#madeinamericorps

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AIST member Payton Thomas serving in Bright Beginnings Pre-K in Ms.Brady’s Class Happy AmeriCorps Week!

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#MadeInAmeriCorps

So it were not for my time with Americorps at Fort Vancouver National Historic site I would have never got my job working for Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic site. Then I never would have ended up where I am now which is working as a preserve administrator for The Nature Conservancy on a the largest bison and prairie preseve preserve in the United States.

What I learned is an americorp intern was a lot about federal policy and how the department of interior worked. This also came up later as I worked for their Trio grant programs and as I applied for Trio Grant back in 2015. I was granted 1.5 million dollars for my program and my hard work on that proposal.

I would have never learned about the remediation of historical structures using green paints and paints that encapsulate lead or about strategic planning for disturbed archeological sites.

Americorps taught me that I had a lot to learn straight out of college. I had to make hard choices and I had to deal with the consequences. Even though the job itself was fun and the research was interesting I always felt very lonely and different than the other seasonal rangers.

I could've coped better if I didn't have pets or if I moved completely from Oly into my own place. Americorps didn't pat well enough to do that.

However, I guess my two best memories from this experience was one they had a mountain man rendezvous at the fort.

The second best memory was when I took our conservation corps young men 17-16 year olds out to Mount Saint Helens and to the ape caves we took the advanced portion because they wanted to and they hand helped me through the most difficult parts of the cave climb.

And the true final result is my boss and I wrote a section of the Department of Interior policy on lead paint encapsulation just as they took ownership of the federal barracks abd the whole site.

The clarity that I developed learning about federal policy, the GSA procurement and how to write grants changed my career.

And while this might sound very boring too people, working in administration and working as a naturalist has taken me all around the country and all around the world. I might not have this monetary success that Americans contribute to stability and sustainability, but I do have books of stories, photos and experiences combined with the comfort of knowing I've changed thousands and thousands of young people's life for the programming that I provided.

I am a true adventurer and Americorps made my work in conservation possible.

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2018-2019 AmeriCorps Instructional Support Team members celebrating #AmeriCorpsWeek 

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2018-2019 AmeriCorps Instructional Support Team Butler County Board of Education members celebrating AmeriCorps Week.

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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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"I Serve Because...I love my community and I want to make it better for all of us" by Karen Cameron of Addison, TX (North Texas Chapter of AmeriCorps Alums - Greater Dallas Community of Churches - Big Brothers, Big Sisters - AmeriCorps VISTA)

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"I Serve Because...I want to inspire future generations" by Carolyn Benard of Washington, DC (AmeriCorps Alums - Community Youth Services - AmeriCorps)

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"I Serve Because..." story from Shannon Harris of Lamoni, IA.  Filmed by Sarah Hinzman of Des Moines, IA  (AmeriCorps Alums - Lamoni Schools - Graceland University AmeriCorps Youth Launch )

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