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DC Commission on National and Community Service
December 15, 2000
Shirley Sagawa, Deputy Assistant to the President
White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
Dear Ms. Sagawa:
We are very proud and excited to announce the establishment of the DC Commission on National
and Community Service. The Commission will fund national service AmeriCorps programs and
engage citizens in service and volunteerism as a strategic resource to address problems facing
the communities of the nation's capital. We respectfully propose that you consider a White
House event to recognize the launch of the new DC Commission and the continued support of
President Clinton national and community service here in the District.
Working in collaboration with local volunteer agencies, businesses and community non-profits,
the Commission will develop a comprehensive vision and strategic plan for community service
initiatives in the District of Columbia. In addition, the Commission will incorporate the Mayor's
City-Wide Strategic Plan that resulted from Citizen Summit of 1999, into its funding decisions in
recognition of the fact that service and volunteerism are critical to revitalize District neighborhoods
and create greater opportunity for its youth.
We recognize the extraordinary time constraints on the President Clinton's schedule and thus are
willing to be flexible about the possible dates and times for this propsoed White House event.
Respectively,
Tracy Gray, Ph.D.
DC Commission Vice Chair
"Endres, Tom" <[email protected]>
07/14/99 02:29:48 PM
Record Type:
Record
To:
Shirley S. Sagawa/WHO/EOP
CC:
Subject: Case for Senior Expansion
This is the piece we are working on which I memtioned on the phone. The
Proposal section is where we are. Serveal thoughts are: 1) 1) Mark Freedman
has a new book coming out re: senior service and also is about to release a
study on service interests of boomers so one possibility would be to get
someone to propose expansion at this event (we've thought of VP but after
initial interest, idea's been dropped. 2) Another idea is to launch 4th NSSC
program (It's now or never since existing programs have had the first shot,
but with exception of SCP, aren't interested in change. 3) I don't think we
should link to AmeriCorps at this point but could get started via "H". 4)
It develops outside the federal arena, perhaps states or independent sector.
Comments appreciated. Let me know if there is a problem opening the
attachment.
Also, one development which I don't think we mentioned is that we now have
strong national non-profit Senior Corps Partners: Save the Children (FGP);
Child Welfare League/Generations United (FGP); Luthern Social Services of
America (SCP); Volunteers of America (RSVP); Points of Light Foundation
(RSVP) and BB/BS (RSVP). Each national oganization sponsors a number of
local affiliate projets. We are working with national offices to learn from
local affiliate experience and share thorughout national network. We are
also preparing national organizations for the Aging of America and its
impacts on their future. It's going great! We have seen some wonderful
article this month in their journals. I'm especially excited about BB/BS
because they are begining to see a whole new solution to their recruitment
problem.
One last thought. I scripted Harris for a meeting recently. The line that
stuck was: "If this century has given us the longevity revoluntion, then
the challenge of the next century is to use the additional 20 to 30 years of
productive living to wise use through service and for the benefit of
humankind." Thought you might enjoy that perspective.
<<GROWTHCASE.doc>>
A CASE FOR DEVELOPING POTENTIAL FOR SENIOR SERVICE
Demographic Revolution --- A Gerontological Explosion
America is in midst of a demographic revolution as a "gerontological explosion" begins to rock this
country. There are twice as many older adults today as there were thirty years ago, and the
number will more than double by 2030. Soon nearly a quarter of the American population
will be over 65, as the demographics of the entire nation come to approximate those of
Florida today.
The demographic bulge is not monolithic however. It comes with a younger and an older
component, each of which has very separate needs and applies very different pressures. The
young old component is upon us now and we must find immediate ways to engage this
growing segment of the population in productive activities which sustains them as active
contributing members of our society. Failure to plan and engage this group heightens the
potential that due to increasing inactivity, isolation, and loneliness; they will likely become
more frail and dependent sooner than necessary. All the while, their accumulated life skills
and abilities lost at a time which they are most needed to help renew America.
By 2020 when the "grandparent boom" is fully underway, more than 1 in every 6 Americans will be
65 and older, compared with 1 in 8 today. That is an increase of 20 million seniors. By the
middle of the 21st century, the number of Americans over 65 will exceed those under 18.
This aging of the baby boomer generation some 75 million strong --- is expected to have an
impact on our society of equal magnitude to the tidal wave of immigration at the turn of the
century. Just as their over whelming numbers redefined childhood and then adolescence in
the 20th century, the spike of senior citizens born between 1946 and 1964 will also remake
the final stage of life, forcing new answers to questions about success in later life, quality of
life, and medical needs with their costs.
Seniors --- America's Untapped Resource
America now possesses and soon will possess to an even greater degree -- not only the largest,
but the healthiest, best educated, and most vigorous collection of seniors in our nation's
history. Only 5 % of these older adults reside in nursing homes; fewer than 20% encounter
substantial disability, and more than 60% report no disability whatsoever. Currently, 2/3 of
seniors have completed high school and a 1/3 have attended college.
Spending nearly a third of their life in retirement, many in this growing pool of the "young old"
have time, skills and energy. Retirement frees up 25 hours per week for men and 18 for
women. This surplus of unstructured time is further bolstered by an increase in life
expectancy (from 48 in the 1900s to 76 today with predictions past 80 for the mid 21st
century) and an increase in early retirement (both voluntary and involuntary) In 1948,
90% of men between 55 and 64 were working; today only 67% are in the paid labor force.
Having realized the American dream, retirement is a second chance for the aging baby
boomers to give something back to their communities.
Research provides substantial evidence that productive engagement and social contact are linked to
prolonged physical and mental health. A 25 year National Institutes of Mental Health study
finds that "highly organized activity is the single strongest predictor, other than non
smoking, of longevity and vitality". Similarly, 55% of elder respondents to a Louis Harris
poll lament the loss of usefulness after retirement. Isolation and loss of purpose have been
shown to cause increased risk of deterioration, illness and untimely death. The fist two
result in premature dependency and rising cost of care.
It is no surprise that surveys show high levels of interest on the part of seniors in serving their
communities. According to the Independent Sector 1994 National Survey, when seniors 65
and over were asked to serve in the previous year, 82.4 percent did. Compared to the 35.7
percent who initiated the service themselves rather than in response to a call to serve, the
importance of an organized recruiting effort is evident.
Seniors: A Proven Resource in Serving and Meeting Community Needs
One of the most important public policy challenges as we enter the 21st century will be to tap the
vast productive and humanitarian potential germinating within retired and semi-retired
citizens. This is not a compassionate gesture toward the elderly, but one of considerable
urgency for our society. We are in no position to squander the time, talent, experience and
resources of our seniors at a juncture when so many social, educational, environmental and
other needs remain urgent and unmet. To plan for the Aging of America through
comprehensive public policy which balances the potential contribution of seniors against
their potential cost burden would not only be responsible and good policy, but enlightened
national interest.
National service by seniors is one of America's best kept secrets. It is also a secret that senior
service programs work and are cost effective:
Nearly 24,000 Foster Grandparents work to meet the needs of children at risk. The program is the
nation's largest, longest standing, and most effective mentoring program. With modernization the
programs potential in meeting the needs of children at risk in day care settings, head start centers
and schools unlimited.
Twelve thousand Senior Companions work to provide non-medical support to adults at risk of
being placed in nursing homes or dependent care facilities. This program provides a potential
framework for supporting the informal care giving system upon which long-term care services
primarily rest.
The Retired and Senior Volunteer Program provides opportunities for over 455,000 citizens 55+ to
contribute over 83 million hours of service directly related to education, the environment, public
safety, and critical unmet human needs.
Current Senior Corps efforts demonstrate the cost effectiveness, potential savings and multiplier
effect in using seniors to meet community needs. On the "senior side" as stated above,
seniors stay well longer. On the "service side", there is ample evidence that the programs of
the Senior Corps meet essential community needs:
*
Senior Companion Program. Since 1975, some 35 studies attest to its effectiveness.
Most recent include a 1994 look at Current and Future Roles of Senior Companions
in Home and Community-based Long Term Care by the Research Triangle Institute
which indicated that " Companions provided a high quality of care, as perceived by
clients and agencies Companions are client-oriented rather than simply task-
oriented they are age peers whose life experiences contribute to their services
they are trained and supervised".
Also in 1994, an evaluation of the Senior Companion and Visiting Nurse
Associations of America Public Private Partnership Program by the University of
Maryland Center on Aging indicated that " the overall advantage of having Senior
Companions as part of the health team was assisting the client in the prevention of
premature institutional and unnecessary health emergencies through regular
assessment of the client in the home as the eyes and ears of the Visiting Nurse
Health Team."
*
Foster Grandparent Program. A review of evaluations (some 31 studies have been
conducted on the program) provides similar testimony. A 1994 Evaluation Report
on the Foster Grandparent Program by the Office of Policy Research and
Evaluation of ACTION indicated that "more than 80% of station supervisors at
volunteer sites reported development of a sense of well-being, self-esteem, and
interpersonal and social skills in children served 70% reported improvements in
self-awareness, moral and ethical behavior, communication, language skills, self-
help,
eating and dressing and 50% reported improvements in basic academic skills
and physical and motor skills of the children served."
*
RSVP Program. A not yet released 1996 Evaluation of the RSVP Program by
WESTAT found that the volunteers perform a wide range of useful services for their
communities and organizations. Over 90 percent of RSVP volunteers provide direct
services, for example, annually serving more than 23 million meals to individuals
such as elderly shut-ins and the homeless; providing 300,000 families and 108,000
patients or other individuals with general health support services; providing more
than 11 million hours of direct education services through over 21,000 school
stations and 6,800 volunteers assisting children in 1,600 Head Start centers; assisting
528,000 homeless families; and providing nearly 1.3 million seniors, over 200,000
children, 59,000 patients and 1.1 million individuals with 10 million hours of
professional and technical services such as tax counseling, insurance assistance, help
filing out Medicare applications, computer support, etc."
Additionally, organizations housing RSVP volunteers benefit significantly in
tangible and intangible ways from service by seniors.
"In addition, the evaluation found that RSVP volunteers assisted their organizations
by freeing up 15 million hours of regular staff time; recruiting 100,000 additional
volunteers; and raising more than $11 million in cash and $114 million in-kind
resources for their organizations."
"Almost 2/3 of station volunteer supervisors indicated that their organizations or
services would be affected negatively by volunteer removal; 61% foresaw negative
effects on service, 21% expected their organizations to be harmed; and 10% thought
their programs would end."
Challenges to Growing Senior Service
Critical mass is missing. While the absolute numbers involved in Senior Corps community service
are impressive, these efforts are actually quite small, scarce and scattered, There is nothing
resembling critical mass in most areas. Approximately 3/4 of 1% of seniors 55 and older
are involved nationally --- in contrast to the roughly 5% of the eligible population that was
engaged by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 30's.
Cultural barriers abound. Our youth-oriented nation undervalues, stereo types, and automatically
ascribes frailty to seniors, failing to see them as serious, capable, and productive citizens and
service-providers. This barrier is not limited to external images; community programs
frequently underutilize seniors in service assignments, either by ignoring their possible
contributions or placing them in assignments that don't fully utilize their skills or abilities.
Current Senior Service Programs are limited. As they currently exist, the nature and quality of
Senior Corps service opportunities reveal several limitations. For example, few men
participate in the programs (from 10% of Foster Grandparents; 14% of Senior Companions;
and 25% of RSVP volunteers.) In addition, both the Foster Grandparent and Senior
Companion Programs are legally restricted to low-income individuals, thereby screening out
many working class and middle income individuals, including large numbers whose fixed
incomes put them slightly above the eligibility line. Lack of a flexible service schedule
(both Foster Grandparents and Senior Companions have a mandatory 20 hour service week)
and access to other service incentives such as educational stipends are also barriers to
fulfilling older American's potential for national service through existing Senior Corps
Programs.
PROPOSALS
[ To Be Developed: Launch Experience Corps. Currently a demonstration initiative which needs to
be moved to the mainstream]
D+C
6/24/99
AmeriCorps is working here
Federally funded community
Those critics ignore that AmeriCorps
makes it possible for people like Judy
service program is finding
Curry to give back to her community.
Curry, a mother of two who wants to
success in the Rochester area.
eventually earn a degree in theology, says
she couldn't afford to volunteer without
Add Rochester AmeriCorps as further
the $600 a month AmeriCorps stipend
evidence of uncommon community-
and the $4,725 provided for educational
mindedness that exists in this region.
expenses.
While the Clinton administration's 5-
Critics ought to view Rochester
year-old community service program has
AmeriCorps as proof that helping people
been taking its knocks in Congress from
to volunteer for community service
those who question its financial manage-
works. In a community with one of the
ment and accomplishments, AmeriCorps
highest levels of per-capita donations to
in Rochester is being hailed as a commu-
the annual United Way campaign,
nity asset.
Rochester area residents are enlisting in
A recent study by the Center for Gov-
AmeriCorps at a steadily increasing rate.
ernmental Research found that the more
The ranks of local AmeriCorps volun-
than 40 local nonprofit agencies served
teers will soon jump from 94 to more
by Rochester AmeriCorps were satisfied.
than 100.
In fact, 90 percent indicated that Ameri-
There are lots of people in Rochester
Corps volunteers improved the effective-
and across the nation who'd like nothing
ness of their services.
better than to be able to share their time
Clearly, the Rochester program doesn't
and talents. AmeriCorps helps them do
fit the picture painted by AmeriCorps'
that and at the same time helps establish
congressional
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
AmeriCorps thriving here
Criticized federal
are
Time
program gets raves
locally, from helpers
and those they help.
BY STAFF WRITER
MICHAEL WENTZEL
For almost two years, Peter
Sigrist has spent 40 hours a
week tutoring boys and orga-
nizing fund-raisers for their
step team, as part of an Action
for a Better Community pro-
gram.
Sigrist postponed a career
in urban planning in favor of
volunteer work in violence
prevention, to honor a close
friend who was killed in a
shooting.
"I wanted to do something
positive in Rochester," he
saíd.
Sigrist, a 1997 graduate of
Trinity College in Hartford,
Conn., found that opportunity
as a member of Rochester
AmeriCorps, a branch of one
of the most controversial com-
munity service organizations
in the country.
President Clinton's pro-
posal to increase AmeriCorps'
$472 million budget by more
than $100 million, in order to
add thousands of volunteers,
has been viewed skeptically
by a Congress that questions
both the agency's financial
management and accomplish-
ments.
Clinton promoted Ameri-
Corps as a way to boost volun-
teerism and to increase aid to
students. But critics and Clin-
ton opponents call Ameri-
Corps a sham and an example
of big government because
volunteers receive pay.
In Rochester, where
AmeriCorps is ending its fifth
year and starting to recruit its
largest number of volunteers
ever, the assessment is over-
whelmingly positive.
ANNETTE LEIN staff photographer
"It would be a hardship for
Doing good AmeriCorps volunteer Judy Curry works with Elisa Anderson as Machelle
us not to have AmeriCorps,"
Loyd reads, left, in an after-school program for kids at the Genesee Settlement House.
AMERICORPS, PAGE 8A
Curry says that AmeriCorps has turned her into an activist in the community.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
8A
DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1999
AmeriCorps
What you can do
Rochester AmeriCorps is
FROM PAGE 1A
accepting applications for
participation in the community
said Zetta Denno, vice president for
service program's next term that
programs at Genesee Settlement
begins in September.
House, which has four AmeriCorps
Corps members work for a
volunteers on staff. "We would not
variety of organizations, including
be able to have some programs with-
the Rochester School District,
out them. And it is clear they are
Monroe County Probation Office,
having an impact on the children."
Catholic Family Center,
A Center for Governmental Re-
neighborhood groups and
search study of the more than 40 lo-
settlement houses.
cal agencies served by Rochester
For information, call 262-1778
AmeriCorps supports her opinion
or visit the AmeriCorps office at
with statistics.
Monroe Community College's
Seventy-four percent of the host
Damon City Campus, 228 E.
agencies reported that having
Main St.
AmeriCorps members enabled
them to serve more people and 55
Other participants
percent said their presence permit-
AIMEE K. WILES staff photographer
Three other organizations
ted extended hours.
