Keyword: NCCC
The AmeriMarriage Diaries: Libby and Bobby Hite
By
Greg Tucker
The cliché is that opposites attract, but we've learned that some members of our national service family found enough in common to build relationships that led all the way to the altar. These are their stories.
Names:
Libby and Bobby Hite (Libby, currently serving as a Corporation for National and Community Service state program specialist in New Hampshire, provided the answers.)
Length of Marriage:
1 year, 6 months
Number of Children:
One furry, four-legged friend – a black lab named Cash.
Where did you meet?
AmeriCorps NCCC - Denver, CO. We served as Team Leaders together.
What attracted you to your mate?
From day one we made each other laugh. Laughter can get us through anything.
What was your first AmeriDate? We are not quite sure when our first date actually was. However, we can be confident that we were probably planting a tree, building a house, and most definitely sporting some khaki BDUs.
Favorite moment of your AmeriYear?
How can I pick just one?! Joining AmeriCorps NCCC was one of the best decisions I've made for so many reasons. A very memorable moment of service was when our team watched a woman in Monmouth, IL, leave her house unassisted for the first time in eight years because of a wheel chair ramp we built. It was totally worth the sweat and hard work put in to see her face that day.
How have you continued your service?
Service is and will be a large part of our new family. To kick off our lives together, we hosted a service project for 50 family and friends as a pre-wedding event at Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center. Our families were surprised at first that they were picking up loppers and hand saws instead of toasting mimosas at a brunch, but in the end, everyone had fun, and it is what they still talk about today! We had our fellow AmeriCorps Alums polish off their “A”s and serve as Team Leaders for the day. And of course, we incorporated one of the most important things when it comes to service – free T-shirts!
Keywords:
CNCS   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
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Posted on
2/14/2013
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The chance to get in on the ground floor and build something new attracted recent college grad Ben Barron to the FEMA Corps AmeriCorps NCCC unit. Last fall his class went to work with the Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery effort in New York, where he learned a lot about himself and the strength of the human spirit.
Keywords:
FEMA Corps   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
Huricane Sandy   
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Posted on
2/8/2013
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This weekend was a major moment for national service, and I want to share some of the many highlights that inspired me.
Keywords:
MLKDay   
CNCS   
AmeriCorps   
Senior Corps   
NCCC   
City Year   
Wendy Spencer   
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Posted on
1/24/2013
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We continue to track news coverage of the role national service participants have played in the Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery effort for the last few months. This week, our collection of stories includes one about two AmeriCorps members who spent their holiday away from home, helping people in New York and New Jersey recover from the storm.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
FEMA Corps   
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Posted on
1/10/2013
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This week, nearly 100 AmeriCorps members boarded planes from Sacramento, CA, to New Jersey and New York where they will help residents affected by Hurricane Sandy rebuild homes, remove debris, and manage volunteers. Southwest Airlines’ decision to donate travel to these young leaders made this deployment possible.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
Disaster Recovery   
Sacramento   
California,   
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Posted on
1/9/2013
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Last month, Corporation for National and Community Service staff visited several sites in New York and New Jersey where national service members were helping with the Hurricane Sandy recovery effort. Today, we'd like to share two of the videos from that trip.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
CNCS   
AmeriCorps   
NCCC   
New York   
New Jersey   
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Posted on
1/2/2013
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We’ve been tracking news coverage of the role our national service participants have played in the Hurricane Sandy relief and recovery effort for the last few months. Here are some of the latest stories, including two personal reflections by AmeriCorps members.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
FEMA Corps   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
CNCS   
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Posted on
12/28/2012
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Growing up, I was fortunate enough to live a different experience than most. My parents were treasure hunters and I spent a majority of my childhood on their boat traveling in the Bahamas. Looking back, I almost feel as if I took those years a bit for granted; I never would have thought that the very boat I grew up on would be lifted and dropped in someone else’s yard. But when Hurricane George came through in 1998, that’s what happened. Little did I know, 14 years later, I would be on the other side of disaster recovery.
