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. They are activated around natural disasters, tutoring students, combating hunger and homelessness, connecting veterans to services, fighting the opioid epidemic, and much more.  AmeriCorps grants and service members currently support over 2,000 organizations and millions of Americans in rural and urban areas across all 50 states. 

Despite being a proven, cost effective, and bipartisan program, the Administration has taken sudden steps to disrupt AmeriCorps since April 2025 – through grant terminations, the demobilization of AmeriCorps NCCC members, and the dismissal of nearly 85% of the agency staff. The President's FY26 Budget Request has proposed the elimination of AmeriCorps. 

Ask your Member of Congress to support the bipartisan FY26 Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill that rejects the proposed elimination in the President’s budget and maintains funding for AmeriCorps so our communities throughout the country can continue to count on AmeriCorps for help where it’s needed most.