AmeriCorps

Corporation for National and Community Service
Agency overview
Formed1993
Preceding agency
JurisdictionFederal government of the United States
Headquarters250 E Street, SW Washington, D.C. 20525 [1]
Employees586 (2020)[2]
Annual budget$1.055 billion USD (2013 Annualized CR level)[3]
Agency executive
Websiteamericorps.gov

AmeriCorps (/əˈmɛrɪkɔːr/ ə-MERR-ih-kor[citation needed]; officially the Corporation for National and Community Service or CNCS) is an independent agency of the United States government that engages more than five million Americans in service through a variety of stipended volunteer work programs in many sectors. These programs include AmeriCorps VISTA, AmeriCorps NCCC, AmeriCorps State and National, AmeriCorps Seniors, the Volunteer Generation Fund, and other national service initiatives.[4] The agency's mission is "to improve lives, strengthen communities, and foster civic engagement through service and volunteering".[5] It was created by the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993.[6] In September 2020, the agency rebranded itself as AmeriCorps, although its official name is unchanged.[7]

  1. ^ "Contact Us | Corporation for National and Community Service". Archived from the original on 2013-05-07.
  2. ^ "Open Government Data". U.S. Office of Personnel Management. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  3. ^ [1] cncs?government. Retrieved 1/14/2014.
  4. ^ "National Service". Nationalservice.gov. Retrieved Nov 21, 2011.
  5. ^ "ABOUT CNCS". Corporation for National and Community Service. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
  6. ^ Bill Text, 103rd Congress (1993-1994), H.R.2010.EAS Archived 2020-05-17 at the Wayback Machine Library of Congress
  7. ^ Bur, Jessie (September 29, 2020). "Public service agency rebrands itself under a familiar name". Federal Times. Retrieved September 14, 2021.