Keywords:
Disaster Recovery   
Hurricane Sandy   
FEMA Corps   
CNCS   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
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Posted on
12/26/2012
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Millions of Americans will be making the journey to their respective hometowns this weekend to celebrate the holidays with friends and family. Today and tomorrow, a 26-member AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) team will leave Denver, CO, for the East Coast to spend their holidays helping families recover from Hurricane Sandy.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
CNCS   
HOOPA   
Denver   
Colorado   
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Posted on
12/21/2012
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When AmeriCorps NCCC member Melissa Ettman was assigned to lead a Sacramento, CA-based team to help with the Hurricane Sandy cleanup in New York and New Jersey, she was familiar with many of the areas affected by the storm. In fact, her 87-year-old grandmother on Long Island was affected by the hurricane and had to live without electricity for a week.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
NECHAMA   
UWS   
Disaster Recovery   
Washington Convervation Corps   
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Posted on
12/18/2012
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Civic leaders, community groups, and elected officials joined the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) today for a dedication of the new AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) Atlantic Region Campus in the former Sacred Heart of Mary School of Baltimore, MD.
Keywords:
AmeriCorps NCCC   
UWS   
Maryland   
CNCS   
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Posted on
12/17/2012
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As Hurricane Sandy efforts transition from emergency response to long-term recovery, AmeriCorps members are providing vital leadership in communities up and down the East Coast.
Keywords:
Disaster   
CNCS   
AmeriCorps   
Hurricane Sandy   
NCCC   
Washington Conservation Corps   
NECHAMA   
New York Cares   
Points of Light   
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Posted on
12/13/2012
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The Hurricane Sandy recovery continues with more than 1,660 national service participants deployed in response to the storm and 715 currently serving on the ground and working with the storm’s victims. At this time 407 members of FEMA Corps, an AmeriCorps NCCC unit, have deployed or are being re-routed to New York and New Jersey to support FEMA Emergency Response operations in those areas.
Keywords:
Hurricane Sandy   
Disaster   
Habitat for Humanity   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
FEMA Corps   
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Posted on
12/11/2012
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Did you know that some of the programs under the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) banner have been in existence for nearly 50 years? We’ve created a new national service timeline to show how we got to where we are today.
Keywords:
UWS National Service   
CNCS   
AmeriCorps   
NCCC   
VISTA   
RSVP   
SIF   
FEMA Corps   
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Posted on
12/3/2012
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As the Hurricane Sandy recovery continues, the Serve.gov blog will highlight some of the best stories from the field. Today we have a personal reflection from AmeriCorps NCCC member Nicole Wojcik, who is serving with team Delta 10 and staffing a donation hotline in New Jersey.
Keywords:
Disaster Response   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
Hurricane Sandy   
Tribal CCC   
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Posted on
11/28/2012
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The transient nature of military life can make life difficult for students in military families, and many are stationed at Fort Leonard Wood for less than two years or experience parental deployment. They often have challenges with making new friends, fitting into social groups, and connecting with the community.
Keywords:
Service Impact Awards   
Veterans and Military Families   
AmeriCorps   
VISTA   
NCCC   
Education   
Missouri   
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Posted on
11/27/2012
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President Obama visited with members of FEMA Corps, a unit of AmeriCorps NCCC, during his November 15 trip to survey the Hurricane Sandy damage in Staten Island, NY. A small contingent of the 428 FEMA Corps members currently serving in New York and New Jersey met the President at a Staten Island Disaster Recovery Center as the scene was broadcast across the nation.
Keywords:
Disaster Repsonse   
Hurricane Sandy   
FEMA Corps   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
President Obama   
New York   
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Posted on
11/16/2012
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The work continues on the Hurricane Sandy recovery front in New York, New Jersey, and across the Northeast as approximately 1,200 national service members have been deployed in response to the storm. Read on to see some of the stories about service and volunteerism in the superstorm’s wake.
Keywords:
Disaster   
Hurricane Sandy   
AmeriCorps   
RSVP   
NCCC   
FEMA Corps   
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Posted on
11/15/2012
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My name is Rebecca Lange and I am a proud alumna of the second class of AmeriCorps NCCC. I served at the Central Region campus in Denver, CO, from 1995-1996, a wide-eyed high school graduate looking for an adventure, a unique way to serve, and beyond excited to begin what I hoped to be an awesome life.
