Partnerships for Student Achievement

For decades, AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers have responded to our country's most immediate and critical needs. They are the “people power” that local nonprofit, faith-based, and community organizations rely on to deliver services and make a difference in local communities. While helping others, AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers experience a decrease in isolation and loneliness, and AmeriCorps members gain in-demand job skills and complete their service with increased employability and pathways to higher education, preparing them to succeed in the workforce.

Now, the Administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are taking steps that indicate a desire to dismantle AmeriCorps. By placing a large number of agency staff on administrative leave, AmeriCorps program operations, member enrollment and deployment, and grant disbursement could slow to a halt. The Administration has also issued stop work orders to AmeriCorps NCCC and FEMA Corps members. These actions effectively terminate critical resources that communities across all 50 states have depended on for three decades.

AmeriCorps funds respond to local needs and are largely administered by states, not the federal government, to keep state and local priorities front and center. At a time when states are experiencing significant natural disasters, increasing costs stemming from increased social service needs, workforce gaps, and more, AmeriCorps delivers urgently needed resources to support communities across the country.

We need your help.

Use our sample social media below to share our easy email congress tool. You will also find our call script and instructions for calling your members of congress. Let's flood their phone lines with the positive impacts of AmeriCorps.

Be sure to also send an email to your lawmakers: https://voicesforservice.org/take-action/contact-congress/.

This is an unprecedented moment and we need everyone to take action to contact their members of congress.