From training and learning opportunities to funding for further schooling, AmeriCorps service opens the door to a lifelong educational impact.

We sat down with Xochitl Quetzal to explore the motivations, challenges, and growth they experienced during their AmeriCorps gap year.

In the final part of this series, Tami explains what it’s like to use their volunteer recruiting skills to engage new AmeriCorps members.

Volunteer coordinators are tabling experts. Here, Tami explains what tabling is, how to be prepared, and what happens afterward.

What brings people to an AmeriCorps service term? What do we do outside of our term hours? Where do we plan to go next? 

Lauren Cono’s Peace Corps experience motivated her to serve again, this time closer to home, and this time with AmeriCorps. Learn more about her experience here.

Data drive decisions. In this installment of a Week in the Life of a volunteer coordinator, Tami covers data entry and Salesforce.

AmeriCorps volunteer coordinator Tami MacDonald documents their day-to-day experience and offers insights into community engagement work.

We asked several current and former AmeriCorps members to describe what it was like serving during COVID-19 in just a few words. 

This AmeriCorps member gives his reflections about traveling across the country for a service term and offers advice for future prospects.

This AmeriCorps member has spent the last year and a half serving during COVID. Here are her reflections from two unexpected service years.

Reading Partners AmeriCorps alum, Justin, shares his experience with taking a gap “year on” to gain professional skills before going back to college.

Serving with Reading Partners allows you to be at the center of education. Lend your talents and time to students in your community.

This AmeriCorps member took the experience she gained with Reading Partners to a reading interventionist role. Here are her reflections.

One of our distance tutoring coordinators showed us what a typical day looks like her for. Watch her “day in the life” here.

Sophia Rosman is an AmeriCorps member with Reading Partners Baltimore. Here, she shares her story and how she fell in love with working with students.

Our AmeriCorps members across the country serve their communities each and every day. In honor of the MLK Day of Service, Eve Dixon shares her story.

LatinX Heritage Month ends on October 15, but we always want to share resources and AmeriCorps members who reflect diverse communities. Enter Omar.

Here’s how a volunteer coordinator learned about the process of data management and the value of putting data into action.

How can service boost skills and offer crucial work experience? Three AmeriCorps members reflect on how service set them up for future career success.

Maybe you find yourself at a crossroads or are unsure about what you want to do next. Wherever you are, there is a path forward for you with AmeriCorps.

Jason Kelly first learned about Reading Partners Baltimore during a career fair at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He was…

Teresa Pangallozzi is a volunteer coordinator for Reading Partners. Read about how she makes a positive impact through her AmeriCorps position each day.

Through a data-driven study and first-hand accounts from alumni, researchers reveal that the Reading Partners AmeriCorps experience is unlike any other.

I moved from Charleston, SC to Oakland, CA for a year of service with AmeriCorps. Here are the three big things I learned about the relocation process.

Interested in national service, and making a meaningful difference in your own life and in the lives of others in the community? You’re already off to a great start!

Approximately 75,000 AmeriCorps members each year make the commitment to “get things done” through a year of service. Members dedicate a year to…

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?
January 20, 2020 marked the 25th anniversary of Martin Luther King…

There are many reasons to embark on a year of AmeriCorps national service. AmeriCorps offers a unique opportunity to gain professional experience…

Time often has a way of flying far faster than I feel it should. This can mean that when looking back on pivotal experiences and memories, whether a…

Since 1993, the Corporation for National Community Service has inspired people across the country to give back as part of a national service movement.…

What Martin Luther King Jr. shared was not only a dream, but a spirit of devotion to his community and the inspiration for a movement.

As part of this study, we’ve launched an online Americorps alumni survey for former Reading Partners AmeriCorps and VISTA members.

I decided to serve as an AmeriCorps member in Detroit Public Schools as a tutor, mentor, and role model. This turned out to be a pivotal year in my life. It helped me further understand the importance of service and how each individual can play a role in helping rebuild our communities.

When she first joined Reading Partners as a site coordinator in the Twin Cities, Grace had no idea she would end up staying with the organization much longer than her initial AmeriCorps term. Upon completing her first year, Grace then served as a regional site coordinator for a second year, but she didn’t stop there.

