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Introduction toAmeriCorps
 
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Wha
t is AmeriCorps?
Provides grants to organizations to run AmeriCorpsprograms.
Organizations design AmeriCorps programs that addresslocally-identified compelling community needs byengaging AmeriCorps members and volunteers in service.
An AmeriCorps project must enhance what anorganization was able to do before the grant, and cannotduplicate or supplant pre-existing activities, staff or volunteers.
 
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n AmeriCorps Progr 
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ms Do?
AmeriCorps programs address community needs in a variety of ways.Examples include:
Connecting the homeless with supportive services
Providing access to health care services
Building affordable housing
Recruiting and managing volunteers
Responding to natural disasters
Cleaning parklands and managing natural resources
Tutoring and mentoring youth
Training the unemployed
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