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    AmeriCorps Swears In First Energy Communities AmeriCorps Class to Spark Economic Growth and Job Creation in Rural Communities

    Stewards Individual Placement Program

    December 5th, 2024 | WASHINGTON, DC – Today, the inaugural Energy Communities AmeriCorps class launched their year of full-time service with a pledge to “get things done for America” by working with local leaders to advance economic development and job creation in rural energy communities across the country.

    Source: AmeriCorps

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    AmeriCorps Members on the Frontline in Florida Aid Hurricane Recovery Efforts on the Gulf Coast

    Southwest Conservation Corps

    November 18th, 2024 | TAMPA, Fla. — Over the weekend, AmeriCorps CEO Michael D. Smith visited Tampa, Sarasota, and other parts of Florida’s Gulf Coast, where AmeriCorps members are deployed in response to the impacts of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Smith met with AmeriCorps members, AmeriCorps Disaster Response Teams and community members who were impacted by the storms and received services from AmeriCorps.

    Source: AmeriCorps

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    Great Smoky Mountains National Park completes three-year restoration of Ramsey Cascades Trail

    Southeast Conservation Corps

    Gatlinburg, TN – November 18, 2024 | In collaboration with Friends of the Smokies, the National Park Service (NPS) has a completed a three-year restoration of the Ramsey Cascades Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Located in the Greenbrier area, this popular trail ascends through beautiful hardwood forests to the 105-foot Ramsey Cascades, the tallest waterfall in the park. The trail is now open seven days a week following an extensive reconstruction and rehabilitation.

    Source: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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    Conservation Legacy Welcomes Three New Board Members

    Durango, CO – October 28, 2024 | Conservation Legacy, a leader in the conservation corps industry, is excited to announce the appointment of three new members to its Board of Directors: Chris Bicknell, Dale Threatt-Taylor, and Koby Langley.

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    AmeriCorps Supports Disaster Recovery in North Carolina, Continues to Support States Impacted by Hurricane Helene

    October 9th, 2024 | Raleigh, N.C. — “Conservation Corps NC is committed to developing the next generation of conservation leaders for North Carolina, and our partnership with AmeriCorps is critical to that mission,” said Jessie Birckhead, Executive Director of Conservation Corps North Carolina. “Each year over 85 AmeriCorps members serve with CCNC helping protect and conserve our state’s incredible natural resources. We are committed to helping our community recover from the devastation of Hurricane Helene. In the coming weeks and months, our staff and members will support recovery efforts and help impacted communities begin to rebuild.”

    Source: AmeriCorps Press Release

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    Ancestral Lands Conservation Corps joins USGS for Grand Canyon Research Expedition

    Ancestral Lands

    August 16, 2024 - The 2024 Partners trip, led by trip leader Jen Lair, boat operator John Napier, and assistants Nichole Sanchez and Stephen Yazzie, served two ALCC crews and based out of Arizona and New Mexico and one all-Indigenous Southwest Conservation Corps Crew based out of Colorado. The youth and young adults on this trip belonged to a diversity of Tribes in the Southwest and beyond. The group included many Navajo and Hopi crewmembers, as well as crewmembers from Lakota, Muscogee Creek, Pyramid Lake Paiute, and White Mountain Apache Tribes.

    Source: USGS

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    EPCAMR Welcomes and Hosts AmeriCorps State & National Member Volunteer Morgan Romanowski For A Year of Coalfield Community Service

    Stewards Individual Placement Program

    September 10th, 2024 - The Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) is sponsoring an AmeriCorps State and National Member Volunteer, Morgan Romanowski, until September 5, 2025, through a partnership between the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement (OSMRE), AmeriCorps, and the Stewards Individual Placement Program (SIPP), a Program of Conservation Legacy. We’re proud to be a national non-profit partner in Pennsylvania.

    Source: Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR)

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    Lynchburg Water Resources Partners in Pedlar River Watershed Restoration Project

    September 4, 2024 – Lynchburg Water Resources is partnering with the U.S. Forest Service in its Pedlar River Watershed Restoration Project which includes ecological investments that will improve water quality in the Pedlar River and the Pedlar Reservoir, the City of Lynchburg’s main water source.

    Source: City of Lynchburg

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    Carlsbad Caverns: Preserving History, Building Futures

    August 30, 2024 - Carlsbad, NM – Deep beneath the desert, Carlsbad Caverns National Park holds not only a world of natural wonder, but it has also brought to the surface a new successful preservation model. With funding by the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), history above ground received some much-needed care.

    Source: National Park Service

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    Intern Spotlight: Olivia Smith

    Stewards Individual Placement Program

    August 27, 2024 - Meet Olivia Smith, who is a corps member with the National Parks of Boston Climate Conservation Corps through Conservation Legacy!

    Source: National Park Service

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