What is the AmeriCorps Education Awards Program?
The AmeriCorps Education Awards Program expands opportunities for young people to serve as AmeriCorps members, brings new communities and new sponsors as partners in AmeriCorps, and brings new nonfederal resources to support service programs. Because the program streamlines AmeriCorps program and reporting requirements and establishes significant management and operational flexibility, the Education Awards Program is ideal for organizations that already sponsor community service efforts and can demonstrate their capacity to recruit, train, supervise, and generally support these AmeriCorps members. While the Corporation for National and Community Service provides little additional assistance, the members who successfully serve in such programs are eligible to receive an AmeriCorps Educational Award.