Almost 80 percent reported be-
Helping kids AmeriCorps member Peter Sigrist, 24, with mem-
administer AmeriCorps programs
in the Rochester area:
ing able to add new services and
bers of the step dance team of adolescents from Frederick Doug-
The Urban League of Rochester
more than 90 percent indicated that
lass Middle School whom he works with for 40 hours a week.
has 16 members who work on
AmeriCorps members improved
repair and cleanup projects on
the effectiveness of services.
the. Erie Canal and as tutors in
"AmeriCorps volunteers are god-
"I had never volunteered any-
members drop out or are dismissed
city schools. For information, call
sends," said Stephanie Fitzgerald,
where other than Bible school," she
before fulfilling their year's commit-
325-6530.
education training coordinator at
said. "But AmeriCorps has turned
ment. Rosche put Rochester's loss
Rural Opportunities has three
the Center for Youth Services.
me into a busy person and I'm active
rate at about 20 percent. Moreover,
volunteers who conduct pesticide
Rochester AmeriCorps, a $1 mil-
in a lot of things in the community."
about half of Rochester AmeriCorps
safety training for farm workers in
lion program operated by a consor-
In her AmeriCorps position, Cur-
members sign up for a second year.
several upstate counties. For
tium of community agencies and
ry, a graduate of MCC, helps first-
When Rochester AmeriCorps
information, call 546-7180.
headquartered at Monroe Commu-
graders with their homework, read-
began, about 75 percent of the mem-
Monroe County Legal Assistance
nity College, will recruit 100 people
ing and confidence every weekday
bers were women and 80 percent
Corp. has three AmeriCorps
- six more than last year - for ser-
at Genesee Settlement House - a
were African-American. In the most
members who are lawyers. They
vice that begins in September.
35-hour-a-week job. To support her-
recent group, about two-thirds were
primarily help people who are
In return for a one-year, full-time
self and her children, she also works
women and 60 percent were
mentally ill secure housing and
commitment, AmeriCorps mem-
as many as three nights a week as a
African-American.
other services. For information,
bers get individual medical cover-
nursing assistant at the Jewish
Almost half the volunteers are in
call 325-2520.
age, a child care subsidy and $8,340
Home of Rochester.
their 20S. But some have been older
- about $600 a month after taxes. At
Donnest Bridges, an AmeriCorps
than 50. The percentage of college
"I thought it would be valuable to
completion of service, a member
member assigned to the Norton
graduates has grown from 12 percent
have some life experience under my
can get $4,725 toward educational
Street Neighborhood Empower-
to 27 percent.
belt before going into a rigorous
expenses or to pay off school loans.
ment Team office who puts in about
"A lot of the work we are asking
training program, and I wanted to
"If all someone is looking for is a
40 hours a week, also works part
people to do does not strictly re-
come back and do something worth-
job, this is not a good one," said Mar-
time to supplement income for her-
quire a college degree, but it does
while," Wang said.
ilyn Rosche, Rochester AmeriCorps
self and her two children.
help," Rosche said. "We are trying to
Wang and other AmeriCorps
project director. "It just doesn't pay
"The sacrifice of income was ex-
be as diverse as we can in as many
members provided the Center for
much."
pected," she said. "You have to make
ways as we can."
Youth Services staff with a new per-
Critics, such as Citizens Against
sacrifices when there's something
In surveys, a high percentage of
spective, Fitzgerald said.
Waste in Government, claim that
you really want to do. Now I feel in-
Rochester AmeriCorps members
"They have helped us be more
each AmeriCorps volunteer actually
volved in my neighborhood and that
say they are satisfied with their vol-
sensitive to different cultures.
costs taxpayers $27,000, when health
I'm making a difference."
unteer assignments because they
They've done research for us that
care, child care and administrative
By August, when this year's term
have acquired work and leadership
keeps us soundly based. I can't imag-
costs are considered.
ends, 94 AmeriCorps members will
experience. Many say AmeriCorps
ine us doing as well as we do and see
But AmeriCorps members, some
have contributed almost 150,000
also has solidified a personal com-
ing as many kids as we do without
of whom have second jobs to cover
hours of community service.
mitment to community service.
AmeriCorps."
living expenses, say they could not
In their first six months, volun-
Melissa Wang, a Yale University
Wang's AmeriCorps experience
afford to participate in community
teers provided prevention and inter-
graduate from Pittsford, postponed
could result in a long relationship
service without the stipend or the
vention services to more than 3,000
medical school for a year to join
with the center. Wang plans to con-
money for education.
young people in the area. More than
AmeriCorps. As a staff member of
tinue as a volunteer after she starts
Judy Curry, a mother of two who
1,500 youths took part in activities
the Center for Youth Services, she
classes at the University of
hopes to get a bachelor's degree and
with AmeriCorps volunteers.
meets regularly with teens to dis-
Rochester Medical Center in Sep-
then a theology degree, was attract-
National studies have shown that
cuss anger management, drug abuse
tember, and hopes to bring some fel-
ed by the education package.
about 40 percent of AmeriCorps
and date rape prevention.
low students, as well.
PHOTOCOPY
PRESERVATION
CORPORATION FOR NATIONAL AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
FISCAL YEAR 2001 BUDGET
Overall Request
The President's 2001 Budget requests $851.3 million for the Corporation for National
and Community Service. This represents an increase of $119.7 million, or 16%,
above the amounts available in 2000.
The budget will support service by Americans in communities across the country,
including full-time and substantial part-time service by 62,000 AmeriCorps members;
support for more than 1 million students in service-learning programs in elementary
and secondary schools as well as institutions of higher education; and support for a
half million seniors engaged in service to their communities.
Highlights
AmeriCorps will grow to 100,000 members annually over the next four years, reaching a
goal for 2001 of 62,000 members. Since the launch of AmeriCorps five years ago,
more than 150,000 Americans have served on the front lines in hard-pressed
neighborhoods-tutoring in schools, responding to natural disasters, helping to make
our streets safer, building homes, and more. The budget for AmeriCorps will increase
by $73 million to accomplish this expansion.
Among the initiatives is an effort to an enable former AmeriCorps members to serve in
communities through a partnership with nonprofit organizations and a new
AmeriCorps Reserves program. This program would be modeled on the Military
reserves program where young professionals would serve in the Reserve Corps on
weekends and/or after work The mission of the Reserve Corps would be to address
national problems and crises, including natural disasters and domestic social problems
while, at the same time, working to renew and reinvigorate civic life by committing to
service, responsibility, and citizenship. The AmeriCorps Reserves would build on the
AmeriCorps Continuing Service initiative announced by the President at the 5th
Anniversary of AmeriCorps.
For service-learning, the budget includes $51 million, an increase of $8 million above
2000 levels, to give opportunities for more than a million students in middle schools,
high schools, and colleges to participate in service-learning. Two new youth
initiatives in the President's Budget, funded under this category, are:
Community Coaches: The Corporation for National Service will award
$5 million in grants to promote the use of community coaches in service-
learning. Community coaches, some of whom will be AmeriCorps
members, will help young people design and implement their own community
projects. This initiative is modeled after the Community Coaches program started
by the non-profit organization, Do Something. Already, Do Something is
supporting 110 community coaches in communities across the country.
Youth Empowerment Grants: The budget includes $3 million to reward
and support the creativity of youth by proving fellowships to young people
that have developed innovative youth driven solutions to community
problems facing young people in their own communities. The grants
would be awarded by the Corporation for National Service to community-
based organizations to support youth-led projects ranging from solutions
to prevent youth violence, ways to improve civic participation or social
justice, programs to improve academic achievement, or other youth
development initiatives.
The President's Budget expands funds for senior service by $9.7 million.
These funds will provide additional opportunities for thousands of older
Americans to serve their communities. The budget challenges members of
our older population to rededicate themselves to community participation and
create a legacy for future generations.
A new request is $7.5 million for America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth.
This effort is a nationwide crusade to help all children grow into healthy,
strong, and productive adults by assuring these five promises are fulfilled: (1)
An ongoing relationship with a caring adult-parent, mentor, tutor or coach;
(2) A safe place with structured activities during non-school hours; (3) A
healthy start; (4) A marketable skill through effective education; and (5) An
opportunity to give back through service.
The budget expands funding for program administration, including funds for
state commissions on national service, to address requirements related to
financial management, grants management, and systems implementation.
Other Information About National Service
In addition to these major programs of the Corporation for National Service -
AmeriCorps, service-learning and the Senior Corps - there are a number of initiatives that
are helping to build the ethic of service among all Americans.
Experience Corps. With demonstration funds the Corporation has supported programs to
engage seniors in their communities in new and exciting ways to address critical
community needs, including literacy, the need for independent living among seniors, and
housing.
As part of this initiative, the Seniors for Schools program has accomplished
improvements in reading scores and other outcomes for young children. The Experience
Corps for Independent Living expands the size and scope of volunteer efforts on behalf of
independent living service for frail elders and their caregivers in selected communities. A
partnership with Habitat for Humanity uses the time, talents, experience, and resources of
older persons to help build the capacity of local Habitat affiliates to move people out of
substandard housing into their own homes.
Some key features of the effort are:
Sustained service in sufficient numbers. Seniors serve between 15-20 hours per
week in groups targeted at specific needs, such as tutoring young children in
schools. The accomplishments are significantly greater than those that are
achieved by episodic volunteering. Such sustained service can often add a new
program dimension; for example, participating Habitat affiliates are able to build
homes throughout the week, not only on weekends.
Incentives. Modest incentives are necessary to obtain this level of sustained
service in order to defray out-of-pocket costs.
Focus on impact. All programs have strong evaluation components; results of
these efforts have been extremely positive.
Leaders. The programs make use of seniors as leaders who manage projects and
supervise other volunteers.
Funds to continue demonstration efforts, and support their adoption by
communities and other senior programs, are included in this budget.
AmeriCorps*Promise Fellows. Under a partnership with America's Promise: The
Alliance for Youth, AmeriCorps* Promise Fellows, 550 strong, are serving as catalysts
and coordinators for a whole range of projects with Communities of Promise. The
President's Budget proposes to double the size of this program.
Service Scholarships for High School Students. The Corporation for National Service
sponsors $1,000 scholarships, ½ of which is provided by local funds, for a junior and
senior in a high school doing outstanding service in their communities. This past year,
about 4,000 scholarships were awarded. The President's Budget includes funds for
15,000 such scholarships next year.
CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ANNOUNCES NEW BUDGET INITIATIVES TO
ENCOURAGE COMMUNITY SERVICE
January 11, 2000
Today, the White House will announce an investment of over $850 million in President
Clinton's FY 2001 budget to support community service and to empower more
Americans to renew our civic life. This increase of nearly $120 million for the
Corporation for National Service keeps AmeriCorps on track for the President's goal of
100,000 members each year by the year 2004. The budget will also include a new
"AmeriCorps Reserves" program, modeled after the military reserves, and designed to
engage former Corpsmembers in times of need. Finally, the Administration will also
announce $15.5 million in new initiatives that reward innovations in youth service, as
well as additional resources to encourage service by senior citizens, and to engage
students in learning through community service.
EXPANDING AMERICORPS AND CREATING A NEW "RESERVES"
PROGRAM TO ENGAGE AMERICORPS ALUMS IN COMMUNITY SERVICE.
Keeping AmeriCorps On Track for 100,000 Members a Year. With a $73 million
increase, AmeriCorps will be able to grow to 100,000 new members a year over the
next four yeas. Since the launch of AmeriCorps five years ago, more than 150,000
Americans have served on the front lines in hard-pressed neighborhoods-tutoring in
schools, responding to natural disasters, helping to make our streets safer, building
homes, and more. In fact, more Americans have served in AmeriCorps in the last five
years than have served in the entire history of the Peace Corps.
"AmeriCorps Reserves" to Engage Former Corpsmembers in Service. The
President's budget includes $5 million to create a new AmeriCorps reserves program
that will enable former Corpsmembers to re-engage in service to their communities,
particularly in times of crisis. This pilot program would be modeled on the military
reserves: former AmeriCorps members would serve in the Reserve Corps on
weekends and/or after work, and would address national crises, including natural
disasters. The Reserves will build on the AmeriCorps Continuing Service initiative,
which connects AmeriCorps alums to community service projects through a
partnership with national non-profit organizations such as the American Red Cross,
the Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Habitat for Humanity, the National
Mentoring Partnership and the YMCA.
"COMMUNITY COACHES" AND OTHER INNOVATIVE INVESTMENTS IN
YOUTH-DRIVEN SOLUTIONS.
Community Coaches. For the first time, the Corporation for National Service
will award $5 million in grants to place a "community coach" in nearly 1,000
schools. Community Coaches - AmeriCorps members, teachers, and
counselors - can help students make the most of their community service and can act
as a vital link between the school, the business sector, and the local community. This
initiative is modeled after the Community Coaches program pioneered by the national
youth leadership non-profit organization Do Something. Do Something is already
supporting community coaches in more than 100 schools in 75 communities across
the country.
Youth Empowerment Grants. The budget also includes $3 million for new
Youth Empowerment Grants, competitive fellowships that reward young
social entrepreneurs dedicated to solving problems in their communities. The
Corporation for National Service will award the grants to community-based
organizations that sponsor young people who have designed and developed
their own projects. These will include efforts to prevent youth violence,
programs to improve civic participation, and initiatives that engage older
students in tutoring and mentoring.
America's Promise: The Alliance for Youth. The budget will include $7.5
million for this national crusade to help all children grow into healthy, strong,
and productive adults. America's Promise focuses on five promises for every
child: (1) an ongoing relationship with a caring adult -- parent, mentor, tutor
or coach; (2) a safe place with structured activities during non-school hours;
(3) a healthy start; (4) a marketable skill through effective education; and (5)
an opportunity to give back through service.
SUPPORTING SENIOR CITIZENS IN SERVICE TO THEIR COMMUNITIES.
The President's budget expands funds for senior service by $9.7 million. These
funds will provide additional opportunities for thousands of older Americans to
serve their communities.
AmeriCorps: VISTA & Technology
http://AmeriCorps.org/vista_tech/index.htm
We're part of the Corporation for National Service
AMERICORPS
Bridge The Digital Divide:
Start the new millenium by bringing the advantage
of technology to some of our neediest communities
"We're going to take
AmeriCorps *VISTA volunteers
Looking for a way to give back, to feel the kind of job satisfaction of
qualify them in the information
helping people in need that you don't find in a typical 9 to 5 corporate
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job? What about taking your interest in the internet and other computer
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technologies into communities that might not otherwise have access?
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that these youngsters get the
information technology in thos
AmeriCorps* VISTA has a unique opportunity for the next 12 months for
YMCAs so that they can be up
you. You could be one of up to 500 AmeriCorps VISTA members
speed, so that they can be at
serving on technology projects with non-profit organizations and schools
leading edge of the new age."
throughout the U.S. You'll help them effectively use technology to
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increase the impact of their work in the low-income communities they
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serve.
Supporting you would be the significant resources of some of America's
technology leaders: America Online, Gateway, IBM, Microsoft, Sun
Microsystems, and WinStar for Education. In addition, leading
non-profits including NetDay (the NextDay project), Save the Children
US (Power UP), Tech Corps, United Way of America (Teaming for
TECHnology), and the YMCA of the USA (Power UP) and the
Corporation for National Service will help to ensure that you receive the
support you need to make the experience meaningful for you and for the
low-income community you serve.
Why do our country's low-income communities need this technology
assistance?
There is a great "digital divide" between schools in low-income
communities and those in middle/high-income areas. Only 6% of all
wired schools have the trained personnel to actually put technology to
use in the curriculum. AmeriCorps VISTA members can build the
infrastructure to make this happen.
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http://AmeriCorps.org/vista_tech/index.html
What some
Also, as more agencies become involved in assisting low-income
AmeriCorps*VISTAs hav
residents from "welfare to work," the need for technology training will
already accomplished:
only increase. As an AmeriCorps*VISTA, the access to technology and
job training you'll provide is critical to help people find jobs and get off
Computers valued at over
welfare.
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to over 40 nonprofits in o
What exactly would I be doing?
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you'd be assigned to. You could:
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assess technology needs of schools, agencies
training to residents of six
design technology plans with faculty, students, and community
neighborhoods
members
raise funds or donations of equipment, software, or networking
services
recruit community volunteers and donors for computer
installation, wiring, teacher training, class instruction, email
mentors, and to staff computer labs and classrooms
locate resources for curriculum development
As an AmeriCorps*VIS
develop curriculum for both students and parents, or community
you could help "bridge
members at-large
digital divide" for schoo
provide training aimed at securing technology-based employment
the children they serve,
nonprofits and the large
communities that they S
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one of these technology-based projects.
please email us at
acorpstech@infosystec.
or call 1-800-942-2677.
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AmeriCorps Programs in New York
Albany
Ecumenical Program for Urban Service (EPRUS)
Sponsor: The National Council of the Churches of Christ
Activities: Members serve in schools and community organizations in low-income
neighborhoods, primarily offering tutoring and mentoring support, leading after school recreation
and enrichment activities, assisting runway and homeless youth, providing drug abuse prevention
and other healthy lifestyle information, and delivering gang prevention and intervention
assistance.
New York State Waterway Community Corps
Sponsor: New York State Corps Collaboration Waterways Program
Activities: Through this statewide initiative, members serve in nine youth corps to enhance and
protect the environment of urban and rural communities along the linked New York State
Canal/Hudson River corridor. Members clean up and restore parks, community gardens, green
spaces and watersheds; provide environmental education for school children; improve access to
sites along the waterway corridor; involve communities through volunteer recruitment and
utilization; and address human needs of residents of the communities along the corridor.