Keywords:
Veterans and Military Families   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
Colorado   
Air Force   
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Posted on
11/9/2012
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Last Friday, I had the opportunity to meet the second group of the inaugural class of FEMA Corps during their induction ceremony in Vinton, Iowa. Soon, this group will join their fellow FEMA Corps inductees in regional offices and joint field offices around the country. Similar to the induction ceremony in Vicksburg, I couldn’t help but come away from this ceremony energized, knowing this group of young people is sharply focused on making a difference in their world – particularly in the lives of disaster survivors.
Keywords:
FEMA Corps   
CNCS   
FEMA   
Iowa   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
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Posted on
10/11/2012
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When I served on Disaster Response assignment with AmeriCorps NCCC in 1998, I had no idea that I was starting on the Emergency Management career path. That one month on assignment in the San Francisco area was an amazing experience. Helping with their flood response in the area of logistics taught me about all of the coordination that is needed in a disaster response.
Keywords:
AmeriCorps NCCC   
American Red Cross   
AmeriCorps Alums   
Texas   
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Posted on
9/26/2012
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On May 22, 2011, an EF-5 tornado struck my hometown of Joplin, Missouri. Nearly every resident was affected. The tornado destroyed approximately 18,000 vehicles, 7,000 homes, 5,000 businesses, and took the lives of 162 people, including two of my high school classmates.
Keywords:
FEMA Corps   
AmeriCorps   
NCCC   
Disaster   
Joplin   
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Posted on
9/19/2012
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I am truly humbled and honored to receive recognition as a Champion of Change. My first lessons regarding the importance of service to both the nation and local communities came observing my parents.
Keywords:
AmeriCorps NCCC   
White House   
Champions of Change   
American Red Cross   
Xpost   
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Posted on
9/17/2012
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In the aftermath of September 11th, we came together as a country to show that we were there for each other. This year’s National Day of Service and Remembrance once again reminded us of that unity.
Keywords:
Wendy Spencer   
September11   
Volunteer   
United We Serve   
Veterans   
AmeriCorps   
NCCC   
News   
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Posted on
9/14/2012
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Today marks a historic chapter in the field of disaster services at the Corporation for National and Community Service as the nation's first 240 FEMA Corps members were sworn into service at an induction ceremony in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Keywords:
FEMA Corps   
AmeriCorps   
Vicksburg   
NCCC   
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Posted on
9/13/2012
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For Tina Kiehn, an AmeriCorps NCCC member in Aurora, IL, the morning of September 11, 2001, started out as a day like any other. She was at her service site, helping a class of first graders adjust to the new school year. With summer just behind them, Kiehn and her team expected a normal daily schedule: classes, recess, homework help.
Keywords:
AmeriCorps NCCC   
September11   
Habitat for Humanity   
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Posted on
9/10/2012
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Olive Eckstein was making copies of her resume at a Kinko's in Queens on the morning of September 11, 2001. After serving for a year with AmeriCorps NCCC, she was looking for a job in her native New York.
Keywords:
AmeriCorps   
September11   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
New York   
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Posted on
9/7/2012
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The London 2012 Summer Olympics opens tonight, and we’re feeling the Olympic spirit. With that in mind, we asked visitors to the AmeriCorps Facebook page which events would be included in an AmeriCorps Summer Games. As you might imagine, we received some mighty interesting responses.
Keywords:
AmeriCorps   
AmeriCorps NCCC   
AmeriCorps VISTA   
summer olympics   
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Posted on
7/27/2012
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Stephen Packard, 24, could have taken his degree in Economics from the University of Connecticut and found a comfortable desk job. Instead, he opted for a more adventurous path when he joined AmeriCorps NCCC. Never did he imagine he'd one day be working on the front lines of Colorado's biggest wildfire in history, sleeping just feet from the flames.
Keywords:
Disaster   
Colorado   
AmeriCorps   
NCCC   
Wildfire   
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Posted on
7/4/2012
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To mark the one-year anniversary of the May 22 Joplin tornado, we'll be featuring a variety of content on the serve.gov blog, including Q&As with those who served in the community, like this one.
Keywords:
Joplin   
Disaster   
AmeriCorps   
AmeriCorpsNCCC   
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Posted on
5/20/2012
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