Serve Wisconsin: Announces $1.5 Million in AmeriCorps funding for Dane and Columbia counties

[Madison, WI] – Serve Wisconsin proudly broadcasts that Wisconsin acquired $13.1 million in grant funding from AmeriCorps, the federal company for nationwide service and group volunteerism, to assist 31 applications and planning grants throughout the state. Included inside these funds is $1,576,663 in AmeriCorps funding for eight AmeriCorps applications particularly centered in Dane and Columbia counties, with a number of different statewide AmeriCorps applications additionally having members serving in space.

“This funding will put 880 AmeriCorps members on the bottom at over 200 service websites all through the state, together with over 140 AmeriCorps members in Dane County and Columbia County, to assist make a distinction and enhance the lives of individuals throughout Wisconsin,” mentioned Jeanne Duffy, Government Director of Serve Wisconsin.

“The AmeriCorps members will proceed and broaden on the over 1.2 million hours of service by Wisconsin AmeriCorps members over the past two years, as they helped to sort out a number of the hardest issues in Wisconsin, lots of which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic,” Duffy continued. “Throughout their service this 12 months, these new AmeriCorps members will positively influence the lives of individuals all through Wisconsin by addressing points together with the achievement hole and academic challenges, public well being and healthcare entry, opioid and substance abuse, financial alternative and housing availability, conservation and environmental sustainability, and different issues impacting communities throughout the state.”

2022-2023 Wisconsin AmeriCorps applications

The funding will assist the next AmeriCorps applications:

Dane County Division of Human Companies – Companions for After Faculty Success (PASS)   49 AmeriCorps members will likely be positioned in predominately low-income or resource-scarce communities to boost the educational achievement and college engagement of center and highschool youth by means of optimistic relationships, tutorial teaching and tutoring, prolonged studying applications, and volunteer service.

Easterseals Wisconsin  36 AmeriCorps members will present intensive private care and lead or facilitate therapeutic recreation actions for people with disabilities and their households at Camp Wawbeek and Respite Camp. AmeriCorps members additionally present therapeutic recreation actions for veterans and their members of the family at Veteran Household Camps.

Renewal Limitless, Inc. Recent Begin Program  25 AmeriCorps members will assemble two single-family properties to be bought to low-income and moderate-income households. Whereas engaged on the homes, they develop instructional, pre-employment, job, impartial dwelling and management expertise.

United Method of Dane County – Achievement Connections 18 AmeriCorps members tutor highschool college students in math and leverage further volunteers to supply tutoring to extend the variety of college students who go Algebra by tenth grade.

United Method of Dane County – Faculties of Hope AmeriCorps Venture 16 AmeriCorps members will function literacy tutors and tutor coordinators in high-need elementary colleges the place they work with workers to extend college students’ literacy expertise in kindergarten by means of fifth grade.

Future Packages

The next organizations acquired a grant to develop a brand new program or broaden an current program, that are anticipated to start within the Fall of 2023. 

 Boys and Women Golf equipment of Dane County  AmeriCorps members will assist youth by offering faculty preparation and profession readiness programming, tutorial tutoring, and different digital programming, in addition to supporting efforts specializing in youth advocacy, meals safety, sustainability, and program improvement.

 College of Wisconsin System – Athletic Coaching Service Corps AmeriCorps members will likely be positioned in underserved excessive colleges to enhance well being outcomes for college students by offering school-based well being care, making referrals to group well being care assets, and serving as an academic useful resource hub for college students.

College of Wisconsin System – Wisconsin 4-H Increasing Entry AmeriCorps members will likely be positioned all through the state in partnership with county-based youth improvement professionals to design and implement community-based, extremely efficient, and evidenced-based youth improvement programming to help youth in underrepresented and underserved communities.

The distinctive mannequin for AmeriCorps means the Wisconsin AmeriCorps applications will leverage an extra $8.2 million from the personal sector, foundations, and different sources, together with over $1.9 by the applications centered in Dane and Columbia counties, additional rising the return on the federal funding for Wisconsin communities.

AmeriCorps members make a crucial distinction by means of their service by educating college students for the twenty first century workforce, supporting veterans and army households, finishing conservation initiatives, tackling the opioid epidemic, selling financial alternative in our communities, serving to folks to dwell more healthy lives, and thru a number of different initiatives to make their native communities stronger. Moreover, they’ve performed a crucial function serving to communities all through america recuperate from flooding, hurricanes, wildfires, and different nationwide disasters.

For the previous 12 months, hundreds of AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors members throughout all 50 states and U.S. territories have continued their service, shortly adapting to fulfill the altering wants brought on by the pandemic. Devoted members have continued in supporting communities as they reply and recuperate from the influence of COVID-19, growing new methods to ship the identical providers to maintain each themselves and people they serve secure.

Yearly, 75,000 AmeriCorps members serve by means of hundreds of nonprofit, group and faith-based organizations throughout the nation. Since 1994, AmeriCorps members have offered greater than 1.6 billion hours of service and earned almost $4 billion in training awards to pay for faculty or pay again pupil loans. Included inside these numbers are the greater than 29,000 Wisconsin residents have served roughly 44 million hours and earned training awards totaling greater than $113.9 million. These desirous about serving can be taught extra at AmeriCorps.gov/be a part of.

For extra details about the AmeriCorps funding for Serve Wisconsin’s thirty-one 2022-23 AmeriCorps applications and planning grants throughout the state, go to this launch: Serve Wisconsin Proclaims $13.1 Million in AmeriCorps Funding for Wisconsin