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AmeriCorps
in Wisconsin
AmeriCorps is the national
service program that provides thousands of Americans of many ages and
backgrounds with education awards in exchange for a year or two of community
service.
AmeriCorps members in Wisconsin typically
start their terms of service during the fall. Most AmeriCorps members
receive a living allowance (instead of a wage), which is distributed to the
member in equal payments, typically every two weeks. Full-time members
complete at least 1,700 service hours during a 9-12 month period and usually
receive a $11,100 living allowance, health care, childcare reimbursements (if eligible),
and a $4,725 education award that can be used to pay tuition or to pay back
qualified student loans. Half-time members complete at least 900 hours during a 5-12 month
period and usually receive a $5,550 living allowance and a $2,362.50 education
award.
AmeriCorps
Please contact the programs
listed below to find out more about
their positions, their availability, benefits, and application process. If you
have problems reaching anyone, please contact Kristi
Conway at 608.261.6604. Also
contact Kristi to learn about how to apply for funding to operate an
AmeriCorps program.
You can also visit the AmeriCorps
recruitment website to apply online to AmeriCorps programs nationwide.
Wisconsin AmeriCorps Program Descriptions
(printable
version)
Wisconsin
AmeriCorps
Program Contact List (printable
version)
To view a
map showing volunteer opportunities available with AmeriCorps programs in
Wisconsin click
here.
For AmeriCorps
programs in Wisconsin not funded by Serve Wisconsin click
here.
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ADVOCAP,
Inc.
ADVOCAP Fresh
St
art
Fond
du Lac
17
to 24-years-old
Description:
ADVOCAP Fresh Start is a program that works with at-risk youth ages
17-24 years old to help them overcome barriers in their lives. The young
men and women who participate in this program spend part of their day on
life skills education which includes GED/HSED or high school diploma
studies as well as many other aspects of independent living skills. The
balance of their day is spent on constructing or remodeling a home that is
sold to a low to moderate income family from the community when it is
completed. The program offers them positive adult mentors, opportunity to
learn new skills, a chance to turn their lives around and develop their
self-esteem and work ethic. They are also earning an income while in the
program. By the time they finish their time in Fresh Start they have a
positive job reference, an educational scholarship, and many new skills to
go forward with their lives and be self-sufficient.
Contact:
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Boys
& Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee
SPARK Literacy Program/Environmental Education Initiative
Milwaukee
& Waukesha County
Age 18+
Description:
AmeriCorps
members serving as part of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater
Milwaukee’s SPARK (Spheres of Proud Achievement in
Reading
for Kids) Early Literacy Initiative will work both during and after school
in four club/school partnership sites. Members will work with students in
Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd and 3rd grades who
have been identified by their classroom teachers as struggling readers.
AmeriCorps members will implement the SPARK Program by providing
one-on-one and/or small group reading activities and initiate fun literacy
games/activities that build students’ phonemic awareness, phonics
skills, reading fluency, vocabulary, and text comprehension.
Camp Whitcomb/Mason,
owned and operated by the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee is a
year round facility located near Hartland, WI, approximately 35 miles
northwest of Milwaukee, on beautiful Lake Keesus. Situated on 306 acres of
hills, fields, wetlands, and forests, Whitcomb/Mason provides campers with
a variety of natural experiences. Members will play a critical role at
Camp Whitcomb/Mason year round, with an increased concentration during the
summer months. Members will create, implement and lead youth through
environmental education lessons and activities in the areas of:
archaeology, agriculture, athletics, cultural studies, nature, arts &
crafts, outdoor living skills, Wisconsin forest history, and organic
farming.
Contact:
Patricia Marcus, (414)
383-2650
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Dane
County Human Services
Partners for AfterSchool Success
Dane
County
Description:
Partners for AfterSchool Success (PASS) AmeriCorps members will work
in afterschool settings throughout Dane County. Members will be working
with middle and high school youth. Members will focus mostly on tutoring
to increase success in schools, community service learning projects and
providing safe places for middle school students during non-school hours.
All members will be assigned to a program that will provide skilled
supervisors. Members will have multiple opportunities to meet and network
with youth-serving programs throughout the county. Relevant training
opportunities will be provided throughout the member's placement. By the
time they finish their year of service, members will have a positive job
reference, an educational scholarship, and many new professional skills.
