Posts Tagged ‘ education award ’
These days the fate of national service seems tied more than ever to the greater economic struggles our nation is facing. Citizens want to serve in their communities, and this week the Senate is debating legislation that would make it possible for more people to serve than ever before[ READ MORE ]
AmeriCorps’s conservation corps partners with American Humanics to offer corps members certification in nonprofit competency. Also note that AmeriCorps*NCCC has new deadlines: April 1 (summer class) and July 1 (winter class). Recognizing that a term of service is a valuable education, American Humanics (AH) offers AmeriCorps*NCCC corps members the opportunity to count service hours towards [ READ MORE ]
A former AmeriCorps*VISTA Leader and a current AmeriCorps*VISTA participate in Idealist.org's Grad School Blog Project Officially launched this week, a network of 12 bloggers — students, seekers, and admissions staff — are blogging about grad school. The project is a part of Idealist's Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center[ READ MORE ]
New teachers serve for two years in Chicago’s Catholic and charter schools, live in supportive inter-faith communities, earn alternative teacher certification, and work towards their education degree. The Inner-City Teaching Corps of Chicago aims to transform education in under-served communities and to empower children in urban schools. The organization houses two programs that create and [ READ MORE ]
Corps of recent law grads bring legal services to the poor Equal Justice Works, an organization that fosters the public interest law career pipeline, has recently sent off its newest AmeriCorps team to serve in 17 sites across the United States. The Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Program aims to increase the availability of pro bono legal services in under-served communities. The program achieves its goal by engaging recent law school graduates, who connect the dots among legal aid workers, law schools, law students, and clients in need[ READ MORE ]
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