AmeriCorps
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What is AmeriCorps?
AmeriCorps is a national service program that provides individuals an opportunity to strengthen communities, mobilize volunteers and
engage in a year of service-learning. In exchange for the commitment, AmeriCorps members are eligible to receive benefits, gain
valuable experience and build new skills. (Read how Michelle helped reunite a refugee family separated by thousands of miles)
Eligibility & benefits
- AmeriCorps is open to U.S. citizens, nationals, or lawful permanent
resident aliens age 17 and older
- Receive a modest annual
living allowance
- Education award to pay for college, graduate
school, or to pay back qualified student loans
- Eligibility for health
and childcare benefits
- Personal and professional development training
- Student loan deferment
- Members serving less than full time receive
partial benefits.
Services that AmeriCorps members perform
Lutheran Family Services currently has members serving in program areas including youth enrichment programs, community
development, health outreach, life skills education, immigration and refugee services, and volunteer recruitment.
AmeriCorps members can serve in three levels of service:
- Full time (1700 hours/year)
- Half Time (900 hours/year)
- Quarter Time (450 hours/year)
How to become involved with AmeriCorps
Persons meeting the AmeriCorps eligibility requirements can complete the AmeriCorps
Member Application
or contact Lutheran
Family Services to
request additional information.
The program enrolls members to begin service September 1st and finish August
31st each year.
Who can host an AmeriCorps member?
Members are placed
at host sites whose mission and value statements are in line with
those of Lutheran Family Services and the AmeriCorps program.
Priority will go to organizations that address human need issues
of youth and family enrichment, immigration and refugee assistance,
and life skills education.
AmeriCorps members serving under the Lutheran Family Services grant are placed at Not-for-Profit or Faith-Based host site locations across the state of Nebraska.
Is there a cost to hosting an AmeriCorps member?
The AmeriCorps federal grant pays for approximately half of the
program cost. The host site organization must come up with the other
half through a combination in-kind and cash match. A host site
agency is responsible for a cash match for each member placed in the
program, as well as, in-kind contributions such as office space and
supplies. In return, a host site organization receives 450 to 1700
hours of service from a member.
Organizations interested in serving as a host site should download, complete and send in the
AmeriCorps Host Site Application.
For more information contact Mikki Chullino, AmeriCorps Program Manager, at our Community Services Center.
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