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Get Things Done for Austin and Central Texas

AmeriCorps is an opportunity to make a big difference in your life and in the lives of those around you. It's a chance to apply your skills and ideals toward helping others and meeting critical needs in the community. Each year, AmeriCorps offers 75,000 opportunities for adults of all ages and backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups. Whether your service makes a community safer, gives a child a second chance, or helps protect the environment, you'll be getting things done through AmeriCorps!

Check out the program descriptions below for the AmeriCorps*State programs in Austin. To learn more about the benefits of AmeriCorps (living allowance, education award, health insurance, etc.) see www.americorps.org/for_individuals/benefits.

Austin AmeriCorps*State Programs

ACEE: AmeriCorps for Community Engagement and Education

ACEE is an early literacy intervention program that works to ensure all children build a strong foundation in reading during their first years in school. ACEE members tutor young children (pre-k through first grade) in reading, teach ESL classes, conduct parent literacy workshops and literacy based Family Fun Nights, and co-chair the Día de los niños/Día de los libros bilingual family literacy day. Members receive extensive initial and ongoing weekly training from literacy specialists. Our goal is that half of our members are proficient in Spanish, but this is not a requirement to apply. Full-time and part-time positions are available for September through May or June. Full-time applicants please contact: aceeinfo@gmail.com. Part-time applicants please contact utaceeinfo@gmail.com. Visit ACEE's website for more information.

American Youthworks: American YouthWorks Environmental Corps

Members of E-Corps build parks, maintain trails and do environmental projects, often spending weeks camped out in back country areas across the state. Full and part-time positions; start dates in January or June. Visit the website for more information.

ASSET*AmeriCorps - Active Service Solutions for Economic Transition

ASSET, an AmeriCorps program of United Cerebral Palsy of Texas, addresses the money management, housing, and assistive technology needs of people with disabilities who are experiencing various transitions. Statewide ASSET*AmeriCorps members, better known as ASSET Navigators, assist individuals with disabilities in flexible one-to-one, small-group, or class-like settings to work toward their independence goals. Want to learn more about the Navigator experience? Visit or contact.

Catholic Charities of Central Texas

Catholic Charities is seeking members to provide case management services and facilitate workshops to victims of natural disasters. Positions are available in Austin, Bryan, Temple, and Marble Falls. Catholic Charities of Central Texas is a collaborative organization with programs that address the diverse needs of people in Central Texas. Contact Mari Hernandez at melanie-ann-watson@austindiocese.org.

College Forward

Members of the College Forward AmeriCorps program provide free college preparatory and retention services to high school juniors and seniors, facilitating their application and matriculation to college. The program promotes academic achievement, student retention, career exploration, and service-learning opportunities. Full- and part-time positions available. Contact: americorps@collegeforward.org or 512-452-4800.

Communities in Schools—Central Texas

Members of CIS-CT AmeriCorps mentor and tutor public school students in grades 4-8 who are at-risk of dropping out. Members receive extensive pre-service and ongoing training to empower them to be excellent tutors, supportive mentors, and leaders of service-learning projects. Full and part time positions available for September-August. Contact americorps@cisaustin.org or 512-464-9733, or apply on the CIS-CT website.

Go Centers—College for All Texans

Go Centers College for All Texans AmeriCorps members serve in high school college and career centers, known GO Centers, to encourage higher education after graduation and provide a college-going culture among students, parents, and the community. Our members work with students individually and/or in small groups to provide mentoring, college admission, financial aid assistance, test preparation, and career exploration for students in 9th-12th grade. Contact Claudette Jenks at 512-427-6529 or email claudette.jenks@thecb.state.tx.us, or visit the website for additional information.

Goodwill Industries of Central Texas

Members of the Goodwill Industries of Central Texas AmeriCorps Program focus on Youth Development, Financial Literacy, Employer Development, and Volunteer Management. The individuals provide direct service to participants in Goodwill's various programs and recruit volunteers to further Goodwill's mission.  Full- and part-time positions are available. Email americorps@austingoodwill.org for more information, or please fax resume and Goodwill application to 512-480-5948. Please write "Americorps Member" as the position you are seeking on the application.

Habitat for Humanity

Austin Habitat for Humanity works in partnership with people from all walks of life, to put our faith into action by building affordable, quality houses for families. Our goal is to eliminate poverty housing, one family at a time. Austin Habitat has 16 AmeriCorps positions in construction/deconstruction and 4 Vista positions in volunteer services, family services, and public relations. Apply at www.americorps.org.

Keep Austin Housed AmeriCorps*State Program

Keep Austin Housed is an AmeriCorps project of Front Steps, provides intensive mentoring and case management services to Austin area adults, families and youth experiencing homelessness, at-risk of becoming homeless, and who are formerly homeless. The project partners with local social service agencies to augment existing service delivery systems, providing service sites for AmeriCorps members to carry out their term of service. Members will be serving in issue areas of shelter and housing, mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, general health, education, basic needs, and refugee services. In addition to members being engaged in direct service delivery, they will be involved in community service projects, project enhancement efforts, and regular reflection and training opportunities. Keep Austin Housed is currently has positions available for a 12 month term beginning in August 2008. For more information, contact Kassi Darakhshan at kdarakhshan@frontsteps.org or visit www.keepaustinhoused.org.

Travis County 4-H CAPITAL AmeriCorps: 4-H CAPITAL

Through hands-on scientific learning experiences, 4H CAPITAL provides quality science and outdoor education to underserved Austin youth in a variety of out-of-school environments, after-school clubs, and camps. 4-H programs promote leadership, citizenship, scientific literacy, health, life skills, and academic development. AmeriCorps Program year is mid-August through end of May/June. Full and part-time positions available. Visit 4hcapital.org, or email travisac@ag.tamu.edu to request an application.

AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America)

Full-time positions only. Help nonprofits that serve low-income communities to build capacity and work toward long-term sustainability. The primary difference between VISTA and AmeriCorps*State programs are that VISTA is only full time, and VISTA members do not do direct service with clients, but work for agencies to build their capacity to serve (i.e., volunteer management, fund development, PR/Marketing, etc. Openings are available in a wide range of agencies in Central Texas. See www.americorps.org for more information.

For more information about AmeriCorps opportunities in the state of Texas see www.onestarfoundation.org. For more information about AmeriCorps opportunities nationally, visit www.americorps.org.

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