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...
by America Learns | Jun 9, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
We’re honored to welcome the North Carolina Commission on Volunteerism & Community Service to the community of state service commissions using the Impact Suite for simple, ease-filled AmeriCorps grants management. The commission will use the Impact Suite to...
by America Learns | Jun 2, 2025 | AmeriCorps, News
A fourth-grade student nearly lost her life. By the time Tara Warren’s AmeriCorps team started working with the student, she was already slipping.She wasn’t failing tests. She wasn’t acting out.She was just… off. Thanks to an AmeriCorps member embedded full-time in...