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Every AmeriCorps Experience Tells a Story

AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers represent the best of America, tirelessly serving people and communities across the country.

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AmeriCorps appears successful in fostering civic engagement among diverse volunteers, but member recruitment and retention efforts should be tailored to meet the needs of diverse groups

Clemson University

This study examines the impact of participation in a 10-week civic engagement class called Cultivando Sabiduría (Cultivating Wisdom) specifically created for low-income, Spanish-speaking Latino elders with little or no formal education

California State University, San Marcos

This study asks a simple question: what policies and procedures do nonprofit organizations have in place to maximize the experience and contributions of their volunteers?

Arizona State University

Through its 2015 National Service and Civic Engagement Research Competition grant, UT Austin used the Confirmatory Factor Analysis measurement technique to create a new multiple-indicator, county-level measure of social capital

University of Texas at Austin

Tufts conducted a field experiment exploring whether listing national service on a job candidate’s application materials had a positive or significant impact on the prospect of getting a job

Tufts University

Through the CWRU hospital, this program trained AmeriCorps members to serve as coaches and deliver a tobacco cessation intervention in primary care practices to patients who smoke

Case Western Reserve University

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