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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"AmeriCorps"”.
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Volunteerism in Crisis: AmeriCorps as Disaster Response
<p>AmeriCorps, the federal volunteer program developed in 1993, has won increasing political and cultural support since its development. Hurricane Katrina challenged program administrators to recruit and support volunteers in New Orleans, a uniquely devastated city. This qualitative study based on …
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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY INTO FULL-TIME AMERICORPS STATE AND NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
The purpose of this study was to determine how AmeriCorps State and National volunteers in school settings think the experience has influenced them, their goals, and future plans. I used semi structure interviews to investigate this question. Members I interviewed talked about the first-hand …
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The Importance Of Coaching: A Program Evaluation Of The Americorps College Completion Coaches Program
… colleges. This program evaluation highlights the AmeriCorps College Completion Coach program implemented across community colleges in Ohio during 2012–2017 under the leadership of the Ohio Association of Community Colleges (OACC). The program goal is to improve postsecondary credential obtainment …
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A Descriptive Study of the Foster Grandparent Program in Support of the Creation of an Afterschool Program to Address Food Insecurity and Chronic Disease Risk in Older Adults and Children
… health improvement by older adult volunteers in AmeriCorps Senior programs. However, little is known about how specific chronic diseases and mental health issues affect Foster Grandparents, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on volunteer activities for older adults. Using …
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Early Introduction of Computer Science Education in Minority Youth: A New Representation of Tomorrow's Engineers?
… The Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), AmeriCorps, and Google with a symbiotic goal to impact minorities and low-socioeconomic (SES) communities through education, mentoring, and capacity building. GCC project aims to empower BGC members by developing a successful and sustainable CS …
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Sustainable Community Development in Boom and Bust Economies: A Comparative Case Analysis of Institutional Stakeholder Interaction in Four Appalachian Natural Resource Dependent Locales
… Enforcement (OSMRE) formed a partnership with AmeriCorps VISTA and local environmental improvement organizations to restore Appalachian locales suffering from pre-regulatory environmental damage. To stimulate diverse local institutional engagement, the partnership developed the BEP. It is a …