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The Wyoming Conservation Corps’ mission is to promote individual development, stewardship, and education through localized national service. The WCC continues this legacy by carrying out the highest caliber of service for Wyoming’s public lands through AmeriCorps.
Since 2006, Wyoming Conservation Corps and AmeriCorps have partnered to connect students to natural resource and environmental experiences while promoting leadership. AmeriCorps is a national service program that allows organizations like WCC to meet critical environmental and community needs. WCC receives a federal AmeriCorps grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service through ServeWyoming, the state commission of AmeriCorps.
AmeriCorps provides opportunities for 75,000 Americans to give back in an intensive way to their communities and country each year. It consists of three main programs: AmeriCorps State and National, whose members serve more than 2,900 national and local nonprofit and community groups; AmeriCorps VISTA, through which members serve full time-fighting poverty; and AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps), a team-based residential program for young adults 18-24 who carry out projects in public safety, the environment, youth development, and disaster relief and preparedness.
What do AmeriCorps Members do?
AmeriCorps members do a wide range of things. They recruit, train, and supervise community volunteers, tutor and mentor youth, build affordable housing, teach computer skills, clean parks and streams, run after-school programs, help communities respond to disasters, and build the capacity of nonprofit groups to become self-sustaining, among many other activities.
What Benefits Do AmeriCorps Members Receive?
In exchange for a year of full-time service, members earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award that can be used to pay for college or graduate school or to pay back qualified student loans. Awards are pro-rated for part-time service. Some members also receive a living allowance and health care.
AmeriCorps Fast Facts
ServeWyoming promotes collaborative efforts among private, non-profit and governmental organizations that advance community service, volunteer programs, and activities in each Wyoming community. We also collaborate with other Corporation for National & Community Service programs such as AmeriCorps VISTA, Learn & Serve America, and Senior Corps. ServeWyoming allows every citizen to help solve our biggest challenges in education, the environment, public safety, human needs, and homeland security. In addition to funding organizations throughout the state, our Commission has the role of developing, communicating and promoting a statewide vision and ethic of service in Wyoming. To attain this, we are working on a variety of projects that include:
connect with usEmail: wcc@uwyo.edu Organization Website: https://wyoconservationcorps.org/
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