AmeriCorps cuts leave people who serve and community organizations scrambling for alternatives
- In mid-April 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency placed most AmeriCorps staff on administrative leave, disrupting national service programs.
- These cuts followed DOGE's mandate to reduce government spending, terminating funding for about 80% of AmeriCorps programs and ending grants to Wisconsin's Serve Wisconsin.
- The funding loss stopped work at over 300 Wisconsin sites, eliminated 430 AmeriCorps jobs, and forced nonprofits and communities to scramble for alternatives amid growing uncertainty.
- Guenther emphasized that service reductions are inevitable due to the $14 million federal funding cuts, which threaten support for vulnerable groups.
- The cuts prompted a 25-state coalition lawsuit challenging the administration’s actions, while affected organizations and corps members seek emergency funding amid concerns over sustainability.
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Now, the Trump Administration has cut AmeriCorps that served thousands of people in our communities
The mean-spirited and “penny-wise, pound foolish” cuts by the administration to shave nickels in spending will harm the most vulnerable in our families and neighborhoods.
Comment: AmeriCorps staffers were making America healthy again
HeraldNet.com HeraldNet.com - Everett and Snohomish County news from The Daily Herald in Everett, Washington A modest stipend for students was providing experience and value. Until the Trump administration fired them. Comment: AmeriCorps staffers were making America healthy again Wire Service
“Food banks will find a way”: AmeriCorps cuts have wide-ranging impacts in Tucson and across the state - AZ Luminaria
“I will get things done for America.” So begins the AmeriCorps pledge — which continues, “to make our people safer, smarter, and healthier. I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities.”That’s all a lot harder to do now that the federal volunteer program has had its budget slashed by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.In late April, DOGE announced about $400 million would be cut from the agency. About 90% of the ag…
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