Branches of AmeriCorps Mississippi Volunteer Amid DOGE Cuts

Branches of AmeriCorps Mississippi volunteer amid DOGE cuts

AmeriCorps Mississippi and the Mississippi Food Network spent Tuesday morning packing food boxes for senior citizens and children.

Americorps: Mend It, Don’t End It

Congressional pushback has rightly begun against the little-noticed but significant Trump White House precipitous cut in the budget of the Corporation for National Service, which funds the Americorps program. In mid-April, the White House terminated 750 members of the national service program, which provides support for paid “volunteers” who receive a modest stipend to work at a non-profit organization deemed qualified. Some 85 percent of the ce…

Park foundation makes up for AmeriCorps cuts

The government is no longer going to fund the park’s two interpretive staff positions.

Conservation corps, defunded, will continue stewarding local trails

CONCORD — Lakes Region trails will still be maintained this year, despite an abrupt funding cut last month to the Lakes Region Conservation Corps, an AmeriCorps program based at Squam Lakes Association, effectively terminating it.

After DOGE gutted AmeriCorps, rural communities stand to lose education and preservation help

AmeriCorps members were working on environmental education and habitat restoration at parks and nature centers in rural areas across the country. Now federal cuts have eliminated many of those positions. The post After DOGE gutted AmeriCorps, rural communities stand to lose education and preservation help appeared first on WPR.

How AmeriCorps cuts are hitting Colorado

700 sites in Colorado will lose access to AmeriCorps labor they’ve relied on for years.