Project for Pride in Living

Questions about AmeriCorps?

Contact: Laura Bohen

What is AmeriCorps?

AmeriCorps, the domestic Peace Corps, engages more than 50,000 Americans in intensive, results-driven service each year. We’re teaching children to read, training volunteers, making neighborhoods safer, cleaning up rivers and streams, coordinating after-school programs, building affordable homes, helping seniors live independently and responding to natural disasters through more than 1000 projects. Most AmeriCorps members are selected by and serve with community organizations like PPL.

Get training, experience, skills

You’ll learn teamwork, communication, responsibility, and other essential skills that will help you for the rest of your life. And you’ll gain the personal satisfaction of taking on a challenge and seeing results. Put your idealism to work through AmeriCorps.

The Mission of AmeriCorps

Getting Things Done
Achieving demonstrable results in meeting Americans’ educational, public safety, environmental, and health and human needs.

Strengthening Communities
Uniting citizens from different backgrounds and bringing together diverse institutions in partnerships to transform communities in need.

Encouraging Responsibility
Strengthening the spirit of citizenship through service, education about service, and understanding of communities.

Expanding Opportunity
Offering education awards in return for service, and providing invaluable life and job skills to members, which they will carry through the rest of their lives.

read about how the stimulus money supports new AmeriCorps positions at PPL