Contact:
Emily Engel,
608.242.6413
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Easter Seals
Wisconsin
Easter Seals Wisconsin AmeriCorps Partnership
Statewide
Description: Easter
Seals Wisconsin is a non-profit organization providing programs for children,
youth and adults with physical and developmental disabilities. AmeriCorps
members will serve at Easter Seals' two rural therapeutic recreation programs:
Camp Wawbeek, a summer camp for children and adults with physical disabilities
and the Respite Center, a year-round therapeutic recreation program in a camp
setting for children and adults with developmental disabilities. Easter Seals
AmeriCorps Partnership members will provide ideas for, plan and lead programs
and assist campers to participate fully in activities, including canoeing,
crafts, sports, swimming, an adventure ropes course, skits, campouts, and
archery. One member will focus on attracting youth to new specialty programs to
increase the participation of young people in science, technology, engineering,
and math. Another member will concentrate on volunteer recruitment and
developing disaster preparedness plans for the camps.
Contact: Kelly
Housman, 608.277.8288 x111
www.eastersealswisconsin.com
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Jumpstart for
Young Children
Jumpstart Wisconsin
Eau Claire
and Madison
Description: Jumpstart
partners with the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire and Madison to deliver an
innovative, research-based early childhood education program to children from
low-income families. Jumpstart's intensive enrichment program, a successful
model operating in 66 urban and rural communities across the country, trains an
AmeriCorps member/Federal Work-Study college student to work one-to-one with a
3- to 5-year-old child who needs additional attention to build their language
and literacy, social and initiative skills. During the 8-month school year,
Corps members hold two-hour Jumpstart sessions twice per week. These sessions
are structured classroom sessions set aside for a team of 6-10 Corps members to
devote individualized attention to children following the traditional school
day. Corps members spend an additional 3-5 hours per week in their child's
classroom supporting the classroom teacher and other students. During Jumpstart
Summer, Corps members team-teach full-time in classrooms to provide
literacy-rich learning opportunities for children. Corps members commit 300
hours (school year) or 450 hours (school year/summer) to Jumpstart.
Contact: Donna
Lehmkuhl, 715.836.6011
http://www.jstart.org
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Marshfield
Clinic Research Foundation
Project Forward AmeriCorps
Statewide
Description: Project
Forward AmeriCorps, a program of the Center for Community Outreach, is a
community-based statewide youth development initiative operating in 26 sites.
The Center for Community Outreach provides technical assistance, consultation,
education, training and resources to strengthen local efforts to address
behavioral health issues particularly alcohol, tobacco, and other drug abuse and
related problems. AmeriCorps members are placed with community partnerships and
ethnic communities across the state and are viewed as valuable and necessary
resources to work with youth. Members provide program support, planning, after
school activities, mentoring, learning events and more. The community
partnerships and ethnic communities provide supervision,
office space, service plans and support to each member.
Contact: Brian
Blahnik, 715.221.8400
www.marshfieldclinic.org/cco/about_americorps.asp
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Milwaukee
Christian Center, Inc
Milwaukee Christian Center - Youthbuild
Milwaukee
Age
Range: 18-24 years old
Description:
Milwaukee Christian Center - Youthbuild (MCCYB) is a Wisconsin Fresh
Start Initiative. MCCYB AmeriCorps members build new in fill housing,
constructing Energy Star certified homes for sale to families earning no
more than 80% of County Median Income. During the warm weather months
Corps members will assist in trail maintenance projects along the new Hank
Aaron State Trail in the Menomonee River Valley. The Corps members will
also be engaged in GED/HSED completion, basic skills instruction,
citizenship and emergency response training.
Contact:
Michael Van Alstine, (414)
643-7704
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Milwaukee
Teacher Education Center
Learning By Serving Our Community
(Education Award Program-EAP)
Milwaukee
Special
Requirement: Bachelor's Degree
Description:
MTEC AmeriCorps members implement service learning projects with students that
are meaningful and relevant to their education experience. By implementing
service, the goal is to strengthen teachers as educators and as citizens and to
create an awareness among students of their role as citizens and community
members. The end goal is to bridge schools and communities in an effort to find
solutions for "everyday" issues.
Contact: Felicia
Fairfield, 414.227.2556
www.mteconline.org
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North Central
Community Action Program
AmeriCorps Team-Greater Wausau Area
Wausau
Description: The
AmeriCorps Team Greater Wausau Area places AmeriCorps members at 10 Greater
Wausau area organizations and several local schools. Members provide services as mentors to
youth at several sites and as tutors to students in elementary, middle, and secondary schools.
One member provides health and safety education to the public through the Red
Cross, one member assists at a food pantry, and
another serves as a mentor as part of an intensive in-home team for families in
crisis. A member will serve at the Volunteer Center in recruiting and working
with youth volunteers, and one will serve as tutor/health navigator program
assistant at the Wausau Area Hmong Mutual Association. Participation for all members includes member meetings and training
sessions. Members are also engaged in planning or serving at a number of
community service projects throughout the year.
