San Diego AmeriCorps Alums & Members

Life After AmeriCorps : Our hope is to create a strong AmeriCorps community here in San Diego County where we can continue to serve, learn, and grow! We are the San Diego Chapter of AmeriCorps Alums!

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This week we celebrate the 75K current AmeriCorps members and more than 1 million AmeriCorps alumni who have served more than 1.4 billion hours to get things done and make things better for America since 1994.

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Looking for your next adventure that will help you transform your life? Do a #serviceyear and you can get paid, gain skills, and make an impact! Visit serviceyear.org to learn more! 

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Service by the Numbers: Measuring CNCS Program Impact

Building confidence. Improving lives. Strengthening communities. These are all intangible benefits often attributed to volunteering. At the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), we engage millions of Americans in national service through AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and the Volunteer Generation Fund. Our Office of Research & Evaluation (ORE) channels our passion for volunteering with a commitment to gathering evidence. By combining those two fields, we have developed the State of the Evidence Report which shares meaningful insights that not only reinforce those intangible benefits of volunteering, but reveal concrete benefits as well.

Everyone has their reason for serving in a CNCS program, and while it is often an expression of compassion and support for others, volunteers also benefit from service. Volunteers in general are 27 percent more likely to find a job after being out of work, and that number jumps to 51 percent for volunteers without a high school diploma. Looking specifically at AmeriCorps, a Tufts University resume-based experiment study found that 24 percent of resumes listing AmeriCorps service experience received a call back for an interview, compared to 17 percent of resumes without a service record; a statistically significant difference.  

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Wayback Wednesday Photos 

Life After AmeriCorps - just the beginning workshop!

Still getting things done.

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#Service and #leadership through #AmeriCorps & #PeaceCorps helps launch #careers. These #500Employers across the private, public, & nonprofit sectors agree: http://bit.ly/500Employers

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AmeriCorps VISTA, since 1965, working to lift people out of poverty. Celebrate #VISTA50 in Utah & across the US! http://thndr.it/1DMxuDI

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#Katrina10 Stories of Service: Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps Alum Chris Monforton

AmeriCorps alum Chris Monforton served on one of the first assessment teams for Habitat for Humanity around the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina. Watch to hear his memories of service and the gratitude he expresses for the volunteers on the 10th anniversary of the storm.

Learn more on the National Service Katrina10 portal

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#AmeriCorpsAlums #AmeriCorps #Katrina10 #NationalService 

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Volunteer … It Might Help You Land Your Next Job

By Greg Tucker

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Life After AmeriCorps” Survey: Can you give just 10 minutes today?

AMERICORPS ALUMS launched an online “Life After AmeriCorps” Alumni survey to help understand how to best support the nearly 1 million AmeriCorps alumni nationwide – and we want to hear from you! Can you take 10 minutes to help us today?  

Go here https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/AmeriCorpsAlums to  complete the survey! This survey will help us collect critical information about what supports you, your fellow alums, and current AmeriCorps members need to launch and support impact careers. We’ll also share the results with our champions – including funders and government officials – to make the case that an investment in YOU is an investment we should make. Complete the survey by this Friday and you’ll be eligible to win prizes, including a free one-hour career coaching session or tickets to the invite-only Franklin Project /Aspen Institute National Service Summit in June 2014! Thank you for your time and service!

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We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline. #CesarChavez

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By Dana Goodrow, Community Manager

What do you think of when you hear the term service learning? If your perceptions revolve around the words “requirement,” “short-term” or “menial,” you’re probably not alone. Next Generation of Service (NGS) Movement is a San Diego organization that is working...

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#LifeAfterService Our #SanDiego AmeriWellness was event was absolutely #amazing! Yogini Lena is #fantastic. We're #grateful for her #hike #leadership, gentle #yoga guidance and #positive energy. Thank you to all #sandiegoacalums, #americorps, #americorpsalums, #americorpsvista, #nccc #acalums, and friends for sharing your time, stories, and #goodvibes with us! :-) #sundayfunday #namaste

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Celebrate AmeriCorps20! Sept. 20, 2013 kicked off a year-long celebration of AmeriCorps and its 20 years of service to America. I know I was surprised to hear that AmeriCorps had been around so long. For those of us committed to serving others, I think we can all agree that AmeriCorps put service on the map. Since its...

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AmeriCorps places thousands of teachers, tutors, and mentors into low performing schools, helping students succeed in school and gain skills necessary to get 21st century jobs.

AmeriCorps Members make a difference!

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The San Diego Center for Civic Engagement, a branch of The San Diego Foundation is looking for our ideas to improve our neighborhoods! Their Great Neighborhood Challenge will sponsor 10-20 community awards between $1,000 and $5,000 each to encourage the creation and implementation of projects...

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