The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is committed to improving the lives of our fellow citizens through our signature AmeriCorps and Senior Corps programs. Last Friday, I joined local leaders and national service members and volunteers for a combined service project and grant announcement in Baltimore to announce $4.4 million in new investments to expand our programs in the city.
The new funds will support more than 630 additional AmeriCorps members and Senior Corps volunteers during the coming year — including 105 who will begin their service this summer — to tutor and mentor youth, build and repair homes, mentor ex-prisoners and youth offenders, clean neighborhoods, and help connect low-income communities to healthy food.