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Serve with AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps brings people together to serve communities. AmeriCorps members serve directly with organizations and nonprofits to tackle our nation's most pressing challenges. AmeriCorps offers opportunities focused on the following key areas: education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, economic opportunity, disaster response, and veterans & military families.
Members commit their time to address critical community needs like increasing academic achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, preparing for disasters, and more. AmeriCorps members typically serve at a site, which may be one of several sites served by a local AmeriCorps grantee or sponsor organization. Learn more about national service and AmeriCorps here.
Member Benefits
In addition to the reward of serving your country and giving back? Yes, the beneifts of service include, but are not limited to:
- Student Loan Deferment
- Skills and Training
- Living Allowance
- Education Award
- Limited Health Benefit Options
- Childcare coverage if eligible
- Career Opportunities
Apply Now!
Flint, MI has a robust culture of national service and volunteerism. There are many opportunities for you to get involved, so what are you waiting for? If you are looking for more information about AmeriCorps in Flint, please contact Civic Engagement Manager, Katie de Araujo, for more information!
Flint Community School Corps 
Focuses: Education, Youth, and Community Engagement
Service Term: Full-Time and Part-Time
The Flint Community School Corps Program is now accepting applications. APPLY TODAY!
FCSC Community School Corps is comprised of AmeriCorps State and VISTA members who provide during/after-school and summer learning activities for K-12 grade students and build capacity for community education in all Flint Community schools.
Community Resource Developer VISTAs are tasked with creating relationships between their school and its surrounding community. Student Success Coordinators mentor students in grades K-12 and implement strategies to support student academic and social-emotional wellness.
To learn more about the program or to apply visit their site!
AmeriCorps LISC National Program
Focuses: Housing, Community Development, and Employment
Service Term: Full-Time and Part-Time
The AmeriCorps LISC Program in Flint is now accepting applications. APPLY NOW!
LISC AmeriCorps members serve in vital roles in Flint supporting community development initiatives. LISC AmeriCorps places passionate, dedicated members with community development groups in Flint neighborhoods. The current open positions are at Crim Fitness Foundation, Communities First Inc, Neighborhood Engagement Hub, Mott FOC. The following positions are available in the upcoming year:
- Employment Coach
- Description: Conduct workshops around employability skills and support community outreach for potential FOC program participants
- Service Site: Mott Financial Opportunity Center
- Term: Summer
- Community Assessment Liasion
- Description: Complete short term projects in the neighborhoods in which Communities First works
- Service Site: Communities First Inc.
- Term: Summer
- Housing Development Assistant
- Description: Conduct housing market research and assist with coordination of housing development
- Service Site: Communities First Inc.
- Term: Summer
- Community Outreach Coordinator
- Description: Support programming that centers around community engagement, education, and advocacy on behalf of the Flint River and its watershed
- Service Site: Flint River Watershed Coalition
- Term: Summer
- Active Communities Program Assistant
- Service Site: Crim Fitness Foundation
- Term: Summer
For more information about the AmeriCorps LISC National program, contact Connie Brauer or Katie de Araujo.
Genesee County Opioid Abuse Prevention VISTA Program
Focuses: Substance Abuse Prevention and Healthy Futures
Service Term: Full-Time
The Genesee County Opioid Abuse Prevention VISTA Program is now accepting applications for an May 2021 Start Date with United Community Addiction Network..
The United Way is supporting VISTA members to be placed at community organizations who are combatting the opioid epidemic in Genesee County through education, prevention and recovery. AmeriCorps VISTA members will perform capacity building activities over the course of one year to reduce the number of opioid abuse incidences in the county. Member roles include resource development, training, community engagement, partnership management, and data/research.
To learn more, contact Katie de Araujo. To apply, click here.
Flint Urban Safety and Health Corps
Focuses: Healthy Futures, Community Development, and Community Engagement
Service Term: Full Time and Half Time
The Flint Urban Safety and Health Corps Program is accepting applications!
Are you passionate about fighting blight, neighborhood revitalization, and community engagement? Flint Recovery Corps AmeriCorps members provide programming related to food security and nutrition, behavioral and developmental health, early education, crime and blight prevention, and community building, and medical management through local nonprofit organizations as strategies toward long-term recovery from the water crisis.
Host Sites Currently Recruiting Members for 6 Month Full-Time Terms:
- UM Flint Office of Public Safety - Apply here!
For more information, contact Katie de Araujo.
Focuses: Education, Youth, and Literacy
Service Term: Full-Time and Summer
The K-3 Reading Corps is currently accepting applications! Apply for a summer position here and a fall position here!
Michigan Education Corps K-3 Reading Corps is a statewide initiative to help every Michigan child become proficient in reading by the end of 3rd grade. Members provide supplemental one-on-one language and literacy interventions using proven research-based literacy instruction and tools, and ultimately help struggling students achieve reading proficiency. Find out more about Reading Corps by clicking here.
Contact Ariel DuVal-Zinn with questions! Apply here! See the position description here.
American Red Cross- Together We Prepare 
Focuses: Disaster Services
Service Term: Full-Time
The Together We Prepare AmeriCorps Program is now accepting applications. APPLY TODAY!
Are you interested in helping the community be safer, more prepared, and more resilient? The AmeriCorps Together We Prepare (TWP) program is partnered with the Michigan Region of the American Red Cross with a primary focus in disaster services. As a TWP member you will provide disaster preparedness education to community members as well as local and national disaster response when needed. APPLY NOW!
For more information, contact Ellis Gambill.
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint VISTA Program
Focuses: Education, Youth, and Capacity Building
Service Term: Full-Time
The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint VISTA is accepting applications. APPLY HERE!
The mission of the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Flint is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens. VISTA members support programs to increase educational services and programs for the academic success of Flint youth. Are you interested in helping young people succeed? Apply Now! See open positions below.
Find out more about the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Flint by clicking here. For more information, contact Emily Leonard.
FoodCorps 
Focuses: Healthy Food Access and Education
Service Term: Full-Time
The FoodCorps Program in Flint will be accepting applications in January 2021 for service starting in July 2021.
Do you have a passion for gardening and healthy eating? As a service member, you'll implement FoodCorps; evidence-based strategies to help schools become healthier places to grow and learn. The majority of a service meber's time is spent teaching in the classroom and garden. You will lead hands-on lessons, influence healthy school meals, and build a schoolwide culture of health. Find out more about FoodCorps by clicking here.
For more information, contact Sharon Davenport.
Advise MI 
Focuses: Education, Youth, and College Access
Service Term: Full Time
The Advise MI Program is currently accepting applications for the 2021-2022 program year! Apply here to serve at Beecher/Genesee County High School!
AdviseMI is an AmeriCorps program hosted by the Michigan College Access Network. The program places recent graduates (bachelor's degree or higher) in selected high schools in Genesee County, particularly ones in communities with low college-going rates and low adult edicational attainment rates, to serve as college advisers. Serving alongside high school counselors and other school professionals, advisers support students as they make the transition from high school to postsecondary education.
Questions about AdviseMI and the application process for Genesee County should be directed to Ashley McCloud. Find out more about the Advise MI College Advising Program by clicking here.
Up2Us Coaches
Focuses: Youth, Healthy Futures, and Physical Education
Service Term: Full-Time
The Up2Us Program in Flint is no longer accepting applications. Check back in January 2021.
Are you passionate about helping kids reach their full potential through physical education and sports-based youth development? APPLY NOW! Find out more about Up2Us by clicking here.
For more information, contact Sharon Davenport.