Contact:
Josie Paleologue-Pierce, 715.849.5212
http://americorps.weop.net/
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Operation
Fresh Start
OFS-AmeriCorps
Madison
Age Range: 16
to 24 years old
Description:
Operation Fresh Start AmeriCorps members build new, or renovate existing
housing, creating safe, energy-efficient according to ENERGY STAR standards, high-quality homes for sale to
first-time, lower income homebuyers. During the summer, some members complete
significant environmental restoration projects for the Madison Parks Dept. and
along the Wisconsin River for the Riverland Conservancy. Career development, GED/HSED
completion, and basic skills instruction are services available to members.
Contact: Connie
Ferris Bailey, 608.244.4721
http://www.operationfreshstart.org/index/index.asp
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Partners
for Community Development
Hispanic Information Center
Sheboygan
and Manitowoc
Description:
AmeriCorps
members serve three diverse needs. First, some members will teach Hispanic
individuals how to use existing community services and assist them in their
integration
into the community in a positive way. All of these members will
have be bilingual. Second, some members will be located in schools in
Sheboygan
and
Manitowoc
Counties
and will mentor Hispanic at-risk students and introduce them to academic,
social and vocational activities. They will work with teacher-referred
students in need of assistance and will model how to become involved
citizens. Finally, some members will assist the Human Services departments
in both counties with their Wraparound families.
Contact:
Victor Quino, (920)
459-9880
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Public
Allies, Inc.
Public Allies Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Age Range: 18
to 30 years old
Description:
Public Allies Milwaukee advances diverse young leaders (ages 18 to 30) to
strengthen communities, nonprofits and civic participation. The program achieves
this mission by placing young adults in full-time, paid, professional
apprenticeships at nonprofit organizations where they will work four days a week
for ten months. On Fridays, the program brings the entire corps together for
team building, leadership training and team service projects. A powerful network
of diverse, committed young leaders emerge from the program and will continue to
serve their communities for years to come.
Contact:
Rafael Acevedo, (414) 383-8274
www.publicallies.org
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United
Way of Dane County
Schools of Hope
Madison, Sun Prairie
and Verona
Description:
The AmeriCorps Schools of Hope Project is a collaboration with the Madison
Metropolitan School District, RSVP of Dane County, and the United Way of Dane
County. This effort aligns community volunteers and other resources to
improve the academic achievement of low-performing preschool through fifth grade
students from a range of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. AmeriCorps
members place and support trained tutors in early childhood programs and
elementary schools in Madison, Sun Prairie, and Verona. Tutoring support
and home-based literacy materials are directed at students of color and those
who come from low-income families.
Contact:
Karen Dischler (608) 441-7893
Kathy
Price (608) 663-4941
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UW-Oshkosh
AmeriCorps Connects
Oshkosh and
Fox cities
Description: AmeriCorps
Connects supports people and organizations by using citizen service as a
strategy to meet community needs including tutoring, mentoring, youth
development, and volunteer recruitment. The program collaborates with schools
and other non-profit organizations to create an environment in which youth,
partnered with adults, provide service to enhance their community and feel they
are valuable resources.
Contact: Jennipher
Janness, 920.424.2244
www.uwosh.edu/ccdet/community/americorps
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Wausau Area
Hmong Mutual Association
Wausau Fresh Start
Wausau
Age Range: 17
to 24 years old
Description: Wausau
Fresh Start is a unique mentoring program for young adults ages 17 through 24.
Being an AmeriCorps youth corps, Wausau Fresh Start's two crews build low income
homes. While building the homes, members also work on completing high school,
develop career goals, learn adult living skills, and develop a sense of
community.
Contact: David
Zuege, 715.842.8390
www.wausauhmong.org/services.htm#WAUSAU%20AREA%20FRESH%20START
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Wisconsin
Association for Homeless and Runaway Services
Direct Service Outreach to Runaways
Statewide
Description:
Runaway programs have seen
major increases in homeless youth. These youth, who live "on the
street", are in very high risk situations, with few resources and virtually
no support system. As a response to this phenomenon, the Wisconsin Association
for Homeless and Runaway Services, in collaboration with the Wisconsin National
and Community Service Board, provides a team of AmeriCorps members to provide
street outreach services and response to referrals from police departments,
schools, and other youth serving agencies. The AmeriCorps members are available
to youth who are homeless, runaways, or in crisis and are therefore "on the
street". Members frequent areas in the community where youth congregate,
such as parks, malls, convenience stores, etc. Youth are provided with hygiene
packets, food vouchers, transportation vouchers, clothes, educational materials,
and, most importantly, referral services to provide them with safe alternatives
to the street. The members also are available to police and school personnel, by
responding directly to referrals. Twenty-five AmeriCorps members are providing
these outreach services in 36 counties, ensuring runaway, homeless, and youth in
crisis have a strong support system and alternatives to the street.