New York State Council on Children and Families
Sponsor: NY State Council on Children and Families
Activities: AmeriCorps members focus on early childhood and family literacy. Members
support the early literacy development of fax: 300 400 3-5 year old children in ways that 1) by
encourage new mothers in hospitals to read from the start of their children's lives, 2) work with
children in head start centers, and establish lending libraries. In the area of adult literacy,
members tutor 75-100 parents to enhance their reading abilities and improve their employment
readiness skills. Members help adults prepare for the GED, write resumes and prepare for job
interviews.
Albany Service Corps
Sponsor: Albany School Success AmeriCorps Program
Activities: AmeriCorps members support school success through three principal initiatives: 1900
improve the literacy of 500 students, provide extended day programming for 500 youth; and
3) to imprové school attendance of 300 students. The program goals are to improve the
achievement potential of at-risk youth.
Albany YMCA, Albany YMCA AmeriCorps Program
Sponsor: Education Award Only Albany YMCA
Activities: Members tutor, mentor, and provide after school services and activities for 80+ of
the most at-risk students in Albany. Expected impacts include improvement in grades as well as
in school attendance. Members also provide support services to 500+ people through other a wide
initiatives and programs that otherwise would not exist. This program model successfully
vanety
replicates one in NH.
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Bronx
Bronx Youth Conservation Corps (Save a Generation, AmeriCorps)
Sponsor: Save A Generation State Program Fordham Univ.
Activities: Members focus on educational and environmental concerns in the Bronx area of
NYC. Some members clear and restore large wilderness parks and provide upkeep to smaller
urban areas by planting trees, repairing trails, and improving erosion control. Members also
remove graffiti from shops and public places. Other members serve in the schools by tutoring jr.
high students, assisting with the development of community gardens, monitoring the lunchroom
and providing needed support to prevent truancy and increase attendance. The program partners
with Fordham University. Hundreds of students and thousands of community residents will
benefit from their efforts.
Latino Pastoral Action Center Program
Sponsor: Latino Pastoral Action Center Program
Activities: AmeriCorps members improve the literacy of 150, 5-7 year old students through a
comprehensive school day and extended day program. Additionally, members improve the
academic performance of 150 6-14 year olds through an after school program. Members also
serve to increase the access and use of community services by 100 youth and their family.
members.
Brooklyn
YouthBuild Brownsville-Brooklyn
Sponsor: YouthBuild USA
Activities: The service Member activities focus primarily on renovating houses and buildings for the
homeless and low income families. YouthBuild USA has a substantial number of affiliate
organizations across the country. Members serve directly with community based organizations
to rehabilitate abandoned housing and build new homes for homeless people, persons with
HIV/AIDS, the physically challenged, and low-income families. They build awareness of
community issues and generate volunteers for local service projects.
Sunset Park Family Health Center Network Community Mealthcorps
Sponsor: National Association of Community Health Centers
Activities: The Sunset Park Family Health Center Network is a large community health center
serving the low income and medically under-served communities of southwest Brooklyn.
AmeriCorps members link individuals in Brooklyn with(our health centers through referral,
education, and follow-up programs. Members also link primary care patients to other health and
social service organizations.
RF/CUNY on behalf of New York City Technical College Technorps
Sponsor: TechCorps State Program CUNY / NYC Technical college
Activities: childreno AmeriCorps members serve in various sites in the Ft. Green area of Brooklyn and
focus on literacy and the school success of children: Thirty members will tutor, mentor and assist
with child development activities in after school sites, fifteen members will support the America
Reads initiative, and five Members will assist parents in the development of computer literacy.
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Church Avenue Merchants Association, Inc. (CAMBA)
Sponsor: Brooklyn's Healthy AmeriCorps State Program
Activities: AmeriCorps Members provide education in parenting, HIV and pregnancy and
assistance in managed care for 100 low-income high-risk parents and teens in Brooklyn, New
York. Members also provide health education for local children and youth.
Buffalo
Canisius College NE university
Sponsor: Northeastern University Center for Sport in Society
Activities: AmeriCorps Members recruit college and high school students to tutor and mentor
school age youth during full-time summer and year-round after school programs. The full-time
Members train part-time Members and community volunteers in curriculum development and
tutoring skills and all Members expand the program's partnership with families, schools and
community agencies.
Buffalo Place Foundation
Sponsor: AmeriCorps Ranger Escort State Program
Activities: AmeriCorps Members increase public safety visibility and effectiveness through
identifying potential crimes and patrolling the streets of downtown Buffalo. Expected impacts
include a 10% decrease in crime and a 20% increase in the perception of a safer downtown area.
Additionally, members provide safety escorts for 500 people and distribute safety tips to 3000
people.
Delhi
Catskill Outdoor Education Corps State Program
Sponsor: SUNY College of Technology
Activities: AmeriCorps members will develop an outdoor recreation/education facility in the
Catskill Mountains. Members will clear- or construct hiking trails, picnic areas, gardens, natural
areas, and an amphitheater. Member service will provide the community with an information
clearinghouse on outdoor education and recreation; opportunities for outdoor recreation skill
development; and a natural laboratory to study the environment.
Elizabethtown
Families First in Essex County
Sponsor: Families First in Essex County State Program
Activities: AmeriCorns Members serve in eleven agencies throughout Essex County to address
all five goals of the Summit as well as the human needs of its citizens. Members tutor, mentor,
and counsel youth, train parents of youth with disabilities, and provide educational support to
older adolescents. Program goals are to improve the academic and behavioral performance of
students in schools and to increase the numbers of community agencies and businesses that
collaborate.
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Irving
Seneca Nation of Indians
Sponsor: The Strengthening Foundations Project Tribe Territory
Activities: Members provide culturally appropriate tutoring to 200 youth grades 7-12, during the
school year to improve their grades by at least one a grade level. Summer component includes
environmental clean up and reforestation activities, with a minimum of 50 cords of wood to be
distributed to elders. Seneca language and culture will be emphasized in member training and
community activities. This program serves two Seneca reservations 40 miles apart in rural
upstate New York.
Locust Valley
On Your Marks, Summerbridge
Sponsor: Summerbridge National
Activities: Summerbridge National AmeriCorps Members provided tutoring and mentoring
support in after-school, weekend, and summer settings, provided enrichment class instruction,
provided service and service-learning opportunities for elementary, middle, secondary school
and college students, and cultivated young educators.
Main Street
The Institute for Human Services, Inc.
Sponsor: AmeriCorps Kids First Initiative
Activities: Twenty AmeriCorps members serve in single site placements throughout rural Stuben
County supporting various goals of the Summit. Members provide 3750 of the county's youth
with positive role models and alternative activities through tutoring, mentoring, and planned
activities. Members ensure that youth and their families receive the support needed to succeed in
and stay in school. Additionally, members provide support to ensure that children have safe and
healthy home environments and behaviors. Specific member services include providing safe
places, substance abuse prevention counseling, adolescent pregnancy training, health care
counseling, and alternative after school activities.
New Paltz
Research Foundation of SUNY-New Paltz
Sponsor: AmeriCorps Education Awards Program
Activities: Members provide tutoring and literacy assistance to 500+ youth; after school,
weekend, and summer activities in 4 community centers; and involve youth in community
service efforts.
New York
National Substance Abuse Service Corps
Sponsor: Phoenix House of Culif
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Activities: The National Substance Abuse Service Corps is a collaborative effort of substance
and alcohol abuse treatment and prevention programs and educational institutions. It seeks to
services.
expand and improve the local networks of substance and alcohol abuse treat ment and prevention
Jumpstart New York City
Sponsor: Jumpstart for Young Children ,Inc.
Activities: Jumpstart recruits and trains part-time AmeriCorps members (who are mostly college
students) to work individually with preschool children, helping them to develop the literacy and
social skills that are crucial to school success. Jumpstart's AmeriCorps members serve a 20-
month, part-time term of service (900 hours), which includes working one-on-one with a
preschool child during the school year and team teaching in a preschool classroom during the
summer. AmeriCorps members' service also includes a focus on communicating and
collaborating with children's families; extensive training in early childhood education; and the
opportunity to plan and execute an annual community event, Jumpstart KidsFest.
Project FIRST Americops
Sponsor: Public Education Network
Activities: Project FIRST AmeriCorps Members refurbish and install technological components
related to Internet access in schools, and assist educators, students and adult learners in using the
technology. Members also provide direct instructional support at schools and community forums.
Youth Action YouthBuild AmeriCorps
Sponsor: YouthBuild USA, Inc.
Activities: Members serve directly with community based organizations to rehabilitate
abandoned housing and build new homes for homeless people, persons with HIV/AIDS, the
physically challenges, and low income families. They build awareness of community issues and
generate volunteers for local service projects.
NewYork/Americorps
I Have a Dream AmeriCorps Foundation
Sponsor: I Have a Dream Foundation
Activities: Members enable (IHAD) sites to intensify their outreach to Dreamers, their families
and the community. In addition to tutoring and mentoring and providing academic and social
enrichment, members recruit and train community volunteers, organize family involvement
activities and lead Dreamers in community service projects.
New York City LISC Ameri cops
Sponsor Local Initiatives Support Corporation (2LISC)
Activities: Members engage in community revitalization activities including housing outreach
and education, job training, youth education programs, neighborhood planning, and human
services planning.
Teach for America, New York
Sponsor: Teach for America
Activities: AmeriCorps Members teach under-served youth at inner city and rural public
schools. Members assume leadership roles on school committees, sponsoring after school
and
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enrichment and recreational opportunities. Members also coordinate and implement service
projects addressing specific community needs.
AmeriCorps 100 New York
Sponsor: 100 Black Men of America Inc.
Activities: The AmeriCorps 100 program will improve the quality of life for K-12 youth in
under served communities by enhancing their ability to be academically and socially
competitive. Through tutoring and mentoring, students' academic performance will improve,
school attendance will increase and youth will have more opportunities to participate in
community service.
Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families
Sponsor Harlem Children's Zone state Program
Activities: AmeriCorps members provide in-class and after school literacy-based and conflict
resolution training for children in grades 1-5 in three elementary schools in Harlem, NY.
Additionally, AmeriCorps members address community needs by supporting family literacy,
providing crises support to families, developing a Community Safety Task Force and improving
the physical environment of the Harlem Children's Zone.
New York State Substance Abuse Service Program
Sponsor: Phoenix House AmeriCorps program
Activities: Members assist various communities by developing linkages between treatment
providers, organizations, and schools. Members provide substance abuse prevention counseling
and education to community residents, including individuals in recovery, educators, school-aged
youth and parents.
YMCA of Greater New York
Sponsor: YMCA School Success Program
Activities: This is An extended day youth-based program where 72 AmeriCorps Members facilitate
classroom-based service activities and enrichment activities, in 12 low-performing schools.
Members also lead physical fitness and health awareness activities and provide community
service-learning activities. Expected impact includes 120 service projects, a 5-percent increase
in student reading and math scores, and a 15-percent increase in student fitness levels.
Fund for the City of New York [Red Hook) Americorps
Sponsor: State Program Fund for the City of NY
Activities: Members serve either on the Community (C) Team to address public safety in public
places and the upkeep of green spaces, the Unity (U) Team for mediation services, or the Family
(F) Team that focuses on the safety of children during and after school. The program has
established strong partnerships with the justice system, local police, and victim services
agencies.
Grand Street Settlement Americanps
Sponsor: AmeriCorps State Program
Activities: 40 part time AmeriCorps members serve in various sites throughout the Lower East
Side of Manhattan. Members address school safety, school readiness and school success issues
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of community residents. By escorting youth to after school activities, program attendance has
increased. Service Members in the Early Head Start Program and work with parents support family literacy
and school readiness. Members also provide homework assistance, computer training, and one to
one tutoring to promote school success.
Public Space for Public Life: Parks Council and National Audobon Society Initiative
Sponsor: The Parks Council
Activities: AmeriCorps members support the creation, reclamation and restoration of
neighborhood parks and public spaces in New York City, including a wetland park and a 10 acre
forested area in Queens. Additionally, members engage elementary school students in building
science and math skills through exploration of the natural world using the National Audubon
Society curriculum. Members will build five new science gardens at schools in Manhattan,
engage public school students in applied science research and environmental restoration projects,
and involve students in observing bird life in their communities.
Don't Trash New York
Sponsor: New York Restoration Project
Activities: AmeriCorps members focus on environmental clean up in New York City. Members
clean, create, restore and maintain 350 acres of parkland; provide neighborhood ecology at 2
outdoor science learning facilities for 100 students; build a boat with community students;
engage community leaders in the creation of a plan for sustainability; and link public spaces to
the public education system.
City College's Empowering Communities Program
Sponsor: City College of the City University of New York
Activities: AmeriCorps Members from the City College of New York facilitate a community
service learning program that increases community members' computer skills and school
success. Members train community members in computer skills, tutor students after-school, and
work with parents to involve them more their child's education. Expected impacts include:
Community members be trained in computer skills and while targeted youth will show an
improvement in college preparatory skills.
Lower East Side/Chinatown Amen Corps
Sponsor: Pace University
Activities: 11 part-time and 46 reduced part-time members serve the primarily Asian community
in Lower Eastside NYC. Members tutor and mentor low achieving junior high students to
improve their grades and attendance; provide college and career counseling to high school
students and their parents to increase the rate of h.s. graduation, college matriculation and
career/employment options; and provide service-learning opportunities to students to help them
increase their problem solving skills.
Teachers for Tomorrow
Sponsor: Teachers for Tomorrow, Inc.
Activities: Members serve as Teaching Fellows in yearlong apprenticeships to mentor teachers
in schools throughout New York City. The goal is to provide Fellows the opportunity to learn the
art of teaching from leading educators. Outcome goals are to strengthen the educational success
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of disadvantaged public school students and increase the number of talented young people who
pursue careers as urban schoolteachers.
Harlem Independent Living Center
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Sponsor: Creating Opportunity
Activities: AmeriCorps Members serve in a consortium of six Independent Living Centers that
serve the disabled community throughout New York City. Members focus their service activities
in three areas: housing, youth and the 10th anniversary of ADA 2000. Specifically, some
members will develop database to identify 250 accessible housing units and help landlords as
well as realtors learn ways of increasing housing accessibility. Other members provide
mentoring, peer counseling and information referral to 150 youth to help 60% transition from
High School. Regarding the ADA 2000, members other educate and inform 500 individuals and
organizations and engage 150 actively in planning the event. HILC is the lead agency in this
consortium. 2 about the planning of +DA 2000.
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Ecumenical Program for Urban Service (EPRUS)
Sponsor: Education Awards Program for of EPRUS
Activities: Members provide mentoring, skill-learning, employment, education, healthy start,
safe places, and volunteer generation activities.
Habitat for Humanity-New York City
NY C Habitat Ameri corp
Sponsor: Habitat for Humanity
Activities: Members construct and rebuild homes and buildings, including single family
dwellings in urban communities. They provide crew leadership, recruit and work with
community volunteers, educate homeowners on settlement procedures and basic home repair,
and conduct community needs assessment.
Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara
Sponsor: The ARC of the US
Activities: Members mentor individuals with mental retardation on a one-to-one basis, teach
independent living skills, and assist integration into community life. Members serve as liaisons
between the community and disabled persons and educate community groups, local businesses
and the general public about the needs of developmentally disabled.
AmeriCorps Community Service Internship
Sponsor: Bank Street College of Education
Activities: Members provide classroom and after-school literacy training & reading/ tutoring
support for 700+ elementary school students who do not perform at grade level.
Oneonta
Oneonta Rural School Empowerment Program
Sponsor: SUNY Oneonta Research Foundation
Activities: AmeriCorps members improve the school success of youth in Oneonta County.
Focusing on reading and math, members tutor and mentor 900 students in school and engage 450
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students in after school and evening programs. Additionally, through the development of 15
Youth Leaders in Action service clubs, members provide leadership training for 225 youth.
Oswego
Oswego AmeriCorps Program
Sponsor: Oswego City-County Youth Bureau
Activities: AmeriCorps members serve in multiple agencies throughout Oswego County to
provide positive prevention services to youth and families. Members assist youth and families
with basic needs that permit self-sufficiency such as with food, clothing, shelter, childcare and
safety. Additionally members provide school readiness, literacy readiness and tutoring
opportunities by supporting parents of preschoolers, assisting with in school and after school
activities, and establishing a summer reading program for elementary students. Members also
provide positive alternatives and relationships for youth and their families by developing a youth
leadership program, establishing parent support groups and developing meaningful community
service projects. Members will serve at least 2000 youth and their families.