Our AmeriCorps members are crucial to achieving our mission, and our team is dedicated to making AmeriCorps service a rewarding and meaningful experience. Does this sound like a transformational experience you’d be interested in? Read on to learn more about the AmeriCorps positions currently available at Reading Partners for the 2018-19 school year.

Who better to ask for advice about the future than AmeriCorps alumni who have made successful transitions from Reading Partners to school and careers? I asked three former AmeriCorps members about their experiences serving with Reading Partners in the Twin Cities and where their AmeriCorps service has taken them next.

Learn how an a gap year spent serving with AmeriCorps can provide direction, experience, and inspiration.

During AmeriCorps week, we celebrate the impact of the people and programs all over the country who are committed to “Get Things Done”.

On Monday, January 15, Reading Partners will once again show community pride and live into the AmeriCorps mission of “getting things done”.

In my daily work as an AmeriCorps volunteer organizer with Reading Partners I am able to see the proverb, “It takes a village to raise a child,”…

Here at Reading Partners, we’d like to challenge you to participate in our Resolutions for Reading campaign by setting a resolution focused on bettering education in your community.

One of the many benefits of being involved with Reading Partners, whether you are a volunteer, AmeriCorps member, or full-time employee, is working with wonderful students. I asked a few Reading Partners AmeriCorps members and staff to share some stories of students who inspire them, to remind us of the many ways in which our incredible students inspire us every day.

At the beginning of my second term, I met some of the most interesting and insightful people at Reading Partners AmeriCorps Orientation. Now several months later, I contacted some of the new site coordinators to hear about how they feel about their first few months of service with Reading Partners.

As Hurricane Harvey closed out its devastation on Houston, AmeriCorps members were called to serve survivors who fled to North Texas.

Reading Partners’ diverse cohort of AmeriCorps members come from different walks of life. For some of us, serving through AmeriCorps was part of our…

Learn why many young educators are using AmeriCorps service as a stepping stone to a career in education.

By four o’clock Friday afternoon, a quiet calm settles across the elementary school campus. The custodian begins making the rounds, a string of…

Former superintendent of Tulsa Public Schools, Dr. Keith Ballard, served as an AmeriCorps member for a day at Eugene Field Elementary School.

Before joining Reading Partners, AmeriCorps members Lynette Kehoe and Jessica Montes completed an AmeriCorps term with City Year, serving in schools in a different capacity.

Our executive director for national and community service served in the Middle East for a cross-cultural study abroad program and for City Year before joining Reading Partners.

The New York Times recently reported that AmeriCorps may be at risk for elimination from the federal budget. These actions can help save national service.

Reading Partners AmeriCorps admissions manager Clanci Cochran shares her journey to AmeriCorps and how it led to her career working with new members.

Rae Cook, VISTA Leader and National Operations Coordinator at Reading Partners, describes her path to service and how she changed her life to give back.

Reading Partners’ current AmeriCorps members and alums share their tips for making the AmeriCorps stipend work.

AmeriCorps members participate in a day of service each year on MLK Day. MLK’s words and actions inspire new ways of asking life’s most persistent question.

AmeriCorps service offers benefits for everyone, including enriching career experiences, professional development, networking, and a culture of diversity.

Third year AmeriCorps member Jill Smith has moved across the country to serve with Reading Partners, where she pursues her passion for equitable education.

AmeriCorps members sometimes get recruited by their own families! Two sets of siblings serving through AmeriCorps for Reading Partners share their stories.

Reading Partners lobbied members of Congress on Capitol Hill with Voices for National Service, a public policy group focused on increasing congressional support for AmeriCorps.

AmeriCorps swore in its 1 millionth member last week in a momentous ceremony at NASA headquarters that featured the first-ever swearing-in from space.

During her time at the University of Maryland, Elizabeth Majchrzak fell in love with teaching as a Reading Partners volunteer. After graduation, she…

AmeriCorps members from diverse backgrounds serve in the community on 9/11 and reflect on hope for change.

AmeriCorps VISTA member returns for second year of service with Reading Partners, where she follows her passion for creating opportunities for students in low-income communities.

When faced with the question, “What is AmeriCorps?”, Nicole Vera responds with strong sentiments about the opportunity to make a difference.

