Last week, the Corporation for National and Community Service announced that 8 organizations would receive the $2.2 million in awards, which will fund 230 AmeriCorps volunteers:
Two multi-state programs were awarded funding – CLEAR Corps/USA, which promotes healthy lead-free environments for children through mobile lead testing vans, advocacy and educational programs, received $443,340, and the Minnesota Conservation Corps, which works on natural resource protection and disaster response in Minnesota and Iowa, received $365,400. The Minnesota Conservation Corps will send its members to Cedar Rapids and other flooded Iowa communities to assist in clean up and rebuilding.
Six local projects also received funding: Birmingham (Ala.) READS AmeriCorps ($251,879); Project Laulima of the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii ($321,300); Partners in Learning AmeriCorps Program through the City of Dubuque, Iowa ($205,378); Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps Maryland ($275,569); Project TLC (To Love a Child) in Memphis, Tenn., sponsored by the Exchange Club Family Center of the Mid-South ($223,650); and Building a Community of Champions sponsored by the Monroe County, W.Va., Schools ($137,651).
Through 2008, AmeriCorps will have over 74,000 volunteers - which is great, but, well, not enough to do everything. The programs mentioned are great, and definitely worth looking into if they’re near you.
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