Peekskill
Community Health Corps
Sponsor: National Association of Community Health Centers
Activities: AmeriCorps Members link individuals in under-served communities with health
centers through referral, education, and follow-up programs. Members also link primary care
patients to other health and social service organizations.
Plainview
AHRC Adult Day Services Program
Sponsor: NY SARC Nassau County
Activities: Thirty Year part-time AmeriCorps Members provide shopping services and
companionship to homebound elderly and/or disabled citizens and respite care services for the
care givers of disabled adults. Members, who themselves are disabled, work in teams with
college students who are fulfilling their college community service requirements. This program
links and integrates adults with developmental disabilities with college students and the elderly
homebound population in need of services resulting in 75% of each population gaining a better
understanding and acceptance of each other.
Port Ewen
YouthBuild USA Multi-State AmeriCorps Initiative
Sponsor: YouthBuild USA, Inc
Activities: Members serve directly with community based organizations to rehabilitate
abandoned housing and build new homes for homeless people, persons with HIV/AIDS, the
physically challenged and low income families. They build awareness of community issues and
generate volunteers for local service projects.
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Poughkeepsie
YRDC AmeriCorps
Sponsor: Youth Resource Development Corporation (YRDC)
Activities: Members focus on academic success and environmental revitalization by engaging
youth in service. Members mentor and provide after-school care, summer and workplace
learning opportunities for youth and persons with disabilities. Additionally members tutor and
teach literacy skills to youth at schools and community centers that have significant
concentrations of low-income students. Members also serve to help reduce the crime against, and
by youth by introducing conflict resolution and violence prevention skills. Using service-learning
activities, members engage youth in environmental projects such as community gardening,
making playgrounds and public spaces cleaner and safer, and environmental stewardship.
Long Lake
NY Adirondack Youth Conservation AmeriCorps
Sponsor: Student Conservation Association, Inc NY
Activities: AmeriCorps Members serve in a residential environmental conservation program in
the Adirondacks region. Members build, repair, refurbish and restore recreational and natural
areas such as hiking trails, campgrounds, historic buildings and sites. Additionally, Members use
service-learning models to provide environmental and ecological education for 400 to 800 in
school, after-school, and out-of-school youth. Sixty to 100 volunteers will be recruited and
trained by Members to assist with these activities. Program operates from October to August
applications are due by July +
Rensselaer
NYS Office of Children & Family Services
Sponsor: Governor's Innovative School Violence Prevention Program
Activities: Twenty full time AmeriCorps members serve to reduce the number of violent
incidents (including physical, verbal and mental abuse) that youth impose on others and to
decrease the incidence of violence in schools and youth center settings. Approximately 400
youth, between pre-school and high school, learn principles of anger control, non-violent
resolution of problems, early warning signs of rage, improved communication techniques, and
empathy/understanding of others. As a result of member service, students' grades will increase
and absenteeism will decline. Additionally, corps members will engage the community in ways
that help them develop more positive attitudes and images of youth as well as increase the local
interest in developing new youth services.
Rochester
Monroe County Legal Assistance/Homelessness Prevention
Sponsor: National Association of Public Interest Law (NAPIL)
Activities: Members secure affordable housing for low income families, assist domestic violence
victims, and coordinate projects to prevent homelessness.
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Monroe Community College NY's Enterprise Communi
Sponsor: State Program Monroe Comm College
Activities: 94 full-time AmeriCorps Members serve in 25 community-based organizations in
Rochester, New York's Enterprise Community. The purpose of this program is to increase the
reality and perception of public safety in the community. Members provide assistance to police
substations, prevention and intervention education to youth around the issues of substance abuse and
conflict resolution, and implement positive developmental and community service activities with for
neighborhood youth. Expected impacts include: a 20% increase in geographic area covered by
Neighborhood Watch and block clubs; a 20% increase in contacts at police substations; a N
reported increase in intervention/prevention services offered to youth; and a 10% increase in he
numbers of youths participating in targeted activities.
National Farmworker Environmental Education Program
Sponsor: Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
Activities: AmeriCorps members train migrant and seasonal farmworkers in methods of
reducing their exposure to pesticides and accessing health, education, and supportive services.
Members become state-certified safety trainers.
Schenectady
The Schenectady Bridge Builders
Sponsor: Schenectady County Job Training Agency
Activities: AmeriCorps Members serve in teams to tutor students in grades K-3; mentor youth in
after school programs in conflict resolution, personal safety, and drug resistance; rehabilitate 2
single family low income houses; and construct community paths and revitalize nature trails. As
a result of the tutoring services provided to 2000 students and family members, ninety five
percent of the participating students will be able to read independently by age 8. Additionally,
forty percent of parents will complete activities at home to strengthen student-reading skills.,
Three hundred youth will learn new skills improve their attitudes and behavior, Two low or
moderate-income families will own newly renovated homes, not otherwise available to them
and
The community parks will be more accessible to the public as well as to the disabled community.
Volunteers will also contribute 100 hours to a greenhouse and community gardens.
Our Experience is the Best Teacher
Sponsor: Self-Advocacy Association of New York
Activities: 6 AmeriCorps members, with developmental and other disabilities, give disability
awareness presentations to at least 3000 students with and without disabilities and teachers in
order to increase the acceptance and inclusion of students with disabilities Additionally,
Members provide sensitivity awareness training for 1600 staff of organizations that support
individuals with disabilities and to 3000 individuals from other civic, government or community
groups. In addition to increasing community awareness and sensitivity, member serviceSwill are
improve the involvement and employment opportunities of people with disabilities and
strengthen their self-advocacy skills.
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Syracuse
Syracuse Community Health Center-HealthCorps
Sponsor: National Association of Community Health Centers
Activities: AmeriCorps Members link individuals in under-served communities with health
centers through referral, education, and follow-up programs. Members also link primary care
patients to other health and social service organizations.
Syracuse Area Catholic Charities AmeriCorps Program
Sponsor: Syracuse Area Catholic Charities
Activities: AmeriCorps members serve in seven centers in the greater Syracuse, NY region with
attention in three areas: 1) to assist with the early childhood education of 150 3-5 year olds to
foster school readiness and school success, 2) to teach and model pro-social skills to 1200
children 5-18 years and 3) to transport 800 low income children and women to medical
appointments to improve compliance with medical treatment. Members work with children in
schools and in after school programs. Additionally, members will expand their service to support
the needs of refugee youth in the area, which includes providing them an orientation to the
community and to the schools, providing support with the adjustment to a new culture, and
teaching ESL and assisting with citizenship classes.
Goldberg Marriage and Family Therapy Program
Sponsor: Syracuse University
Activities: Members, who are Masters students in the Goldberg Marriage and Family
Therapy program at Syracuse University, providesfamily therapy to children, adolescents,
couples, individuals and families in central New York addressing family issues such as domestic
violence, child abuse and neglect, family conflict, marital discord. and poverty.
Utica
Family Nurturing Center of Central NY
Sponsor: Family Nurturing Center of Central NY, Inc.
Activities: Twenty full time AmeriCorps members provide home-based and community based
parenting education and support services for 250+ low income families. Members teach and
demonstrate ways for parents to provide quality play and learning activities for children, aged
birth to six. Members also provide education on lead screening, fire safety, accidental injuries
and asthma. Additionally, members provide information and referral services for 600 parents of
low income households. For the 1998-99 program year, the program will eliminate part time
member positions.
West Seneca
West Seneca Youth Bureau-Share the Word
Sponsor: Universities at Buffalo, Buffalo State College and the King Urban Center
Activities: Members will adopt elementary and secondary schools with low retention rates in
order to increase retention through tutoring and providing public awards for the students' work.
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Members also design and implement service projects with these students. Expected impacts
include: a 75% improvement in test scores of students tutored; a 75% satisfaction rate among
service recipients; and a 75% improvement in student retention rate.
Weed & Seed Urban Suburban AmeriCorps / W&S us A )
Sponsor: West Seneca Youth Bureau-Weed & Seed
Activities: AmeriCorps members conduct health and wellness workshops and community
outreach activities to ensure that 5000 residents and children are provided a nurturing
environment and a healthy start in life. Other members work with community residents and non-
profit organizations to identify and create safe places for youth. Additionally members serve
to increase the capacity of existing community organizations and enhance their volunteer efforts
by recruiting 1000 new participants who address the goals of the Summit. Members will also
help form to and coordinate junior block clubs to involve 2000 youth in community service.
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Arizona
Arkansas
California
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Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Ecumenical Program for Urban Service (EPRUS)
Florida
Tri-City Shalom AmeriCorps
Georgia
National Direct
Hawaii
H. Ward Greer
Idaho
Illinois
Executive Director
Indiana
Albany United Methodist Society, inc.
lowa
423 Clinton Avenue
Kansas
Albany, NY, 12206
Kentucky
Louisiana
Issue Areas: Education, Other Human Needs
Maine
The National Council of the Churches of Christ is the nation's largest
Maryland
ecumenical organization. The Council's mission is to support its member
Massachusetts
denominations and churches in working toward social, economic and racial
Michigan
justice. The Council received a National Direct grant in 1994. AmeriCorps
Minnesota
Mississippi
Members serve in schools and community organizations in low-income
Missouri
neighborhoods, primarily offering tutoring and mentoring support, leading
Montana
after-school recreation and enrichment activities, assisting runaway and
Nebraska
homeless youth, providing drug abuse prevention and other healthy lifestyle
Nevada
information, and delivering gang prevention and intervention assistance.
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York State Corps Collaboration Waterways Program
New York
New York Waterway Community Corps
North Carolina
State Program
North Dakota
Linda Cohen
Ohio
Oklahoma
One Steuben Place
Oregon
Albany, NY 12208
Pennsylvania
phone: 518-432-8757
Puerto Rico
fax: 518-432-8767
Rhode Island
South Carolina
[email protected]
South Dakota
Issue Areas: Education, Environment, Other Human Needs
Tennessee
Through this statewide initiative, AmeriCorps members will serve in 9 corps to
Texas
enhance and protect the environment of urban and rural communities along the
Utah
linked New York State Canal/Hudson river corridor. Members will clean-up
Vermont
Virgin Islands
and restore parks, community gardens, green spaces and watersheds; provide
Virginia
environmental education for school children; improve access to sites along the
Washington
waterway corridor; involve communities through volunteer recruitment and
West Virginia
utilization; and address human needs of residents of the communities along the
Wisconsin
corridor.
Wyoming
Tribes & Territories
New York State Council on Children and Families
NY State Council on Children and Families
State Program
Dan Crawley
5 Empire State Plaza
Suite 2810
Albany, NY, 12223-1553
fax: 518-474-6294
fax: 518-473-2750
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Issue Areas: Education, Child/Youth
AmeriCorps members focus on early childhood and family literacy. Members
support the early literacy development of fax: 300-400 3-5 year old children in
ways that 1) encourage new mothers in hospitals to read from the start of their
children's lives, 2) work with children in head start centers, and 3) establish
lending libraries. In the area of adult literacy, members tutor 75-100 parents to
enhance their reading abilities and improve their employment readiness skills.
Members help adults prepare for the GED, write resumes and prepare for job
interviews.
Albany Service Corps
Albany School Success AmeriCorps Program
State Program
Kevin Jobin-Davis
Program Coordinator
7 Hoffman Avenue
Albany, NY, 12209
phone: 518-434-2677
fax: 518-434-5358
Issue Areas: Education, Environment,AmeriCorps members support school
success through three principal initiatives: 1) to improve the literacy of 500
students, 2) to provide extended day programming for 500 youth, and 3) to
improve school attendance of 300 students. The program goals are to improve
the achievement potential of at-risk youth.
Albany YMCA, Albany YMCA AmeriCorps Program
Education Award Only
David Brown Executive Director
274 Washington Avenue
Albany, NY, 12203
phone: 518-449-7196
fax: 518-434-0255
Issue Areas: Child/Youth, Education
Members tutor, mentor, and provide after school services and activities for 80+
of the most at-risk students in Albany. Expected impacts include improvement
in grades as well as in school attendance. Members also provide support
services to 500+ people through other initiatives and programs that otherwise
would not exist. This program model successfully replicates one in NH.
Bronx Youth Conservation Corps (Save a Generation, AmeriCorps)
Save A Generation
State Program
Gary Bogel
664 Grote St.
Bronx, NY, 10457
phone: 718-365-5456
fax: 718-365-5442
Issue Areas: Education, Environment, Child/Youth
Members focus on educational and environmental concerns in the Bronx area of
NYC. Some members clear and restore large wilderness parks and provide
upkeep to smaller urban areas by planting trees, repairing trails, and improving
erosion control. Members also remove graffiti from shops and public places.
Other members serve in the schools by tutoring jr. high students, assisting with
the development of community gardens, monitoring the lunch room and
providing needed support to prevent truancy and increase attendance. The
program partners with Fordham University. Hundreds of students and
thousands of community residents will benefit from their efforts.
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Latino Pastoral Action Center
Latino Pastoral Action Center
State Program
Raymond Rivera
President and CEO
14 West 170th Street
Bronx, NY, 10452
phone: 718-681-2361
fax: 718-681-2360
Issue Areas: Education
AmeriCorps Members improve the literacy of 150 5-7year old students through
a comprehensive school day and extended day program. Additionally, members
improve the academic performance of 150 6-14 year olds through an after
school program. Members also serve to increase the access and use of
community services by 100 youth and their family members.
YouthBuild Brownsville-Brooklyn
YouthBuild Brownsville-Brooklyn
National Direct
Yaniyah Pearson
Executive Director
1757 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11213
phone: 718-221-1414
fax: 718-221-0404
[email protected]
YouthBuild USA, Inc., is a national non-profit organization that engages
educationally at risk youth in a combination of service and youth development
activities. The service activities focus primarily on renovating houses and
buildings for the homeless and low income families. YouthBuild USA has a
substantial number of affiliate organizations across the country. Members serve
directly with community based organizations to rehabilitate abandoned housing
and build new homes for homeless people, persons with HIV/AIDS, the
physically challenges, and low income families. They build awareness of
community issues and generate volunteers for local service projects.
Sunset Park Pamily Health Center Network
Community HealthCorps
National Direct
Orianne Sharir
Director
150-55th St., Station 20
Brooklyn, NY, 11220
phone: 718-630-7349
fax: 718-492-5090
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs
The Sunset Park Family Health Center Network is a large community health
center serving the low income and medically underserved communities of
southwest Brooklyn. In conjunction with the National Association of
Community Health Centers, a non-profit organization which provides
professional support services for over 800 community health centers
nationwide, AmeriCorps members link individuals in Brooklyn with our health
centers through referral, education, and follow-up programs. Members also link
primary care patients to other health and social service organizations.
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TechCorps
State Program
Georgianna Glose
300 Jay Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11201
phone: 718-260-5173
fax: 718-260-5446
Issue Areas: Education
AmeriCorps members serve in various sites in the Ft. Green area of Brooklyn
and focus on literacy and the school success of children. Thirty members will
tutor, mentor and assist with child development activities in after school sites,
fifteen members will support the America Reads initiative, and five Members
will assist parents in the development of computer literacy.
Church Avenue Merchants Association, Inc. (CAMBA)
Brooklyn's Healthy AmeriCorps
State Program
Brian Corrigan
Program Director
2211 Church Avenue
Brooklyn, NY, 11226
phone: 718-826-3967
fax: 718-826-6013
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs, Child/Youth
AmeriCorps Members provide education in parenting, HIV and pregnancy and
assistance in managed care for 100 low-income high-risk parents and teens in
Brooklyn, New York. Members also provide health education for local children
and youth from 100 families. Expected impacts include reduced incidence of
childhood illness of targeted population; 75% of teens will reduce their high
risk behaviors; 75% of families will demonstrate that they are receiving better
health care.
Canisius College
Northeastern University/Canisius College
National Direct
Mark Notaro
Site Director
2001 Main Street
Buffalo, NY, 14208
phone: 716-888-3252
fax: 716-888-3190
Issue Areas: Education, Public Safety
The Northeastern University Center for Sport in Society increases awareness of
sport's relation to society and develops programs that identify current problems
and offer solutions promoting the benefit of sport. The Center, founded in 1984,
designed the program models used by sites: Project TEAMWORK (conflict
resolution) and Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) concerning
gender-based violence. President Clinton recognized TEAMWORK as a
national model in 1994. AmeriCorps Members recruit college and high school
students to tutor and mentor school-age youth during full-time summer and
year-round after school programs. The full-time Members train part-time
Members and community volunteers in curriculum development and tutoring
skills and all Members expand the program's partnership with families, schools
and community agencies.
