What Will You Do as an AmeriCorps Member?

The service activities of AmeriCorps members will depend on the program. However, here is a sampling of member service activities by focus area:

Education

• Providing targeted tutoring in language arts and math to students in high priority schools who tested below grade level;
• Placing members as service-learning coordinators in schools and after-school programs; and,
• Improving the quality and availability of child development programs by serving in day care, Head Start centers and preschool programs.

Las Cruces

Families & Youth Innovations Plus

Families & Youth Innovations Plus' mission is to increase academic success among children and youth placed at risk, through a universal approach providing tutoring, mentoring, and other social services.

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Santa Fe

Boys and Girls Clubs of Santa Fe

AmeriCorps members with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Santa Fe help build good decision making and resistance skills in youth and teens in northern New Mexican schools and Boys & Girls Clubs sites.

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Albuquerque

Albuquerque Sign Language Academy

The Albuquerque Sign Language Academy proposes an operational grant in the AmeriCorps Focus Area of Learning Loss Interventions. Albuquerque Sign Language Academy will be responsible for developing an AmeriCorps intervention that will result in improved academic performance in literacy and/or math.

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Environmental Stewardship

• Eliminating environmental risks, especially those that affect children and youth, such as lead poisoning and radon exposure;
• Engaging community volunteers in ongoing environmental monitoring, such as water quality testing; and,
• Assessing, restoring and stewarding local watersheds.

Taos and Albuquerque

Rocky Mountain Youth Corps

RMYC AmeriCorps crews partner with public land management agencies, local municipalities, state departments and others to revitalizes communities, preserve and restore the environment, prepare young people for responsible, positive lives and build civic spirit through service.

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Ruidoso

EcoServants

EcoServants is a local grass roots nonprofit in Ruidoso, NM, established in 2003. AmeriCorps members serve in either Lincoln or Otero County and help improve, restore, or sustainably create trails, remove noxious weeds, improve parks, provide forest monitoring, stand examinations, participate in White Mountain Search and Rescue, and provide disaster relief.

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Albuquerque and Las Cruces

Conservation Legacy

Ancestral Lands and Conservation Corps are programs of Conservation Legacy (statewide, with a focus on environmental stewardship).

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Disaster Services

• Leads coordination efforts across all phases of disaster services
• Providing technical assistance, volunteer management, training support and more

See RMYC and Conservation Legacy above.

Economic Opportunity

• Provide training in hard skills, such as:
• Earning degrees and gaining work experience
• Essential skills all employers look for including leadership, problem-solving, teamwork, and communication.
• Help individuals find jobs and reduce the skills hap in high-growth sectors, including health services, construction, technology, energy, and education.

Albuquerque

Mandy's Farm

Mandy's Farm, a nonprofit organization based out of the South Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico, serves adults with developmental disabilities in their homes, the community, and the workplace.

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Taos

DreamTree Project

DreamTree Project believes that increased outreach and coordinated pathway navigation are necessary in Taos County to locate and connect hidden populations to nonprofit programs and services that will improve residents’ quality of life and allow for a higher standard of living.

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Veterans and Military Families

• Connect veterans and military families to education, jobs, housing, and earned benefits
• Welcome veterans into national service roles, thereby leveraging skills to address pressing challenges such as responding to disasters, building homes, mentoring youth, and supporting fellow veterans.

Examples of programs include: Building capacity at veteran serving organizations, transitional assistance back to civilian life, disabled veterans coaching, military children tutoring

Healthy Futures

• Focus on health care access, aging in place, food security, substance use disorder, public safety, and homelessness. 
• Address community health needs, including health education, mental health, and childhood obesity, especially in communities where the need is greatest. 

Examples of programs include: addressing food insecurity, community gardens, facilitation of support groups, substance use prevention programs, resources for recovery support

Looking for Something Else?

Explore the AmeriCorps website's Advanced Listing Search to find opportunities that are suited to your particular skills, interests, and circumstances.

This advanced search involves three steps: selecting the issue area (or areas) of interest to you; selecting one or more geographic area where you would be interested in serving; and clicking the "Search" button.