of growth, innovation, and impact for AmeriCorps. Programs will focus not only on recruiting more members to serve but also on the impact service makes in the areas of education, the environment, health, veterans' services, and economic opportunity."
AmeriCorps Video and Photo Contest Winners Announced!
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced the winners of its 2009 AmeriCorps Video and Photo contest before hundreds of program directors gathered at the annual AmeriCorps grantee meeting in Washington, DC on September 17, 2009.
Linda Raynes, a second-year AmeriCorps member serving with Plus Time New Hampshire AmeriCorps, won first place for her video “Use These,” which highlights the ways AmeriCorps members change their communities through service. Sarah Bass, who served two AmeriCorps terms with Teach for America in Los Angeles, won first place in the photo division for her picture “Sowing Seeds of Hope", which captures the experience of AmeriCorps by showing the hands of a 12-year-old holding seeds of wheat before planting.
National Service Agency Opens AmeriCorps NCCC Campus in Vicksburg
Four years after Hurricane Katrina brought teams of AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) teams to the Gulf Coast to join in recovery efforts, the Corporation for National and Community Service opened the fifth NCCC campus in Vicksburg, MS with the induction of 160 Corps members on September 1, 2009.
“On behalf of all Mississippians, Marsha and I deeply appreciate the AmeriCorps members who came to help after Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in American history,” said Governor Haley Barbour. “Our state is now honored to host the newest AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps campus in Vicksburg. We welcome these outstanding, civic-minded young men and women, and know they will offer tremendous service to people in our region.”