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Buffalo Place Foundation
AmeriCorps Ranger Escort Program
State Program
Joyce Emke
671 Main Street
Buffalo, NY, 14203
phone: 716-856-3150
fax: 716-852-8490
buffaloplace@compuserve
Issue Areas: Public Safety
AmeriCorps Members increase public safety visibility and effectiveness
through identifying potential crimes and patrolling the streets of downtown
Buffalo. Expected impacts include a 10% decrease in crime and a 20% increase
in the perception of a safer downtown area. Additionally, members provide
safety escorts for 500 people and distribute safety tips to 3000 people.
SUNY College of Technology at Delhi
Catskill Outdoor Education Corps
State Program
Thomas Ostrom
Farrell Hall Room 13 B
Delhi, NY, 13753
phone: 607-746-4061
fax: 607-746-4346
Issue Areas: Education, Environment
AmeriCorps members will develop an outdoor recreation/education facility in
the Catskill Mountains in association with SUNY College. Members will clear
or construct hiking trails, picnic areas, gardens, natural areas, and an
amphitheater. Member service will provide the community with an information
clearinghouse on outdoor education and recreation; opportunities for outdoor
recreation skill development; and a natural laboratory to study the environment.
Families First in Essex County
Families First in Essex County
State Program
John Haverick
Executive Director
Water Street
Elizabethtown, NY, 12932
phone: 518-873-9544
fax: 518-873-9570
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs, Education
AmeriCorps Members serve in eleven agencies throughout Essex County to
address all five goals of the Summit as well as the human needs of its citizens.
Members tutor, mentor, and counsel youth, train parents of youth with
disabilities and provide educational support to older adolescents. Program goals
are to improve the academic and behavioral performance of students in schools
and to increase the numbers of community agencies and businesses that
collaborate.
Seneca Nation of Indians
The Strengthening Foundations Project
Tribe Territory
Dean Seneca
1490 Rt. 438
Irving, NY, 14081
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fax: 716-673-3332
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Environment, Child/Youth
Members provide culturally appropriate tutoring to 200 youth grades 7-12
during the school year to improve their grades by at least a grade level. Summer
component includes environmental clean up and reforestation activities, with a
minimum of 50 cords of wood to be distributed to elders. Seneca language and
culture will be emphasized in member training and community activities. This
program serves two Seneca reservations 40 miles apart in rural upstate New
York.
On Your Marks, Summerbridge
On Your Marks Summerbridge National Direct
Pascale Pierre-Louis
Assistant Director
Friends Academy
Duck Pond Road
Locust Valley, NY, 11560
phone: 516-393-4283
fax: 516-671-2025
pascale [email protected]
Issue Areas: Education
Summerbridge National promotes school success while preparing students for
high-school programs and developing high school and college students as future
educators. Summerbridge National AmeriCorps Members provided tutoring and
mentoring support in after-school, weekend, and summer settings, provided
enrichment class instruction, provided service and service-learning
opportunities for elementary, middle, secondary school and college students,
and cultivated young educators.
The Institute for Human Services, Inc.
AmeriCorps Kids First Initiative/Steuben County
State Program
Julie Lawson
28 Main Street
Main Street, NY, 14801
phone: 607-359-2134
fax: 607-359-2113
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs, Education, Public Safety, Child/Youth
Twenty AmeriCorps members serve in single site placements throughout rural
Stuben County supporting various goals of the Summit. Members provide 3750
of the county's youth with positive role models and alternative activities
through tutoring, mentoring, and planned activities. Members ensure that youth
and their families receive the support needed to succeed in and stay in school.
Additionally, members provide support to ensure that children have safe and
healthy home environments and behaviors. Specific member services include
providing safe places, substance abuse prevention counseling, adolescent
pregnancy training, health care counseling, and alternative after school
activities.
Research Foundation of SUNY-New Paltz
AmeriCorps Education Awards Program
Education Award Only
Tonda Highley
Project Director
Career Advising and Fieldwork Center
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New Paltz, NY, 12561-2499
fax: 914-257-3265
fax: 914-257-3674
Issue Areas: Education, Child/Youth
Members provide tutoring and literacy assistance to 500+ youth; after school,
weekend, and summer activities in 4 community centers; and involve youth in
community service efforts.
Phoenix House of California
NSASC c/o Phoenix House of California, Inc.
National Direct Central
Chari Anhouse
National Substance Abuse Service Corps
164 West 74th Street
New York, NY, 10023
phone: 212-595-5810
fax: 212-496-6035
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Public Safety, Other Human Needs
Phoenix House is one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most respected
substance abuse prevention and treatment providers. They are dedicated to:
helping individuals address alcohol and other drug abuse; devising innovative
solutions to meet emerging issues; and training staff, both their own and those
from other agencies. The National Substance Abuse Service Corps is a
collaborative effort of substance and alcohol abuse treatment and prevention
programs and educational institutions. It seeks to expand and improve the local
networks of substance and alcohol abuse treat and prevention services.
Jumpstart New York City
Jumpstart for Young Children, Inc.
National Direct
David Carmel
Site Director
17 West 17th Street, 8th Floor
New York, NY, 10011-5510
fax: 212-929-9232
fax: 212-366-6971
david [email protected]
Issue Areas: Education
Jumpstart is a non-profit specifically geared to providing school readiness
activities to children and their families, while providing young people who are
mostly college students with a training program that results in early childhood
certification. Jumpstart engages young people in service to their communities
by preparing pre-school age children to enter school. Members are paired with a
pre-school child, engaging the child and their families in school readiness
activities, particularly around early childhood literacy. Members garner
community interest and support through an annual Children Across the City day
where parents, their children, and other community members are introduced to a
variety of learning activities for preschool age children.
New Visions for Public Schools
Project FIRST, National Direct
Beth Lief
Program Officer
96 Morton Street
New York, NY, 10014
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fax: 212-645-2836
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, The Public Education Network (PEN) represents the
largest network of community-based organizations focused on providing
high-quality public education opportunities for students. PEN provides the
technical, monitoring and fiscal support needed by 76 local education funds in
27 states and Washington, DC, to create model programs and initiatives. Project
FIRST AmeriCorps Members refurbish and install technological components
related to Internet access in schools, and assist educators, students and adult
learners in using the technology. Members also provide direct instructional
support at schools and community forums.
Youth Action Programs and Homes, Inc.
Youth Action Youthbuild AmeriCorps
National Direct
Elijah Eltheridge
218 East 106th Street
New York, NY, 10029
phone: 212-860-8170
fax: 212-860-8894
[email protected]
Children and Youth
YouthBuild USA, Inc., is a national non-profit organization that engages
educationally at risk youth in a combination of service and youth development
activities. The service activities focus primarily on renovating houses and
buildings for the homeless and low income families. YouthBuild USA has a
substantial number of affiliate organizations across the country. Members serve
directly with community based organizations to rehabilitate abandoned housing
and build new homes for homeless people, persons with HIV/AIDS, the
physically challenges, and low income families. They build awareness of
community issues and generate volunteers for local service projects.
I Have A Dream Foundation-New York
I Have a Dream Foundation-New York/AmeriCorps
National Direct
Donald Hatcher
Program Director
330 Seventh Ave.
New York, NY, 10001
phone: 212-293-5480
fax: 212-293-5478
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education
The I Have a Dream Foundation (IHAD) model connects individuals who want
to sponsor a group of children with neighborhood in need. An entire elementary
school class or an age group in a housing project become Dreamers and receive
academic and social support designed to see them through high school and into
productive lives. Those Dreamers who graduate from high school are eligible
for college or vocational school tuition assistance. Members enable (IHAD)
sites to intensify their outreach to Dreamers, their families and the community.
In addition to tutoring and mentoring, providing academic and social
enrichment, members recruit and train community volunteers, organize family
involvement activities and lead Dreamers in community service projects.
New York LISC, New York City LISC AmeriCorps
National Direct
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Carmen Maldonado
733 Third Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY, 10017
phone: 212-455-9336
fax: 212-687-1396
Issue Areas: Environment, Other Human Needs
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation is a national non profit organization
that provides funding and technical guidance to local Community Development
Corporations (CDC's) which are rebuilding neighborhoods across the nation.
Members engage in community revitalization activities including housing
outreach and education, job training, youth education programs, neighborhood
planning, and human services planning.
New York / Teach For America, Inc.
Teach for America
National Direct
Cami Anderson
Executive Director
126 East 31st Street
4th Floor
New York, NY, 10016
phone: 212-532-2563
fax: 212-532-2611
Issue Areas: Education
Teach for America (TFA) is a national teacher corps dedicated to improving
educational achievement of under-served school age youth. TFA places a
diverse group of recent college graduates as teachers in urban and rural school
districts facing critical teacher shortages. AmeriCorps Members teach
under-served youth at inner-city and rural public schools. Members assume
leadership roles on school committees, sponsoring after school enrichment and
recreational opportunities. Members also coordinate and implement service
projects addressing specific community needs.
AmeriCorps 100 New York
AmeriCorps fax: 100-New York
National Direct
Luther Gatling
President
105 East 22nd Street
9th Floor
New York, NY, 10010
phone: 212-777-7070
Issue Areas: Education, Public Safety, Other Human Needs
The 100 Black Men of America, Inc. (The 100) is a membership organization of
professional African American men formed in 1986 and has 77 chapters
nationally and internationally. The 100 focuses on providing exemplary role
models through local community service and mentoring to children in at-risk
environments. The AmeriCorps 100 program will improve the quality of life for
K-12 youth in underserved communities by enhancing their ability to be
academically and socially competitive. Through tutoring and mentoring,
students' academic performance will improve, school attendance will increase
and youth will have more opportunities to participate in community service.
Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families
The Harlem Children's Zone
State Program
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Rasuli Lewis
2770 Broadway
New York, NY, 10025
phone: 212-866-0700
fax: 212-932-2965
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Environment, Public Safety, Other Human Needs, ,AmeriCorps
members provide in-class and after school literacy-based and conflict resolution
training for children in grades 1-5 in three elementary schools in Harlem, NY.
Additionally, AmeriCorps members will address community needs by
supporting family literacy, providing crises support to families, developing a
Community Safety Task Force, and improving the physical environment of the
Harlem Children's Zone.
Phoenix House Foundation, Inc.
New York State Substance Abuse Service Program
State Program
Keith Brown
33 West 60th Street, 5th Floor
New York, NY, 10023
phone: 212-757-2100, ext. 6991
fax: 212-757-2208
Issue Areas: Education, Public Safety, Other Human Needs
The Phoenix House AmeriCorps program expands and improves the network of
substance abuse and alcohol treatment/prevention services available to New
Yorkers. Members assist various communities by developing linkages between
treatment providers, organizations, and schools. Members provide substance
abuse prevention counseling and education to community residents, including
individuals in recovery, educators, school-aged youth and parents.
YMCA of Greater New York
YMCA AmeriCorps School Success Program
State Program
Julie Morales
Program Director
333 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY, 10001
phone: 212-828-4857
fax: 212-876-3782
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education
YMCA School Success program is an extended day youth-based program
where 72 AmeriCorps Members facilitate classroom-based service activities
and enrichment activities in 12 low-performing schools. Members also lead
physical fitness and health awareness activities and provide community
service-learning activities. Expected impact includes, 120 service projects, a
5-percent increase in student reading and math scores, and a 15-percent increase
in student fitness levels.
Fund for the City of New York (Red Hook)
State Program
Adam Mansky
351 West 54th, 2nd
New York, NY, 10019
phone: 212-373-8093
fax: 212-262-3890
[email protected]
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Issue Areas: Public Safety
AmeriCorps members serve in three teams to address the public safety needs of
the community. Members serve either on the Community (C) Team to address
public safety in public places and the upkeep of green spaces, the Unity (U)
Team for mediation services, or the Family (F) Team that focuses on the safety
of children during and after school. The program has established strong
partnerships with the justice system, local police, and victim services agencies.
Grand Street Settlement
AmeriCorps
State Program
Pablo Tejada
Program Director
80 Pitt Street
New York, NY, 10002
phone: 212-505-6338
fax: 212-505-5660
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Public Safety
40 part time AmeriCorps members serve in various sites throughout the lower
east side of Manhattan. Members address school safety, school readiness and
school success issues of community residents. By escorting youth to after
school activities, program attendance has increased. Service in the Early Head
Start Program and work with parents support family literacy and school
readiness. Members also provide homework assistance, computer training, and
one to one tutoring to promote school success.
The Parks Council
Public Space for Public Life: Parks Council and National Audobon Society
AmeriCorps Initiative
State Program
Sean Andrews
Director of the Parks Council Green Neighborhoods Program
457 Madison Avenue, 6th Floor
New York, NY, 10022
phone: 212-838-9410 x240
fax: 212-371-6048
Issue Areas: Environment, Education
AmeriCorps members support the creation, reclamation and restoration of
neighborhood parks and public spaces in New York City, including a wetland
park and a 10 acre forested area in Queens. Additionally, members engage
elementary school students in building science and math skills through
exploration of the natural world using the National Audubon Society
curriculum. Members will build five new science gardens at schools in
Manhattan, engage public school students in applied science research and
environmental restoration projects, and involve students in observing bird life
in their communities.
New York Restoration Project
Don't Trash New York
State Program
Joseph Pupello
President
1290 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
New York
NY 10104
phone: 212-258-2333
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[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Environment
AmeriCorps members focus on environmental clean-up in New York City.
Members clean, create, restore and maintain 350 acres of parkland; provide
neighborhood ecology at 2 outdoor science learning facilities for 1000 students;
build a boat with community students; engage community leaders in the
creation of a plan for sustainability; and link public spaces to the public
education system.
City College of the City University of NewYork
City College's Empowering Communities Program
State Program
Marina Fernando
138th Street & Convent Avenue
New York, NY, 10031
phone: 212-650-5418
fax: 212-650-7906
Issue Areas: Education, Child/Youth
AmeriCorps Members from the City College of New York facilitate a
community service learning program that increases community members'
computer skills and school success. Members train community members in
computer skills, tutor students after-school, and work with parents to involve
them more their child's education. Expected impacts include: Community
members will be trained in computer skills and targeted youth will show an
improvement in college preparatory skills.
Pace University
Lower East Side/Chinatown AmeriCorps
State Program
Margaret Boyle
Director Center for Urban Education
One Pace Plaza
New York, NY, 10038
phone: 212-346-1107
fax: 212-346-1078
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education
11 part-time and 46 reduced part-time members serve the primarily Asian
community in Lower Eastside NYC. Members tutor and mentor low achieving
junior high students to improve their grades and attendance; provide college and
career counseling to high school students and their parents to increase the rate
of h.s. graduation, college matriculation and career/employment options; and
provide service-learning opportunities to students to help them increase their
problem solving skills.
Teachers for Tomorrow, Inc.
Teachers for Tomorrow
Education Award Only
Katherine Stevens
Executive Director
52 Vanderbilt Avenue
2nd Floor
New York, NY, 10017
phone: 212-885-6997
fax: 212-599-3493
Issue Areas: Education, Child/Youth
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Members serve as Teaching Fellows in year long apprenticeships to mentor
teachers in schools throughout New York City. The goal is to provide Fellows
the opportunity to learn the art of teaching from leading educators. Outcome
goals are to strengthen the educational success of disadvantaged public school
students and increase the number of talented young people who pursue careers
as urban school teachers.
Harlem Independent Living Center
CREATING OPPORTUNITY
State Program
James Billy
5-15 West 125th Street
New York, NY, 10027
phone: 212-369-2371
fax: 212-369-9283
Harlemilc.aol.com
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs, Child/Youth
AmeriCorps Members serve in a consortium of six Independent Living Centers
that serve the disabled community throughout New York City. Members focus
their service activities in three areas: housing, youth, and the 10th anniversary
of ADA 2000. Specifically, some members will develop a database to identify
250 accessible housing units and help landlords as well as realtors learn ways of
increasing housing accessibility. Other members provide mentoring, peer
counseling and information referral to 150 youth to help 60% transition from
High School. Regarding the ADA 2000, members educate and inform 500
individuals and organizations and engage 150 actively in planning the event.
HILC is the lead agency in this consortium.
Ecumenical Program for Urban Service (EPRUS)
Education Awards Program of EPRUS
Education Award Only
Doran Porter
Managing Director
475 Riverside Drive
Room: 832-A
New York, NY, 10115-0050
fax: 212-870-2631
fax: 212-870-3341
Issue Areas: Education, Public Safety, Other Human Needs, Child/Youth
Members provide mentoring, skill-learning, employment, education, healthy
start, safe places, and volunteer generation activities.
Habitat for Humanity--New York City
New York City Habitat* AmeriCorps
National Direct
Kelly Smith
Volunteer Director
115 23rd Street
New York, NY, 10010
phone: 212 358 7955
212 358 7959
Habitat for Humanity is a non profit organization incorporated in 1976 in rural
Georgia. Its mission is to build affordable housing for low income people,
requiring that the prospective homeowner contribute sweat equity hours by
working on both her and her neighbor's home. The houses are built by
volunteers and with donated funds and materials. Habitat has grown to include
more than 900 affiliates in the United States and 40 countries. Members
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construct and rebuild homes and buildings, including single family dwellings in
urban communities. They provide crew leadership, recruit and work with
community volunteers, educate homeowners on settlement procedures and basic
home repair, and conduct community needs assessment.
