print email comment close AmeriCorps URL: http://www.americorps.gov/ Description: Information about AmeriCorps and its service programs in which volunteers "tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disasters." Volunteers are awarded educational stipends after completing their term of service. The three AmeriCorps programs, State and National, VISTA, and the National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC), are administered by The Corporation for National and Community Service. Publisher: The Corporation for National and Community Service Library of Congress Subject Headings: AmeriCorps (U.S.) National service -- United States Voluntarism Volunteers in Service to America LII Database Information: Record 1023 created by Julianna Hamann on 05/29/2002 Last modification on 07/29/2009 Published: 05/29/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/1023