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AmeriCorps in DC
In the Washington, DC area, over 1,800 AmeriCorps serve every year at over 50 different nonprofit and community-based organizations. Currently, eight of these organizations are funded through Serve DC AmeriCorps*State funding while the others are either AmeriCorps*VISTA project sponsors or recipients of AmeriCorps*National funding. The closest AmeriCorps*NCCC campus operates out of Perry Point, Maryland.
Serve DC’s eight AmeriCorps*State grantees include:
- Center for Inspired Teaching – Center for Inspired Teaching exists to ensure schools make the most of children’s innate desire to learn. Center for Inspired Teaching has 30 AmeriCorps Members serving as part of a Professional Corps – the AmeriCorps Members will work as District of Columbia Public School Teachers and will work towards earning their Teacher Certification.
- City Year – City Year unites a diverse group of 17 to 24 year-olds for a year of full-time, team-based national service and leadership development. In Washington, DC, 96 corps members provide critically needed services to some of DC’s most underserved children and youth all over the city, focusing on literacy tutoring, HIV/AIDS prevention education and youth leadership development. Corps members also improve communities by leading children and adults in transformative service projects at schools, parks and community centers throughout the District.
- Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso (FAN) – Fihankra Akoma Ntoaso’s goal is to bring a Positive Youth Development perspective to Washington DC youth in foster care that provides young people with formal and informal opportunities to nurture their interests and talents, acquire new skills, and gain a sense of personal and group recognition in an atmosphere of hope. FAN will utilize 17 young adults to support their three programs: Youth Ensemble Program, Positive Youth Development, and Transitions.
- Heads Up – Sixty-nine part-time AmeriCorps Members serve first- to sixth-graders in Washington, DC elementary schools and neighborhoods through a summer academic enhancement program and an after-school tutoring and homework assistance program. The members serve in schools in Wards 4, 6 and 8.
- Jumpstart – Jumpstart will provide 189 minimum-time AmeriCorps Members from the University of the District of Columbia, Howard University, Georgetown University, and George Washington University to local preschools and Head Start locations. Members serve children ages three to five from low income communities in one-to-one tutoring and mentoring relationships based on language and literacy development. Corps members serve throughout the District in Wards 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8.
- Latin American Youth Center – The LAYC AmeriCorps Program places 20 full-time and 8 part-time AmeriCorps Members within local Elementary Schools to serve as educational aides to encourage academic achievement among students performing below grade level. Through the placement of In-School and After-School programs, as well as summer programs, the members become tutors, mentors and role models to youth. Members also conduct workshops and teach classes focusing on building self-esteem and wise decision-making in efforts to encourage abstinence among youth. Service is also an integral component of the program throughout the year; members give back to the community through neighborhood beautification projects and trips to the food bank. For the 2009-2010 Program Year, LAYC will utilize both AmeriCorps*State Competitive funding and funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
- Playworks – Playworks is a national nonprofit organization that supports learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to schools at recess and throughout the entire school day. Playworks programming has a strong focus on recess, and encourages respectful, inclusive, healthy play for all students. Playworks provides each partner school with a full-time coach who becomes part of the school community. Each Playworks coach works full-time to provide organized play and physical activity programming throughout the school day and after school, organizing games during recess and class game time, and providing after-school games, supervised playtime developmental sports leagues and leadership training. Thirteen full-time AmeriCorps Members serve Wards 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 8 in the 2009-10 school year.
- Youth Power Center – The mission of he Youth Power Center is to prepare youth for leadership in the community and the workplace. YPC aims to achieve this with their initiative entitled “Developing the Pipeline for a Lifetime of Options and Opportunities” (DPLOO) which focuses upon youth ages 13-18 in Wards 7 and 8 and will employ the services of 17 AmeriCorps members – 2 full-time, 15 half-time. Through all four components of this initiative, YPC “serves youth” and “builds leaders.” For the 2009-2010 Program Year, YPC will utilize both AmeriCorps*State Formula funding and funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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