Opportunities Unlimited of Niagara
The ARC'S AMERICORPS PROJECT-NIAGARA, National Direct
Lisa Pirinelli
Project Coordinator
719 Ashland Ave.
Niagara Falls, NY, 14301
phone: 716-282-0257
fax: 716-282-5654
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs
The Arc of the United States is the nation's largest volunteer organization solely
devoted to improving the welfare of Americans with mental retardation and
their families, working through 1200 chapters across the nation. AmeriCorps
Members mentor individuals with mental retardation on a one-to-one basis,
teach independent living skills, and assist integration into community life.
Members serve as liaisons between the community and disabled persons and
educate community groups, local businesses and the general public about the
needs of developmentally disabled.
Bank Street College of Education
AmeriCorps Community Service Internship
Education Award Only
Barbara Coleman
Program Director
610 West 112 Street
NY, NY, 10025
phone: 212-875-4472
fax: 212-875-4759
Issue Areas: Education, Child/Youth
Members provide classroom and after-school literacy training & reading/
tutoring support for 700+ elementary school students who do not perform at
grade level.
SUNY Oneonta Research Foundation
Oneonta Rural School Empowerment Program
State Program
Cathy Martinez
Project Director
207 Alumni Hall
Oneonta, NY, 13820
phone: 607-436-2651
fax: 607-436-2760
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education
AmeriCorps members improve the school success of youth in Oneonta County.
Focusing on reading and math, members tutor and mentor 900 students in
school and engage 450 students in after school and evening programs.
Additionally, through the development of 15 Youth Leaders in Action service
clubs, members provide leadership training for 225 youth.
Oswego City-County Youth Bureau
Oswego AmeriCorps Program
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State Program
Kathleen Andolina
Oswego AmeriCorps Program Coordinator
70 Bunner Street
Oswego, NY, 13126
phone: 315-349-3451
fax: 315-349-3231
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs, Child/Youth, Education
AmeriCorps members serve in multiple agencies throughout Oswego County to
provide positive prevention services to youth and families. Members assist
youth and families with basic needs that permit self sufficiency such as with
food, clothing, shelter, child care and safety. Additionally members provide
school readiness, literacy readiness and tutoring opportunities by supporting
parents of preschoolers, assisting with in-school and after school activities, and
establishing a summer reading program for elementary students. Members also
provide positive alternatives and relationships for youth and their families by
developing a youth leadership program, establishing parent support groups and
developing meaningful community service projects. Members will serve at least
2000 youth and their families.,
Peekskill Area Health Center
Community Health Corps
National Direct
Anne Kauffman Nolon
MPH/President & CEO
1037 Main Street
Peekskill, NY, 10566
phone: 914-734-8747
fax: 914-734-8745
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs
The National Association of Community Health Centers is a non-profit
organization which provides professional support services for over 800
community health centers that furnish needed preventive and primary health
care to medically underserved communities through over 2,000 sites
nationwide. AmeriCorps Members link individuals in under-served
communities with health centers through referral, education, and follow-up
programs. Members also link primary care patients to other health and social
service organizations.
NY SARC Nassau County
AHRC Adult Day Services Program
State Program
Jo Ann Weiss
115 East Bethpage Rd
Plainview, NY, 11803
phone: 516-293-1111
fax: 516-293-1877
Issue Areas: Homebound Elderly, Other Human Needs
Thirty 2 Year Part-Time AmeriCorps Members provide shopping services and
companionship to homebound elderly and/or disabled citizens and respite care
services for the care givers of disabled adults. Members, who themselves are
disabled, work in teams with college students who are fulfilling their college
community service requirements. This program links and integrates adults with
developmental disabilities with college students and the elderly homebound
population in need of services resulting in 75% of each population gaining a
better understanding and acceptance of each other.
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Ulster YouthBuild Partnership
YouthBuild USA Multi-State AmeriCorps Initiative
National Direct
Bonnie Landi
YouthBuild Director
Rt. 9W
Port Ewen, NY, 12466
phone: 914-331-6680
fax: 914-331-4655
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs
YouthBuild USA, Inc., is a national non-profit organization that engages
educationally at risk youth in a combination of service and youth development
activities. The service activities focus primarily on renovating houses and
buildings for the homeless and low income families. YouthBuild USA has a
substantial number of affiliate organizations across the country. Members serve
directly with community based organizations to rehabilitate abandoned housing
and build new homes for homeless people, persons with HIV/AIDS, the
physically challenges, and low income families. They build awareness of
community issues and generate volunteers for local service projects.
/ Youth Resource Development Corporation (YRDC)
YRDC AmeriCorps
State Program
Joel Greenbaum
Executive Director
98 Cannon Street
Poughkeepsie, NY, 12601
phone: 914-473-5005
fax: 914-473-5045
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Environment, Public Safety, Other Human Needs,
Child/Youth,AmeriCorps members focus on academic success and
environmental revitalization by engaging youth in service. Members mentor
and provide after-school care, summer and workplace learning opportunities for
youth and persons with disabilities. Additionally members tutor and teach
literacy skills to youth at schools and community centers that have significant
concentrations of low income students. Members also serve to help reduce the
crime against and by youth by introducing conflict resolution and violence
prevention skills. Using service-learning activities, members engage youth in
environmental projects such as community gardening, making play grounds and
public spaces cleaner and safer, and environmental stewardship.
Student Conservation Association NY, NY Adirondack Youth
Conservation AmeriCorps
State Program
Robert Coates
Route 86
Ray Brook, NY, 12977
phone: 518-897-1211
fax: 518-899-1394
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Environment
AmeriCorps members serve in a residential environmental conservation
program in the Adirondacks region. Members build, repair, refurbish and
restore recreational and natural areas such as hiking trails, camp grounds,
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recreational and historic buildings. Additionally, members use service learning
models to provide environmental and ecological education for fax: 400-800
in-school, after school, and out of school youth. 60-100 volunteers will be
recruited and trained to assist with these activities.
NYS Office of Children & Family Services
Governor's Innovative School Violence Prevention Program
State Program
Richard Nells
Associate Commissioner Program Support
NYS Office of Children and Families Services
52 Washington St
Rensselaer, NY, 12144
phone: 518-472-3181
fax: 518-474-9452
Issue Areas: Public Safety, Child/Youth
Twenty full time AmeriCorps members serve to reduce the number of violent
incidents (including physical, verbal and mental abuse) that youth impose on
others and to decrease the incidence of violence in schools and youth center
settings. Approximately 400 youth, between pre-school and high school, learn
principles of anger control, non-violent resolution of problems, early warning
signs of rage, improved communication techniques, and empathy/understanding
of others. As a result of member service, students grades will increase and
absenteeism will decline. Additionally, corps members will engage the
community in ways that help them develop more positive attitudes and images
of youth as well as increase the local interest in developing new youth services.
Monroe County Legal Assistance
Homelessness Prevention
National Direct
Leanna Hart Gipson
Executive Director
80 St. Paul Street
Suite 700
Rochester, NY, 14604
phone: 716-325-2520
fax: 716-325-2559
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs
The National Association of Public Interest Law (NAPIL) is a national coalition
of law student organizations that offers grants and other forms of assistance to
students and recent graduates engaged in public interest employment. It works
with member organizations to create public interest legal employment and
training opportunities, remove the economic barriers that confront public
interest lawyers, and provide informational resources for public service work.
Members secure affordable housing for low income families, assist domestic
violence victims, and coordinate projects to prevent homelessness.
Monroe Community College
State Program
Marilyn Rosche
Project Director
Damon City Campus
228 East Main Street
Rochester, NY, 14604
phone: 716-262-1778
fax: 716-262-1565
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Issue Areas: Public Safety, Education
94 full-time AmeriCorps Members serve in 25 community-based organizations
in Rochester, New York's Enterprise Community. The purpose of this program
is to increase the reality and perception of public safety in the community.
Members provide assistance to police substations, prevention and intervention
education to youth around issues of substance abuse and conflict resolution, and
implement positive developmental and community service activities with
neighborhood youth. Expected impacts include: a 20% increase in geographic
area covered by Neighborhood Watch and block clubs; a 20% increase in
contacts at police substations; a reported increase in intervention/prevention
services offered to youth; and a 10% increase in numbers of youths
participating in targeted activities.
Rural Opportunities, Inc. (New York)
National Farmworker Environmental Education Program
National Direct
Michel Attia
Migrant Occupational Safety Training Administrator
339 East Avenue #401
Rochester, NY, 14504
phone: 716 546 6325
716 546 7337
[email protected]
Founded in 1971, the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
coordinates national projects benefiting farmworkers and farmworker
organizations. Since 1992, the Association has been funded to train farmworker
program staff on pesticide safety for farmworkers and the requirements of the
Environmental Protection Agency Worker Protection Standards. The
Association provides its member organizations with technical assistance,
training and information. AmeriCorps members train migrant and seasonal
farmworkers in methods of reducing their exposure to pesticides and accessing
health, education, and supportive services. Members become state-certified
safety trainers.
Schenectady County Job Training Agency
The Schenectady Bridge Builders
State Program
334 State Street
Schenectady, NY, 12305
phone: 518-382-5951
fax: 518-382-5988
Issue Areas: Environment, Education, Public Safety, Other Human Needs
AmeriCorps Members serve in teams to tutor students in grades K-3; mentor
youth in after school programs in conflict resolution, personal safety, and drug
resistance; rehabilitate 2 single family low income houses; and construct
community paths and revitalize nature trails. As a result of the tutoring services
provided to 2000 students and family members, ninety five percent of the
participating students will be able to read independently by age 8. Additionally,
forty percent of parents will complete activities at home to strengthen student
reading skills. Three hundred youth will learn new skills improve their attitudes
and behavior. Two low or moderate income families will own newly renovated
homes, not otherwise available to them. The community parks will be more
accessible to the public as well as to the disabled community. Volunteers will
contribute 100 hours to a greenhouse and community gardens.
Self Advocacy Association of New York
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State Program
Stephen Holmes
Administrative Coordintor
Capital District DSO, Bldg. 10 Balltown & Consaul
Schenectady, NY, 12304
phone: 518-382-1454
fax: 518-382-1594
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Disability awareness/ community inclusion of people
with disabilities., Other Human Needs
6AmeriCorps members, with developmental and other disabilities, give
disability awareness presentations to at least 3000 students with and without
disabilities and teachers in order to increase the acceptance and inclusion of
students with disabilities. Additionally, members provide sensitivity awareness
training for 1600 staff of organizations that support individuals with disabilities
and to 3000 individuals from other civic, government or community groups. In
addition to increasing community awareness and sensitivity, member service
will improve the involvement and employment opportunities of people with
disabilities and strengthen their self advocacy skills.
Syracuse Com. Hlth. Center
Syracuse Community Health Center-HealthCorps
National Direct
Joan Francis
Project Director
819 South Salina Street
Syracuse, NY, 13202
phone: 315-476-7921
fax: 315-475-1448
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs
The National Association of Community Health Centers is a non-profit
organization which provides professional support services for over 800
community health centers that furnish needed preventive and primary health
care to medically underserved communities through over 2,000 sites
nationwide. AmeriCorps Members link individuals in under-served
communities with health centers through referral, education, and follow-up
programs. Members also link primary care patients to other health and social
service organizations.
Syracuse Area Catholic Charities
Syracuse Area Catholic Charities AmeriCorps Program
State Program
Beth Scanlon
Syracuse Area Catholic Charities AmeriCorps Program
1654 W. Onondaga Street
Syracuse, NY, 13204
phone: 315-455-7096
fax: 315-455-2352
Issue Areas: Education
AmeriCorps members serve in seven centers in the greater Syracuse, NY region
with attention in three areas: 1) to assist with the early childhood education of
150 3-5 year olds to foster school readiness and school success, 2) to teach and
model prosocial skills to 1200 children 5-18 years and 3) to transport 800 low
income children and women to medical appointments to improve compliance
with medical treatment. Members work with children in schools and in after
school programs. Additionally, members will expand their service to support
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the needs of refugee youth in the area, which includes providing them an
orientation to the community and to the schools, providing support with the
adjustment to a new culture, and teaching ESL and assisting with citizenship
classes.
Syracuse University
Goldberg Marriage and Family Therapy Program
Education Award Only
Anne Gosling
Director of Clinical Training
Slocum 008
MFT Program
Syracuse, NY 13244
phone: 315-443-3026
fax: 315-443-4062
Issue Areas: Other Human Needs, Child/Youth, Public Safety
Members, who are Masters students in the Goldberg Marriage and Family
Therapy program at Syracuse University, provide family therapy to children,
adolescents, couples, individuals and families in central New York addressing
family issues such as domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, family
conflict, marital discord, and poverty.
Family Nurturing Center of Central NY, Family Nurturing Center of
Central NY, Inc.
State Program
Donna LaTour-Elefante
Executive Director
285 Genesee Street
Utica, NY, 13501
phone: 315-738-9773
fax: 315-738-9773
Issue Areas: Education, Other Human Needs
Twenty full time AmeriCorps members provide home-based and community
based parenting education and support services for 250+ low income families.
Members teach and demonstrate ways for parents to provide quality play and
learning activities for children, aged birth to six. Members also provide
education on lead screening, fire safety, accidental injuries and asthma.
Additionally, members provide information and referral services for 600 parents
of low income households. For the 1998-99 program year, the program will
eliminate part time member positions.
West Seneca Youth Bureau-Share the Word
Sharing the Words, America Reads
State Program
Mark Lazzara
620 Main St.
West Seneca, NY, 14224
phone: 716-674-5600
fax: 716-675-2055
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Education, Child/Youth,l partnership with Universities at
Buffalo, Buffalo State College and the King Urban Center, 38 full-time
AmeriCorps Members provide one-on-one tutoring to 2500 at-risk children in
Buffalo, New York. Members will adopt elementary and secondary schools
with low retention rates in order to increase retention through tutoring and
providing public awards for the students' work. Members also design and
implement service projects with these students. Expected impacts include: a
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75% improvement in test scores of students tutored; a 75% satisfaction rate
among service recipients; and a 75% improvement in student retention rate.
West Seneca Youth Bureau-Weed & Seed
Weed & Seed Urban Suburban AmeriCorps (W&S USA)
State Program
Mark Lazzara
Executive Director
620 Main Street
West Seneca, NY, 14224
phone: 716-674-5600
fax: 716-675-2055
[email protected]
Issue Areas: Environment, Education, Public Safety, Other Human Needs,
Health and WellnessChild/Youth
AmeriCorps members conduct health and wellness workshops and community
outreach activities to ensure that 5000 residents and children are provided a
nurturing environment and a healthy start in life. Other members work with
community residents and non-profit organizations to identify and create 15 safe
places for youth. Additionally, members serve to increase the capacity of
existing community organizations and enhance their volunteer efforts by
recruiting 1000 new participants who address the goals of the Summit.
Members will also help form and coordinate junior block clubs to involve 2000
youth in community service.
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New York Times, Metro Edition
February 2, 2000
Volunteers Switch to Indoor Effort
By JODI WILGOREN
This is a story about recycling.
Not cans, bottles and newspapers. But people, energy and lives.
In a way, it is an unremarkable tale. The heroes are rather
ordinary. And that, of course, is the point.
Once upon a time, there was a welfare mother living in the Bronx
named Annette Williams. She had finished high school pregnant at 18, and
gave birth to four children in four years. After they had gone off to
school, Ms. Williams spent a lot of time watching soap operas.
One day in 1989, Ms. Williams saw an advertisement on television
seeking volunteers for local schools. Her daughter was struggling with
reading -- the teachers were talking about putting her in special-education
classes -- and Ms. Williams figured volunteering at school might help her
own family and fill her yawning days.
"I realized that this wasn't what I was supposed to be doing,
sitting home, watching soaps, contributing nothing," said Ms. Williams, now
39, reflecting recently. "We all need to be working. We all need to be
giving something back."
Trained by the New York City School Volunteer Program -- now called
Learning Leaders -- Ms. Williams began reading to children and tutoring
them. She soon became president of the parents' association at Public School
59 (and, later, at her children's middle school and high school). She
brought children outside to plant flowers in a scrappy lot next to the
school, and, that first summer, got a job in a city program that hired
students to clean up parks.
Founded in 1956, the school volunteer program is the oldest group of
its kind in the country, and has more than 9,000 participants -- two-thirds
of them parents of school-age children -- logging nearly a million hours in
schools throughout New York. Most Learning Leaders spend at least two hours
a week visiting classes during the day to tutor students one-on-one or in
small groups on reading, writing and math. A recent study showed that a
third of struggling students in the program reached grade level after a
year.
