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Innovative national service and fellowship programs focus creatively to solve serious social and environmental problems in our communities. At the same time, programs offer participants a chance to learn new technical and people skills, develop new social networks, and become part of a solution. Currently, there are hundreds of diverse service corps working around the [ READ MORE ]
The New Service podcast show features a service program tackling the challenges of college completion for students from low income families. Blue Engine is now accepting applications for its 2010-11 corps. In 2010, a new national service corps is getting off the ground. Blue Engine, based in New York City, aims to recruit a corps [ READ MORE ]
More stimulus-funded AmeriCorps members to hit the ground running. A partnership between the Missouri Department of Economic Development and AmeriCorps St. Louis — with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 — will put 32 AmeriCorps members on the ground throughout Missouri to assist job seekers visiting the state’s career centers. According [ READ MORE ]
Princeton will send admitted students out into the world for 9 months of international public service. This fall, Princeton's new Bridge Year Program aims to offer 20 admitted students a chance to live in a different culture, develop maturity and an international perspective, and a commitment to public service before coming back to Princeton to start their freshman year in the fall of 2010. The program will teach the participants about host country health and [ READ MORE ]
New short-term AmeriCorps programs, funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, are getting off the ground. President Obama signed his stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, into law on February 17th, 2009. It included additional $201 million in funding for the Corporation for National and Community Service for AmeriCorps State and National, and AmeriCorps VISTA programs. One example of a new stimulus-funded AmeriCorps program is the Oregon Community Action Corps — now accepting applications for 24 full-time AmeriCorps positions serving throughout the state of Oregon[ READ MORE ]
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