For the last three decades, AmeriCorps members have responded to our country’s most immediate and critical needs. They are the “people power” that local nonprofit, faith-based, and community organizations rely on to deliver services and make a difference in local communities. While helping others, AmeriCorps members gain in-demand job skills and complete their service with increased employability and pathways to higher education, preparing a cohort of Americans to succeed in the workforce.  

Each year, roughly 75,000 AmeriCorps members and 140,000 AmeriCorps Seniors are deployed to address locally determined needs in rural and urban communities across all 50 states, such as responding to natural disasters, tutoring students, combating hunger and homelessness, connecting veterans to services, fighting the opioid epidemic, and much more.  

Since April 16, the Administration has taken sudden steps to rollback AmeriCorps. Their actions include:   

• Issuing stop work orders to 750 AmeriCorps NCCC and FEMA Corps members, abruptly ending their service terms with no notice. 
• Dismissing nearly 85% of AmeriCorps agency staff, disrupting key functions such as program operations, member enrollment and deployment, and grant disbursement. 
• Terminating close to $400 million in grant funding, a move that will impact over 1,000 local and community organizations and prematurely end the service of over 32,000 AmeriCorps members and AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers. 

These actions will leave communities across the country without critical services and over 32,000 service members will be forced to exit the program, losing their AmeriCorps living allowances, benefits, and workforce development opportunities. At a time when state and local communities are experiencing significant natural disasters, increased social service needs, workforce gaps, and more, AmeriCorps delivers urgently needed resources to support communities across the country. 

Ask your Member of Congress to protect AmeriCorps, so our communities throughout the country can continue to count on AmeriCorps for help where it’s needed most.