Today, Ms. Williams is vice president for community outreach of New
York Restoration Project, an environmental group founded by the actress and
singer Bette Midler that maintains and restores seven parks in upper
Manhattan and, last spring, bought 51 community gardens throughout the city
to save them from being auctioned and destroyed.
Ms. Williams earned a bachelor's degree at Touro College, taking
classes four hours a night while working full time -- and, most days,
spending her lunch break reading out loud in local schools.
"I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, didn't have a
focus," Ms. Williams said, remembering the old days. "As a parent, you are a
teacher -- and their first teacher -- but you need tools. New York City
School Volunteers was my tool. It gave me my focus back."
But this story is not just about the reinvention of Ms. Williams.
Others are recycling, too.
The New York Restoration Project is staffed largely by members of
Americorps, the national community service program, who are paid $1,250 a
month -- plus a $4,800 educational grant at year's end -- for doing some of
the dirty work to make the country a better place to live. In this case,
they spend most of their time picking up trash -- 10, 15 bags per person,
per day -- and beautifying parks by painting benches, pruning bushes and
planting seeds.
Ms. Williams knows the work well -- she used to do it herself, until
a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis forced her to leave the field for a desk
job. And she knows that in the cold and snowy winter, there are often gaps
in the gardeners' schedules. So this week, 18 Americorps volunteers are
being recycled as Learning Leaders volunteers, reading to children, tutoring
them, just like Ms. Williams did all those years ago.
Last week, the Americorps crew, in their dirty coveralls and knit
caps, sat around the drafty locker room of the New York Restoration Project,
recalling their best memories and worst nightmares of seventh grade, as part
of a 12-hour training session to become volunteers in schools in East
Harlem. They hope to bridge the generation gap between students and their
parents, and they see connections between the work they are doing in
neglected parks and working with needy students. They welcome the human
contact to break up days dominated by dirt.
"The reason why we are in the parks is because the system doesn't
work," said Roy Luchesse, 28, a drummer from Ozone Park, Queens, who joined
Americorps because he likes to be outdoors. "That's the same reason we're
going to go to the schools: the system isn't working."
Several of the Americorps workers are recent college graduates who
majored in English literature or philosophy and were seeking something
different to do for a year before heading to graduate school. But others are
using the program to recycle their lives. They have come from Idaho, Texas,
Minnesota and tranquil oases of Westchester County to work in Washington
Heights, one of the poorer neighborhoods of the city, and, like Ms. Williams
before them, hope to find new focus.
Derick Jackson, 45, is a reggae musician from the Lower East Side,
who strokes his gray beard as he ponders the connections between tilling the
soil and tutoring young minds. Lisa Navarro, 26, used to help produce soap
operas and is switching to horticulture. William Johnson, 46, spent years,
maybe decades, as a seasonal worker for the city's parks department, and is
dreaming these days of starting his own landscaping business.
For now, they are becoming tutors. Role models. Maybe, even,
friends.
"The kids are our future," said Mr. Johnson, the philosopher of the
group, whom everybody calls Grandpa. "Changing, improving, making better,
working with what we've got, enhancing what is there. The park was there,
we're just making it better. Like the individual child was there, we're just
helping them find themselves."
Ms. Midler, the self-proclaimed compost queen who became an
environmental hero when her organization rescued the community gardens from
the auction block, has already made the link to Learning Leaders. She reads
aloud each spring at Public School 59 -- Annette Williams's old school --
and last year sent students to see "Beauty and the Beast" on Broadway.
"I think one thing leads to another," Ms. Midler said of the move
from parks to schools. "The whole thing is filling in the gaps, picking up
the slack in areas where there's no effort made. When you see the holes, you
want to fill them."
Ms. Williams stopped regularly volunteering in the schools three
years ago, but plans to start again in September, when the youngest of her
six children enters Public School 21. She is also getting married -- to a
park police officer -- this summer, and hopes to someday get a master's
degree and open up a school focused on environmental studies.
"Gardens are food for the soul, but being able to work with kids is
for the soul, too," she said. "I have a lot of things I want to still do.
Recycle myself again."
New York Times, Metro Edition
February 2, 2000
Volunteers Switch to Indoor Effort
By JODI WILGOREN
This is a story about recycling.
Not cans, bottles and newspapers. But people, energy and lives.
In a way, it is an unremarkable tale. The heroes are rather
ordinary. And that, of course, is the point.
Once upon a time, there was a welfare mother living in the Bronx
named Annette Williams. She had finished high school pregnant at 18, and
gave birth to four children in four years. After they had gone off to
school, Ms. Williams spent a lot of time watching soap operas.
One day in 1989, Ms. Williams saw an advertisement on television
seeking volunteers for local schools. Her daughter was struggling with
reading -- the teachers were talking about putting her in special-education
classes -- and Ms. Williams figured volunteering at school might help her
own family and fill her yawning days.
"I realized that this wasn't what I was supposed to be doing,
sitting home, watching soaps, contributing nothing," said Ms. Williams, now
39, reflecting recently. "We all need to be working. We all need to be
giving something back."
Trained by the New York City School Volunteer Program -- now called
Learning Leaders -- Ms. Williams began reading to children and tutoring
them. She soon became president of the parents' association at Public School
59 (and, later, at her children's middle school and high school). She
brought children outside to plant flowers in a scrappy lot next to the
school, and, that first summer, got a job in a city program that hired
students to clean up parks.
Founded in 1956, the school volunteer program is the oldest group of
its kind in the country, and has more than 9,000 participants -- two-thirds
of them parents of school-age children -- logging nearly a million hours in
schools throughout New York. Most Learning Leaders spend at least two hours
a week visiting classes during the day to tutor students one-on-one or in
small groups on reading, writing and math. A recent study showed that a
third of struggling students in the program reached grade level after a
year.
Today, Ms. Williams is vice president for community outreach of New
York Restoration Project, an environmental group founded by the actress and
singer Bette Midler that maintains and restores seven parks in upper
Manhattan and, last spring, bought 51 community gardens throughout the city
to save them from being auctioned and destroyed.
Ms. Williams earned a bachelor's degree at Touro College, taking
classes four hours a night while working full time -- and, most days,
spending her lunch break reading out loud in local schools.
"I didn't know what I wanted to do with my life, didn't have a
focus," Ms. Williams said, remembering the old days. "As a parent, you are a
teacher -- and their first teacher -- but you need tools. New York City
School Volunteers was my tool. It gave me my focus back."
But this story is not just about the reinvention of Ms. Williams.
Others are recycling, too.
The New York Restoration Project is staffed largely by members of
Americorps, the national community service program, who are paid $1,250 a
month -- plus a $4,800 educational grant at year's end -- for doing some of
the dirty work to make the country a better place to live. In this case,
they spend most of their time picking up trash -- 10, 15 bags per person,
per day -- and beautifying parks by painting benches, pruning bushes and
planting seeds.
Ms. Williams knows the work well -- she used to do it herself, until
a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis forced her to leave the field for a desk
job. And she knows that in the cold and snowy winter, there are often gaps
in the gardeners' schedules. So this week, 18 Americorps volunteers are
being recycled as Learning Leaders volunteers, reading to children, tutoring
them, just like Ms. Williams did all those years ago.
Last week, the Americorps crew, in their dirty coveralls and knit
caps, sat around the drafty locker room of the New York Restoration Project,
recalling their best memories and worst nightmares of seventh grade, as part
of a 12-hour training session to become volunteers in schools in East
Harlem. They hope to bridge the generation gap between students and their
parents, and they see connections between the work they are doing in
neglected parks and working with needy students. They welcome the human
contact to break up days dominated by dirt.
"The reason why we are in the parks is because the system doesn't
work," said Roy Luchesse, 28, a drummer from Ozone Park, Queens, who joined
Americorps because he likes to be outdoors. "That's the same reason we're
going to go to the schools: the system isn't working."
Several of the Americorps workers are recent college graduates who
majored in English literature or philosophy and were seeking something
different to do for a year before heading to graduate school. But others are
using the program to recycle their lives. They have come from Idaho, Texas,
Minnesota and tranquil oases of Westchester County to work in Washington
Heights, one of the poorer neighborhoods of the city, and, like Ms. Williams
before them, hope to find new focus.
Derick Jackson, 45, is a reggae musician from the Lower East Side,
who strokes his gray beard as he ponders the connections between tilling the
soil and tutoring young minds. Lisa Navarro, 26, used to help produce soap
operas and is switching to horticulture. William Johnson, 46, spent years,
maybe decades, as a seasonal worker for the city's parks department, and is
dreaming these days of starting his own landscaping business.
For now, they are becoming tutors. Role models. Maybe, even,
friends.
"The kids are our future," said Mr. Johnson, the philosopher of the
group, whom everybody calls Grandpa. "Changing, improving, making better,
working with what we've got, enhancing what is there. The park was there,
we're just making it better. Like the individual child was there, we're just
helping them find themselves."
Ms. Midler, the self-proclaimed compost queen who became an
environmental hero when her organization rescued the community gardens from
the auction block, has already made the link to Learning Leaders. She reads
aloud each spring at Public School 59 -- Annette Williams's old school --
and last year sent students to see "Beauty and the Beast" on Broadway.
"I think one thing leads to another," Ms. Midler said of the move
from parks to schools. "The whole thing is filling in the gaps, picking up
the slack in areas where there's no effort made. When you see the holes, you
want to fill them."
Ms. Williams stopped regularly volunteering in the schools three
years ago, but plans to start again in September, when the youngest of her
six children enters Public School 21. She is also getting married -- to a
park police officer -- this summer, and hopes to someday get a master's
degree and open up a school focused on environmental studies.
"Gardens are food for the soul, but being able to work with kids is
for the soul, too," she said. "I have a lot of things I want to still do.
Recycle myself again."
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2000 AmeriCorps Digital Divide Program Overview
Nine Star Enterprises, Inc.
$115,608 to support 10 AmeriCorps members
Anchorage, AK
10 AmeriCorps members serve in 8 technology centers located in schools and community-based
organizations to provide computer software skills development through tutoring or small group
instruction to 2,400 low-income children, youth, and adults living in economically disadvantaged
neighborhoods in Anchorage.
City of Selma
$234,000 to support 20 AmeriCorps members
Selma, AL
AmeriCorps members provide computer technology training to public school teachers, staff and
volunteers so that they can incorporate the use of computers so that they improve their academic
performance or develop greater interest in the Information Technology field. Member service
activities will also help establish computer resource centers in five public housing communities.
Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative (SEARK)
$374,400 to support 32 AmeriCorps members
Monticello, AR
AmeriCorps members assist teacher in developing technology skills. Members provide support
services and demonstrate hands-on application of skills to meet classroom instructional needs. It
is anticipated that teachers will use their improved technology skills to improve instruction and
classroom management. Additionally, members provide students with technology assistance
weekly.
Access to Software for All People (ASAP)
$440,167 to support 30 full-time and 5 part-time AmeriCorps members
Berkeley, CA
35 AmeriCorps members develop, design, and implement technology enhanced curriculum for
450 3rd-5th grade students from 2 Berkeley schools resulting in 80% of students increasing their
technology competency.
Volunteer Florida Community Literacy
$314,608 to support 27 AmeriCorps members
Tallahassee, FL
AmeriCorps members are reducing the digital divide in six rural counties by increasing
community access to current computer technology. Members refurbish 500 pre-owned
computers for at least 20 computer labs in low-performing schools, non-profit organizations, and
programs that serve persons with disabilities. Members also lead 120 workshops targeted at
helping teachers, community members, and persons with disabilities to use computers, software
applications, and the internet. Of the 1,200 youth taught by AmeriCorps members in the
computer labs at school, at least 80% will indicate improved computer skills.
Communities in Schools
$210,185 to support 20 AmeriCorps members
Thomasville, GA
AmeriCorps members provide daily computer training and technical assistance to youth at
Parental Information Resources Centers, Local Technology Centers, and in Youth Detention
Centers at thirteen sites around Georgia in order to improve students' academic performance in
reading and math and to increase students' use of computer and internet resources. Members
also provide computer training to teachers in the Youth Detention Centers so that they increase
their computer usage with their students.
Lake County Public Library
$125,091 to support 20 part-time AmeriCorps members
Merrillville, IN
20 part-time AmeriCorps members serve in the Lake County Public Library system in one of
thirteen sites. Members serve during after school times to assist community members and youth
to access the internet for research purposes.
Housing Authority of the City of Annapolis (HACA)
$139,995 to support 24 AmeriCorps members
Annapolis, MD
AmeriCorps members serve in communities providing one-on-one tutoring to up to 100 children
by helping them expand their competencies in information technology, thereby aiding in school
and later workplace success.
Civic Works, Inc.
$116,535 to support 10 AmeriCorps members
Baltimore, MD
AmeriCorps members serve at three neighborhood centers, Park Heights, Upper Fells Point, and
the Goodnow Police Athletic League (PAL), in order to provide structured and drop-in computer
training for children and adults. Sessions will focus on computer basics, keyboarding skills,
Internet usage and spreadsheets resulting in an 80% increase in their computer skills.
Technology Education and Access for Michigan (TEAM)
$105,300 to support 9 AmeriCorps members
Ann Arbor, MI
Nine AmeriCorps members serve in eight regions of the state under the supervision of one of the
Commissioners of the state's Commission on Technology to map assests related to the digital
divide in each region. The members form a leadership team in each region and develop a
strategic plan and implement one of the goals of the strategic plan.
Office of the Attorney General of Mississippi
$583,163 to support 50 AmeriCorps members
Jackson, MS
AmeriCorps members provide after-school tutoring and computer instruction to 5,000 students
on weekday afternoons and some weekends, resulting in increases in educational achievement as
measured by grades. Members also contact up to 2,000 families in the local communities during
school hours and weekends to encourage them to become more computer literate. In the
community, members provide computer training and learning experiences for 150 staff members
and volunteers with the host non-profit agencies. Members will also develop an on-line
mentoring program. Partner sites include 25 community-based organizations including eight Big
Brothers Big Sisters regional locations and Boys and Girls Clubs in the state.
Mississippi Department of Education
$467,938 to support 30 full-time and 20 part-time AmeriCorps members
Jackson, MS
AmeriCorps members bridge the digital divide in schools across Mississippi with ten members
providing technical support to 50 Power Up school sites, resulting in 80% of the faculty and staff
demonstrating greater computer proficiency. Forty members provide support services to teachers
at the TeachNet sites and these members also tutor at-risk K-12th grade students at 50 Power Up
sites, resulting in an 85% proficiency of the targeted 10,000 students.
The University of Montana
$244,383 to support 20 full-time and 6 part-time AmeriCorps members
Missoula, MT
26 AmeriCorps members coordinate and implement school-based technology programs for 300
youth and parents designed to increase regular access to computer technology by 20% in 5 rural
communities.
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
$140,353 to support 12 AmeriCorps members
Raleigh, NC
AmeriCorps members teach 300 blind and visually impaired students of all ages keyboarding
and computer skills, adaptive software skills, and email and Internet skills at newly developed
technology centers for the visually impaired at Asheville-Buncombe Community College,
Carteret Community College, and College of Albemarle, with 85 percent of students
demonstrating keyboard skills of 20 wpm, proficient skill in use of adaptive software and access
devices, and proficient use of email and Internet skills. as demonstrated by student demonstration
and teacher observation. Members assist in development and implementation of volunteer
programs resulting in a 500% increase in the volunteer team and 400 volunteer hours recorded.
The program serves visually disabled individuals within 19 low-income counties in the Eastern
and Western regions of North Carolina.
Monmouth Center for Vocation Rehabilition (MCVR)
$265,492 to support 20 AmeriCorps members
Toms River, NJ
AmeriCorps members serve in Monmouth and Ocean counties to provide training in computer
and technology use for individuals with disabilities and Welfare/TANF participants who are
interested in expanding their vocational and computer skills. Recruitment efforts for this
program will be on expanding the presence of members with disabilities in AmeriCorps. Results
include an 85% increase in knowledge of computers and various software programs.
Union County College
$234,000 to support 20 AmeriCorps members
Cranford, NJ
AmeriCorps members will serve 116 students in Elizabeth and Plainfield in the College's Career
Center. At the institute, members will teach computer skills to underemployed and unemployed
minorities, non-English speakers and single parents. AmeriCorps members will complement the
technology training with ESL and GED classes. Results will be measured twice a year by
following-up on student's records and employment results.
NJ Community Development Corporation
$175,478 to support 15 AmeriCorps members
Paterson, NJ
AmeriCorps members install computers in classrooms, train school teachers in computer
technology, establish other computer labs and generate volunteers to teach computer skills to
other community groups in the city of Paterson.
