AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is an opportunity to make a big difference in your life and in the lives of those around you. As a member, you will learn teamwork, leadership, responsibility and other essential skills that will help you for the rest of your life. Additionally, you will gain the personal satisfaction of taking on challenges and seeing results.
AmeriCorps members assist students with the college enrollment process (admissions, testing, academic advising, financial aid, orientation, registration, etc.), facilitate parent workshops, and serve as a liaison for students (at ISD high schools and other designated venues, via phone and/or email). Members will maintain program activity logs, compile reports, and other required documentation.
Each year the AmeriCorps Program serves over 4,500 12th grade students; AmeriCorps members answer questions and guide students with all college enrollment requirements. AmeriCorps engages more than 80,000 Americans in intensive service each year at nonprofits, schools, public agencies, and community and faith-based groups across the country.
Application
Spring application now available. To apply Click here. Deadline to apply is November 28, 2018.
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AmeriCorps Offers Tangible Benefits
- Member who satisfactorily completes service will earn for each term served a $1,566.14 educational award
- Semi-monthly $350 stipend will be provided during a term of 4 and a half months
- Pre-Service Orientation on time management skills, leadership skills, civic reflection, and public speaking
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Segal AmeriCorps Education Award
The Segal AmeriCorps Education Award is a post-service benefit received by participants who complete a term of national service in an approved AmeriCorps program.
The education award may be used to pay educational costs at eligible post-secondary educational institutions (including many technical schools and GI-Bill approved educational programs), as well as to repay qualified student loans. The dollar amount of a full-time award is based on the maximum amount of the U.S. Department of Education’s Pell Grant, thus it can vary from year to year. Currently, AmeriCorps members may earn up to the value of two full-time education awards and have seven years from the date they earned each award to use it.
Members can divide an award and use portions of it at different times before it expires, as long as it is for authorized expenditures.
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Requirement to Join
- Be a U.S. Citizen or Legal Permanent Resident
- 2.5 GPA
- 24 credit hours completed
- Bilingual Preferred (English and Spanish)
- Be able to commit to
serve for full 4.5 months for 22-25 hours a week, mainly from9AM to4PM , M-F (not completing commitment can have negative repercussions). - Excellent customer service skills
- Application from utrgv.edu/americorps
- Résumé
- Unofficial transcript
- Enrolled for Spring 2018
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Community Service Activities
- FAFSA/TASFA Super Saturday
- MLK Day of Service – A day-on not a day-off
- United We Serve
- AmeriCorps Week
- University Day
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Program Overview
- AmeriCorps members will serve a 4 and a half month term:
- Fall: from August 6,
2018 to December 14, 2018 - Spring: from January 4,
2019 to May 15, 2019 - 22-25 hours per week on average
- 80 percent of the time will be spent at assigned high school
- Members can serve up to 4 terms
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AmeriCorps Fast Facts
Figure
Description
1 million +
Number of people who have served as AmeriCorps members since 1994
1.4 billion
Total number of hours served by AmeriCorps members since 1994
1.9 million
Number of community volunteers managed or mobilized by AmeriCorps members last year
$1 billion
Value of cash and in-kind donations leveraged by AmeriCorps members each year
21,600
Unique sites that AmeriCorps members served last year
$3.6 billion
Total amount of Segal AmeriCorps Education Awards earned by AmeriCorps members since 1994
75,000
AmeriCorps Members serve annually
Contact Us
Brownsville Location:
U Central
The Tower, Main 1.100
1 West University Blvd.
Brownsville, TX 78520
956-882-7321
AmeriCorps@utrgv.edu
Edinburg Location:
U Central
1st Floor Student Services Building (SSBL)
1201 West University Drive
Edinburg, Texas 78539
956-665-2157
AmeriCorps@utrgv.edu