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What is AmeriCorps?
 Michigan's AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a national service program designed to strengthen citizenship and the ethic of service by engaging thousands of Americans on a full-time or part-time basis to help communities to address their toughest challenges. The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) administers AmeriCorps at the federal level and works in partnership with states to develop service programs and create a community-based national service network. The Michigan Community Service Commission (MCSC) is the administrative agent for Michigan's AmeriCorps. |
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Spotlight
• 2012 Michigan's AmeriCorps Russ Mawby Signature Service Project Impacts Traverse City
The Russ Mawby Signature Service Project is an annual event. Each year AmeriCorps members from all around Michigan join together for two days of training, teambuilding, and service. In 2012, the Signature Service Project was held in Traverse City, Michigan. | • 2012 Michigan's AmeriCorps Inclusion Video Contest
The Michigan's AmeriCorps Inclusion Video contest was created to encourage AmeriCorps members and/or AmeriCorps program sites to produce a video to document and display how Michigan's AmeriCorps programs promote, embrace, and incorporate the Michigan Community Service Commission mission of inclusion within their respective service areas. Check out submitted videos here. | • I AM AmeriCorps: The Viral Campaign
We need you! Have you been affiliated with or served by AmeriCorps (State, National, NCCC, and VISTA) in any way? There is no doubt that AmeriCorps changes lives and gets things done! You can help us make this common knowledge across social media such as Facebook and Twitter. We will attempt to give every user at least one glimpse of what AmeriCorps is doing.
| • Michigan's AmeriCorps LeaderCorps Blog
The Michigan's AmeriCorps LeaderCorps writes a blog to document their yearlong efforts. Click on the above link to read their stories on training, service, and the overall AmeriCorps experience. It's a must read! |
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Member/Site Supervisors of the Month
 Michigan's AmeriCorps Member of the Month
MAY 2012: Cara Zerbel is a first year Michigan's AmeriCorps member serving with Michigan's Campaign to End Homelessness AmeriCorps Program at the Community Action House in Holland, Mich. Though many members face uncertainty when they first join AmeriCorps, Cara seemed to "get" her important role as an AmeriCorps member from the very beginning, seeking out ways that she could maximize her service experience. |  Michigan's AmeriCorps Site Supervisor of the Month
MAY 2012: As coordinator of the Neighbors Plus Alternative Suspension Program (ASP), Karen DeMaagd understands the challenges that youth growing up in today's society face. ASP provides an opportunity for middle school students who have been suspended from school in the West Ottawa School district to attend a classroom-like environment for the duration of their suspension. In addition to her role of coordinating admissions, collecting schoolwork from teachers, communicating with administrators ... |  Michigan's AmeriCorps Site Supervisor of the Month
MAY 2012: Elsa Hill is the Site Coordinator for the Schools of Hope program at Campau Park Elementary School in the Grand Rapids Public School district. As a paraprofessional in the Schools of Hope room, Elsa facilitates reading tutoring with volunteers from the community and supervises an AmeriCorps member three days a week. |
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AmeriCorps Alums/Alum of the Month
 Michigan's AmeriCorps Alum of the Month
MAY 2012: Since the inception of AmeriCorps in 1994, more than 22,000 Michigan residents have given a year of their lives to service through Michigan's AmeriCorps. To recognize the important impact these members make during their term of service and after, the MCSC created the Outstanding AmeriCorps Alum Award. Presented for the first time in 2012 at the Giving and Volunteer Day Celebration on April 18, this award honors a Michigan's AmeriCorps alumnus who embodies the spirit of AmeriCorps and ... |  AmeriCorps Alums
Calling all friends of AmeriCorps! Join AmeriCorps alums, current AmeriCorps members, and champions of service in the AmeriCorps Alums network. Registration is free and entitles you to many benefits, including career search assistance, discounts, and networking opportunities. |
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