International Youth Organization
$166,667 to support 3 full-time and 26 part-time AmeriCorps members
Newark, NJ
AmeriCorps members tutor computer literacy in three sites, mentor students in after school
programs and serve welfare-to work students in an effort to increase the success of those
programs. Results will be measured according to tools developed by Rutgers University
Technology &Training Center.
West Side Ecumenical Ministry
$16,927 to support 1 full-time and 9 part-time AmeriCorps members
Cleveland, OH
AmeriCorps members will help at risk school age teens and low income families who reside in
Cleveland's West Side to acquire computer technology and Internet access skills. Members will
be added to three existing programs within West Side Ecumenical Ministry and will serve at
three additional area grass-roots organizations. Members expose children to state of the art
computers and software, introduce teens to computers and provide them withhomework and
Internet activities, and through the use of computers, help welfare to work clients and displaced
workers seek and secure permanent employment. Potential impacts of the program include an
expansion of services to three neighboring non-profit organizations. Impact will be measured by
pre and post testes that measure participant's improvement in technology skills.
Volunteer Action Center
$175,500 to support 8 full-time and 20 part-time AmeriCorps members
Lorain, OH
Twenty-eight AmeriCorps members expand and improve access to the Internet and technology
for low-income students and adults in Loraine County, Ohio. Members serve in three existing
technology centers located in designated 21st Century middle schools; and develop four new
centers through collaboration with Power Up and Yahoo; and provide technical assistance to
non-profits serving in low-income areas to increase their capacity to use technology.
Salt Lake County
$151,828 to support 10 AmeriCorps members
Salt Lake City, UT
10 AmeriCorps members coordinate 4 community technology resource centers in Salt Lake
County to provide access to technology for adults and young people from low-income
communities who have limited or no access to computers.
Washington State Employment Security Department
$559,627 to support 34 AmeriCorps members
Lacey, WA
34 AmeriCorps members establish technology hubs in 9 community access centers in 6 counties
to provide technology and training to at least 500 community members with social, economic, or
academic challenges so that they become familiar with basic productivity software and the
internet.
ARCH Training Center, Inc.'s Eliminating the Divide in the National Capital Region
$421,177 to support 36 full-time AmeriCorps members
Washington, DC (2 sites) and Silver Spring. MD
AmeriCorps members serving with the ARCH Training Center provide technology training and
support to children, young adults and senior citizens. Corps members equip individuals with the
skills they need to succeed academically, to gain employment at livable wages and volunteer in
computer centers.
CityCares' AmeriCorps Partners in Technology
$198,284 to support 16 full-time AmeriCorps members
Atlanta, GA; Philadelphia, PA; New York. NY; Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Newark, NY;
Baltimore, MD
CityCares' AmeriCorps members serve as project managers for the Partners in Technology
Program. Members develop organizational technology plans for project partners by conducting
assessments; recruit and manage volunteers to assist project partners in improving their
technology capacity; and recruit and manage volunteers to provide computer literacy and/or job
training technology tutoring to children, adults and project partner staff.
Institute for Community Service and Development's Technology Education Corps
$234,000 to support 20 full-time AmeriCorps members
Houston, TX; Oakland, CA; Seattle, WA; Macomb, IL; Alexandria, VA
Technology Education Corps members serve in community learning centers, schools and
libraries as information and technology teachers. Members provide training on practical
applications of software. Members also provide training in using e-mail and the Internet.
Lower Mississippi Delta Service Corps, Inc.'s Delta Service Corps
$190,500 to support 15 full-time AmeriCorps members
Cleveland, MS; West Memphis, AR; Baton Rouge, LA
AmeriCorps members provide computer skills training to students, parents and teachers.
Members also refurbish and repair computer hardware, construct and maintain school web pages
and provide assistance to teachers integrating computer use into curriculum design.
Magic Johnson Foundation's Technology Center
$234,000 to support 8 full-time and 24 part-time AmeriCorps members
Harlem, NY; Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC; Los Angeles, CA
AmeriCorps members serve in Magic Johnson Technology Centers instructing community
members and youth in technology skills to enhance educational and employment opportunities.
Members also recruit and train volunteers.
National Council of La Raza's Project Digital Divide
$234,00 to support 20 full-time AmeriCorps members
Chicago, IL; San Jose, CA; El Paso, TX
AmeriCorps members serve in Hispanic community-based organizations providing youth,
community members, and families technological skills designed to address local digital divide
needs. Activities include in-school tutoring and support, intergenerational computer instruction,
and job-skills training. Members also recruit volunteers to help sustain the efforts of these
programs.
NetDay's AmeriCorps Bridge
$877,124 to support 68 full-time AmeriCorps members
Detroit, MI; New York, NY; Oakland, CA
Members train teachers in basic technology and educational software programs; serve as a
resource to teachers in incorporating technology into the classroom; assist children with
technology projects in the classroom; and train community members in Internet usage.
Seedco's Digital Divide Project
$409,500 to support 15 full-time and 40 part-time AmeriCorps members
New Haven, CT; New York, NY (2 sites); Washington, DC; Philadelphia. PA;
Patterson, NJ; Memphis, TN
Members serve in community-based organizations and schools providing instruction to youth
and community members in basic computer and technology skills. Members also recruit
volunteers to provide additional instruction and services in the technology centers, and schools.
Operating sites are partnerships between local institutions of higher education and local
community-based organizations.
Tequity's Corps
$278,957 to support 52 part-time AmeriCorps members
Oakland, CA and Washington, DC
Members train teachers to use technology and software and to implement technology into the
curriculum; provide technical support in the classroom; and provide education- and workforce
skills-related technology instruction in community centers.
Volunteers of America's AmeriCorps *TECHBRIDGE
$233,997 to support 20 full-time AmeriCorps members
Minneapolis, MN and Sioux Falls, SD
AmeriCorps members provide technology access and training to youth, community members,
jail inmates, and senior citizens instructing them in basic computer skills, helping them feel more
comfortable using the Internet, and assisting them in acquiring marketable skills. Members also
train youth to serve as mentor-teachers for older citizens.
YouthBuild USA's AmeriCorps Technology Service Demonstration Project
$599,648 to support 5 full-time and 93 part-time AmeriCorps members
Dayton, OH; Austin, TX; Portland, OR; Washington, DC
AmeriCorps Members provide technology training to children and low income adults. Activities
also include computer refurbishing, Internet wiring and website design and support for
community organization.
2000 AmeriCorps Digital Divide Program Overview
Nine Star Enterprises, Inc.
$115,608 to support 10 AmeriCorps members
Anchorage, AK
10 AmeriCorps members serve in 8 technology centers located in schools and community-based
organizations to provide computer software skills development through tutoring or small group
instruction to 2,400 low-income children, youth, and adults living in economically disadvantaged
neighborhoods in Anchorage.
City of Selma
$234,000 to support 20 AmeriCorps members
Selma, AL
AmeriCorps members provide computer technology training to public school teachers, staff and
volunteers SO that they can incorporate the use of computers so that they improve their academic
performance or develop greater interest in the Information Technology field. Member service
activities will also help establish computer resource centers in five public housing communities.
Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative (SEARK)
$374,400 to support 32 AmeriCorps members
Monticello, AR
AmeriCorps members assist teacher in developing technology skills. Members provide support
services and demonstrate hands-on application of skills to meet classroom instructional needs. It
is anticipated that teachers will use their improved technology skills to improve instruction and
classroom management. Additionally, members provide students with technology assistance
weekly.
Access to Software for All People (ASAP)
$440,167 to support 30 full-time and 5 part-time AmeriCorps members
Berkeley, CA
35 AmeriCorps members develop, design, and implement technology enhanced curriculum for
450 3rd-5th grade students from 2 Berkeley schools resulting in 80% of students increasing their
technology competency.
Volunteer Florida Community Literacy
$314,608 to support 27 AmeriCorps members
Tallahassee, FL
AmeriCorps members are reducing the digital divide in six rural counties by increasing
community access to current computer technology. Members refurbish 500 pre-owned
computers for at least 20 computer labs in low-performing schools, non-profit organizations, and
programs that serve persons with disabilities. Members also lead 120 workshops targeted at
helping teachers, community members, and persons with disabilities to use computers, software
applications, and the internet. Of the 1,200 youth taught by AmeriCorps members in the
computer labs at school, at least 80% will indicate improved computer skills.
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2000 Learn and Serve America Digital Divide Programs
Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium's Building Digital Traditions
$260,000
Mt. Sanford Tribal Consortium will create a community of self-supported rural Alaskans who
can effectively use new information technology and communication tools in a global society.
The project will provide a technology skills training program for 45 students and four teachers in
basic computer operations, desktop publishing, multimedia design, and using the Internet.
Students will then implement service-learning projects including: connecting village community
and village centers to high-speed networks and the internet; conducting special technology
training workshops; and planning and holding "NetDay" events. Finally, the project will
establish community Technology Learning Centers.
Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe's Technology Leadership Program
$250,000
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, building on their existing Learn and Serve America Tribal
funding, plan to develop leadership skills in Native American students by collaborating with
other technology-related programs. They will work with their local 21st Century Community
Learning Center and Community Technology Center to: provide technology tutoring for
elementary and middle school students, develop service-learning activities that utilize
technology, and develop and implement technology solutions to meet the needs of the total
Reservation community. The Band will work in area schools, community centers, the
government center, assisted living centers. and Indian Museum and will engage 50 students and
25 community members, annually.
Karuk Community Development Corporation's Bridging the Digital Divide
$387,000
Karuk Community Development Corporation will promote the use of digital technologies. The
project will form service-learning cadres composed of 225 youth to provide technology training
events for tribal and non-tribal communities and organizations. The project will also work with
the school systems to integrate technology into the classroom. Educational software will be
added in the areas of GED preparation, business learning, remedial elementary and high school
applications, and parent-child exploratory software.
Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Digital Divide to Digital Opportunity
$500,000
Working with the Wisconsin Rural Challenge. this applicant seeks to: improve access to
technology and improve skills in rural communities; develop entrepreneurship and leadership
skills in young people; and promote community, economic sustainability and collective strength
of rural areas. They plan to divide the state into 3 geographic regions and to recruit 7th - 10th
grade students to become Technology Consultants who will assess communities' needs (social
and technological) and design and implement strategies to meet those needs. Results anticipated
will include not only improved access to, but more effective use of technology in participating
rural areas, leading to increased long- term vitality of those communities.
Pennsylvania Department of Education's Pennsylvania Youth Address the Digital Divide
$500,000
The Pennsylvania Digital Divide Initiative (PDDI) will provide access to computers and other
technologies for schools and community organizations, provide training in the use of these
technology resources, and put these technology resources and skills to work in developing
communities. Pennsylvania's Youth Driven Service-Learning Center (YDSLCs) will implement
the initiative by obtaining, refurbishing, and distributing recycled computers to schools and
community organizations using Philadelphia's Urban Corps model. The Commonwealth will
publish downloadable manuals to guide others who wish to replicate YDSLC or Urban Tech
Corps projects in their schools and communities. YDSLC students will map technology assets,
assess technology needs in their local communities then link individuals and organizations to
support locally defined development efforts. PDDI will train AmeriCorps and VISTA volunteers
to serve while YDSLCs serve as networking hubs for trained volunteers by connecting them to
technology needs in their communities.
University of South Florida's The Interlink Project
$500,000
USF will make four subgrants to predominantly Hispanic and African American communities in
Florida and Tennessee to provide more equitable access to technology during and beyond the
school day. The Interlink Project will place high school students and senior adult volunteers in
school settings to coach and mentor K-5 students around digital literacy. University students and
faculty will assist with curriculum design and the integration of literacy and technology. This
intergenerational project is expected to generate 120 K-12 participants in addition to 200 other
volunteers in its first year.
Learning Systems Group's School-Based Digital Divide
$178,000
Learning Systems Group (LSG) intends to work with the National Service-Learning Leader
Schools to bridge the digital divide. LSG intends to provide four subgrants to Leader Schools in
at least two states to develop or enhance exemplary service-learning projects, such as students
teaching students or seniors to use computers; repairing or reconditioning computers for schools
or nonprofits; training teachers in educational technology. The project intends a broad
dissemination strategy, culminating in a conference in the project's final year to showcase best
practices.
Campus Compact for New Hampshire's Connect NH: Bridging the Digital Divide through
Service-Learning
$350,000
The New Hampshire Campus Compact is proposing a K-12/higher education partnership
designed to bring computer skills to rural schools. In year one. they plan to 1) award K-
12/campus technology access subgrants; 2) award K-12 teacher education training in technology
subgrants; 3) recruit, select, and train a technology council for youth that encourages young
people to participate in developing solutions to bridge the digital divide; 4) plan, implement, and
evaluate training modules to create technology based activities (surfer guide training, e-mail
buddies), mentoring and tutoring program, youth voice enhancement, and community asset
mapping.
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[ Getting Started: A Guide for Americorps Members]
September 1999
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Volume 2, No. 3, Summer 2000
AmeriCorps NEWS
FOR MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE AMER CORPS NATIO NAL SERVICE NETWORK
Say Good Morning To
port their efforts to restore national
parks and support organic farming,"
'Sunrise' And AmeriCorps
Johnson said.
The three AmeriCorps members
F
or years we've been used to
to learn about AmeriCorps members
will be submitting journal entries and
seeing sports heroes on the
and help support the work they do."
photographs to the web site every
covers of cereal boxes. Starting this
Because Sunrise is a certified
month. The web address is
summer, a new kind of hero will be
organic cereal, General Mills decided
www.sunrisecereal.com. General
appearing on boxes of Sunrise
to feature members who are involved
Mills also plans to donate up to
Organic Cereal, a General Mills
in projects focused on organic farm-
$100,000 to support AmeriCorps
product. Get ready to share break-
ing and the environment.
projects. For every person who vis-
fast with AmeriCorps members.
The company hopes the real-life
its the web site and enters a code
Three AmeriCorps members—
stories of AmeriCorps members will
found on the cereal box, Sunrise
Juliet Schraeder, John Kearney and
draw a strong response from readers
Cereal will donate $1.
Molly O'Neill-will appear on boxes
and eaters. "We expect thousands
Johnson said that General Mills
of Sunrise. An estimated 5 million
would like to continue the project in
cereal boxes will carry stories and
SUNRISE
coming years. "The alliance
pictures of these members.
between AmeriCorps and Sunrise is
Why did General Mills
According to Tom
MERICORPS SERVICE
Proudly Supports
one of the most unique
choose AmeriCorps?
and exciting projects
AMERICORPS
ever to hit General
Johnson, General
Mills. People I work
Mills spokesperson,
with across the com-
"AmeriCorps mem-
pany-graphic
bers are doing amaz-
artists, marketers
ing things that are
and packaging engi-
extremely interesting
neers-are very
and beneficial to the
energized and tell me
earth and to their
Juliet Schraeder
John Kearney
Molly O'Neill
frequently that this is
communities. We wanted
one of the coolest things
to introduce AmeriCorps to a wide
of people to respond by contacting
we've ever done," he said.
audience of people. We are giving
the web site to follow the adventures
Sunrise cereal lovers the opportunity
of Juliet, John and Molly and sup-
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Letter from the President,page New PSA page2 Letter from CEO page3 VISTA Turns 35 page 3
National Youth Service Day page 4 Serving This Year and Beyond page 6 Bridging the Digital Divide page 7
Cheers for Yahool page 8 Calling Al Writers page 8
09/13/00
DRAFT
The Corporation for National Service
AmeriCorps Member and Alumni Affairs
Goal: Help AmeriCorps members to develop skills and increase knowledge
Goal: Foster a sense of AmeriCorps member identity
Goal: Educate AmeriCorps members about the opportunities and restrictions of the AmeriCorps
program and the education award
Goal: Increase the benefits of AmeriCorps membership
Goal: Prepare members for a lifelong commitment to service
Goal: Provide opportunities for AmeriCorps alumni to fulfill their pledge to a lifetime of
service.
Currently offered services/benefits:
Member handbook
Welcome letter to newly enrolled members
Web site pages geared to members and alumni
AmeriCorps newsletter
NCCC update
Fellows newsletter
All AmeriCorps Awards
National days of service
AmeriCorps gear
Life After AmeriCorps publication
All member gatherings in some states
Anniversary celebrations
Working on:
Web-based recruiting
AmeriCorps Experience Book
Mass distribution e-mail messages to alumni
Alumni Registry
Member Directory
On-line Community - improved web offerings
AmeriCorps side panel for college rings and AmeriCorps signet ring
Future projects:
AmeriCorps e-mail
AmeriCorps identification card with pledge on back
Standard training curriculum on history of national service, AmeriCorps 101, non-profit
management, life after AmeriCorps etc.
More schools to match the education award and offer special fellowships for AmeriCorps alumni
Member and alumni satisfaction survey