During a term of service, Reading Partners AmeriCorps members gain transferrable skills and experiences that impact their future careers.

The AmeriCorps literacy lead is the newest role at Reading Partners. Learn about the important role they play in helping students learn to read.

Casey Dzubur has gone from being a volunteer reading partner to a second year Reading Partners AmeriCorps member all to support early education.

Ever wondered what Reading Partners AmeriCorps volunteer coordinators do? Marcela shares what her typical day is like and why she loves her position.

At the core of service is a shared goal – to make a difference. AmeriCorps members serving in local communities across the nation set out to address…

Ever wondered what Reading Partners AmeriCorps members do? Learn about a typical day for Pat Jeffers, a senior AmeriCorps site coordinator.

How one woman started her career in education through AmeriCorps service at Reading Partners.

In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., several AmeriCorps members at Reading Partners DC served at a local school with President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

This MLK Day, celebrate what national service is doing in communities across the United States every day.

After volunteering with Reading Partners, Tom Martin decided to leave retirement to serve as an AmeriCorps site coordinator in North Texas.

After threats of mass cuts, Congress announces a $40 million increase in funds to support national service. Here’s what service can do…

In the last 21 years, nearly one million men and women have signed up to #serveAyear with AmeriCorps, to make our country safer and stronger. Today,…

Millennials have embraced a greater commitment to service than ever before—surpassing their parents and grandparents in volunteering.

AmeriCorps programs like Teach For America, Reading Partners, and City Year are tackling the biggest issues in education.

Every year, idealistic individuals apply by the thousands to serve as AmeriCorps members. A desire to “commit to something bigger” drives these…

National service plays a critical role in serving some of our most vulnerable communities. Cuts to CNCS could result in fewer services to children.

Some of the biggest names in media, politics, and nonprofits, gather in Hollywood to launch the #serveAyear campaign. Making AmeriCorps service the new norm for young people in the U.S.

Fellow AmeriCorps members, alums, and national service supporters will join together to become reading partners for a day during AmeriCorps Week.

I have always loved the idiom “a person cannot step into the same river twice.” Credited to the Greek philosopher Hericlitus, the sentiment…

Weeks before the swearing in ceremony for AmeriCorps 20th anniversary Sylvie Lane, Vista Leader at Reading Partners, snapped a photo holding a sign in…

Every day, Reading Partners volunteers make a meaningful difference in the lives of students who need help unlocking their reading skills. We see it…

Katie Martin, a Reading Partners site coordinator who completed her second year of AmeriCorps service in Dallas, Texas, will be honored by the OneStar…

Meet Reading Partners’ AmeriCorps all-stars, celebrating 20 years of national service. Are you an Ameri-lifer?

This is Kelsey Lyles story of service. Kelsey served as a Reading Partners site coordinator at Leonard Flynn Elementary elementary school in San…

Reading Partners Celebrate National Service in Pairs: Honoring AmeriCorps’ 20th Anniversary
Starting in September 2013, AmeriCorps kicked off…

Dominique Tunzi is currently serving as a Senior AmeriCorps member at Reading Partners. In her first term of service she worked at Parkway and Ethel I…

On March 26, 2014, Reading Partners, along with 17 of the nation’s leading nonprofit organizations, announced their involvement in a campaign to…

Geraldine Fiesta is a Senior AmeriCorps Member in her second year of  service with Reading Partners Baltimore, serving as a Volunteer Coordinator.…

Adam Hill volunteered as a Reading Partners’ tutor at Berkley Maynard Academy in North Oakland before he served as an AmeriCorps Site Coordinator for…

AmeriCorps is a national service program supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) that provides opportunities for…

The original blog post, “Reading Partners Helps Grad Share Passion for Education,” appeared on the CNCS National Service Blog on February, 11, 2014…

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a noteworthy event each year. It is a day to remember our past, reflect upon our progress, and to consider the state…

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic…

Over the weekend, Reading Partners AmeriCorps members joined over 200 volunteers to build a playground for Aspire College Academy—one of our school…

Anjali’s Summer with Reading Partners
 

I was matched with Reading Partners for the summer before my senior year of college through a program…