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- AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. AmeriCorps members serve through more than 2,100 nonprofits, public agencies, and faith-based organizations. They tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, and help communities respond to disasters. Created in 1993, AmeriCorps is part of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which also oversees Senior Corps and Learn and Serve America. Together these programs engage more than 2 million Americans of all ages and backgrounds in service each year.
- To be successful in strengthening our culture to one of service, citizenship and responsibility, we must have the support and participation of our cultural institutions including schools, government, houses of worship, businesses and the nonprofit sector.
Engaging volunteers is not easy, but the results for our communities, for ourselves, and for our Nation are well worth the effort, and there are resources that can help you be successful in this important endeavor. The materials in this section include resources to help our cultural institutions advance community involvement and volunteer engagement to contribute to the cultural change that is underway across America.
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Notre Dame Mission Volunteer Program,
founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame de
Namur in 1992, has been placing
volunteers at sites nationwide to work
alongside God's people, especially the
economically disadvantaged. The
volunteers accomplish this mission by
promoting literacy and education.
AmeriCorps is a federally-funded
service program, commonly referred to as
the domestic Peace Corps, that brings
together citizens of diverse backgrounds
to serve communities in the areas of
education, public safety,
 human
needs and the environment. In 1995, NDMV
sought a partnership with AmeriCorps to
allow for an increase in the number of
members, offering greater community
service in financially-limited sites.
This partnership formed Notre Dame
Mission Volunteers-AmeriCorps.
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