by America Learns | Jul 29, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
Sometimes what your program needs most isn’t new features or flashy dashboards. Sometimes, what you really need… is someone who listens. That’s what Megan Spencer, Program Manager for Hands On AmeriCorps in Nashville, found in the Impact Suite—and the people behind...
by America Learns | Jul 28, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
Between 2008 and 2020, Kentucky’s local health departments lost over 50% of their workforce. Core programs—WIC, maternal health, harm reduction—were stretched thin. And now, with Medicaid and public health cuts in the latest federal budget, hundreds of rural hospitals...
by America Learns | Jul 27, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
Trust Looks Like This She was crawling across the living room floor, about to give birth. No nurse. No midwife. Just a contraction, a couch, and one question: “Are you one of the AmeriCorps girls?” Jessenti Ford had just walked in the door for a standard shift at...
by America Learns | Jul 13, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
We talk about infrastructure all the time in this country.We write checks to repair it.We fight about where to build it. But we forget that the strongest infrastructure isn’t always concrete and steel. Sometimes, it’s a person.A presence.A promise: I’ll be here again...
by America Learns | Jun 23, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
Why Arizona’s AmeriCorps Crews Matter—And What We Lose Without Them Somewhere in the woods outside Flagstaff, Arizona, a four-year-old is pedaling their bike along a trail their parents love. They don’t know it, but just days earlier, a small team of young adults...
by America Learns | Jun 11, 2025 | AmeriCorps, Client Success Stories
As a part of the #SaveAmeriCorps Road Trip, I had an opportunity to learn from Juan Hurtado-Rodriguez, who directs the AmeriCorps program at Safe Passages in Oakland — one of the most community-rooted programs I’ve seen in this work. He told me about a young man who...