Contacts: Patricia
Balke, 608.241.2649
John Babbit, 414.352.5103
www.wahrs.org
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Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction
Service for Learning and Life
Statewide
Description:
The Service for Learning and Life program is administered by the Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction in conjunction with host sites scattered around
the state. Some of our members will serve under the auspices of Boys and Girls
Clubs and/or Special Olympics of Wisconsin. The mission of the program is to
provide direct tutoring to students who need extra help, to recruit and
coordinate volunteer programs, and to coordinate high-quality service-learning
projects. The tutoring provided by our AmeriCorps Members, the volunteers they
recruit, and the service-learning projects they coordinate help hundreds of
Wisconsin
children reach their potential in school.
Contact:
Steve Kretzmann, 608.267.9278
www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/bbfcsp/acgrntpg.html
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Workforce
Connections, Inc.
YES AmeriCorps
La Crosse
Description:
YES AmeriCorps members
strengthen our communities by helping youth experience success, assisting in
public safety, reducing hunger, promoting literacy, expanding volunteer services
and . . . Getting Things Done! YES AmeriCorps is a multi-site national service
program that has served the La Crosse area for 12 years. Service sites are
located in La Crosse, Onalaska, Sparta, Melrose-Mindoro, Sparta, Black River
Falls, Tomah, Mauston and Viroqua, Wisconsin. YES AmeriCorps is administered by
Workforce Connections, Inc.
Contact:
Linda Zimmerman,
608.785.7003
Pat Nugent, 608.789.5646
www.workforceconnections.org
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YMCA of
Metropolitan Milwaukee
YMCA AmeriCorps
Milwaukee,
Osceola
Description: Members
help deliver the YMCA vision to build strong kids, strong families and
communities through programs and services that will promote youth and teen
leadership development; citizenship; academic support; mentoring; community
development; and
environmental education and farming. Members also engage in a minimum of three
external service projects beyond their assigned service site. The service areas
range from the central city of Milwaukee to Osceola, Wisconsin as part of our
community farming and environmental education. Members are placed at city,
suburban, camp sites and rural sites.
Contact: Antoinette
Mensah, 414.274.0765
Casey Renn, 414.274.0724
www.ymcamke.org/americorps
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AmeriCorps
programs in Wisconsin
(not funded by Serve Wisconsin)
AmeriCorps*VISTA
Contact Linda Sunde, (414) 297-1118
AmeriCorps*NCCC
Contact Barbara Benner, (303) 844-7405
Boys &
Girls Club of Green Bay
Contact Darren
Vanderheyden, (920) 494-7090
Camphill
Association of
North America
Contact Lauren Bradburd, (518)
671-6832
CNVS/AmeriCorps Education
Awards Program
Contact Carolyn Shields, (202)
332-6000
Dane County Habitat
for Humanity
Contact Brian Miller, (608)
255-1549
Milwaukee Habitat for
Humanity
Contact Steve Tennies, (414) 562-6100,
www.milwaukeehabitat.org
National Association of
Service and Conservation Corps
Contact Leslie Wilkoff, (202)
737-6272,
www.nascc.org
National Association of
Minority Contractors
Contact Edward Payne, (414)
235-1398
National
Resources Foundation of Wisconsin
Contact David Clutter,
(608) 264-8922, www.wisconservation.org
Sixteenth Street Community
Health Center
Contact Kate Jaeger, (414)
672-1353,
www.sschc.org
The Student Conservation
Association
Each year, SCA
AmeriCorps members help to protect vital habitats, threatened wildlife, and
other at-risk resources in our nation's parks, forests and urban green spaces.
This unique experience instills an ethic of conservation and inspires lifelong
stewardship that benefits our members, our society and our environment. Expenses
are paid, the work is real, and the benefits to our world are undeniable.
Members serve at sites located in Wisconsin and in all other states nationwide.
Contact Heather Nowlan, (603) 543-1700,
www.thesca.org
Urban Education Fellows
Program
Contact Linda Delgadillo, (414)
382-9666
University of
Wisconsin-Parkside
Contact Kim White, (262)
595-2002
YouthBuild Racine Project
Contact Claudius Adebayo, (262)
636-3818
Youth Volunteer Corps of Atwood Community
Center-Eastside Chapter Madison
Contact Becky Steinhoff, (608)
241-1574
Youth Volunteer Corps of Racine
Contact Marilynn Pelky, (262)
886-9612
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