Join a network of motivated New Yorkers working to address the City's most pressing issues. In an NYC Service AmeriCorps program, expect to make an impact on your community and grow as a civic leader.
NYC Service AmeriCorps members serve at City agencies or NYC nonprofits, dedicating 10-month terms (September to June) to meaningful capacity-building projects. Whether conducting outreach, developing awareness campaigns, or recruiting new volunteers, AmeriCorps members contribute their time and skills to effecting positive change within New York City neighborhoods.
NYC Service AmeriCorps members earn valuable resume-building professional experience while building connections within and gaining exposure to City government or the NYC nonprofit sector. Members also receive the following benefits during their service term:
Individuals who complete their service term are also eligible to receive an Eli Segal AmeriCorps Education Award (valued at $5,176) upon completion, to put toward existing student loans or future education opportunities.
Which Program Is Right for You?
Serve a year in NYC as an AmeriCorps member in one of our programs. You will receive city government or nonprofit exposure, professional experience, Eli Segal AmeriCorps Education Award, MetroCard, health coverage, living allowance, and more! Which program is right for you?
Mobilize Volunteers - NYC Civic Corps
NYC Civic Corps recruits and places AmeriCorps members to serve full-time from September 2024 to June 2025 at select nonprofit organizations. NYC Civic Corps members build, develop, and grow volunteer programs by recruiting, managing, and engaging volunteers to address priority issues in New York City.
Engage Communities - City Service Corps
City Service Corps recruits individuals to serve full-time from September 2024 to June 2025 at City agency host sites. City Service Corps is comprised of high-impact service projects led by city agencies in impact areas addressing critical capacity and community-related issues.
Improve Health Outcomes - NYCHA Health Corps
NYCHA Health Corps is a new and exciting Public Health AmeriCorps program administered by NYC Service in close partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), in which NYCHA residents are recruited to serve full-time at community-based nonprofits and public agencies for 10 months from September 2024 to June 2025.
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Build Capacity to Allieviate Poverty - NYC VISTA
VISTA members serve at New York City government agencies full-time from July 2024 to August 2025 to address critical city issues related to poverty by engaging in capacity-building work. Capacity building refers to tasks and activities that create, expand or strengthen the systems and processes that help an organization carry out its anti-poverty work.
Young Adult Success Corps is under the branch of City Service Corps. Young Adult Success Corps recruits young adults under probation supervision to serve part-time from September 2024 to June 2025 at City agencies and CBOs. Young Adult Success Corps serves as both an important strategy for solving local challenges, but also a workforce development program for members and the City.
Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park
American Red Cross - Greater NY Region
Big Brothers Big Sisters of NYC
Boys Hope Girls Hope
Bronx is Blooming
Brownsville Partnership
Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health at Beford Stuyvesant , DOHMH
Bureau of Brooklyn Neighborhood Health at Brownsville, DOHMH
Bureau of Public Health Clinics , DOHMH
Center for Community Alternatives
Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans, Inc. (CIANA)
Children of Promise NYC
City Parks Foundation
Community Help in Park Slope
Community Meditation Center
Council on American-Islamic Relations - New York
Counseling in Schools
Sanitation Foundation, DSNY
Every Day is a Miracle
Extreme Kids & Crew
Family Health Centers at NYU Langone
Family Reentry, NYCHA
Food Bank for NYC
Futures & Options
GallopNYC
Graham Windham
Grassroots Grocery
Haitian-American Alliance of New York
International Rescue Committee
Knowledge House Fellowship
Lighthouse Guild
Lincoln Hospital, NYC Health + Hospitals
Little Sisters of the Assumption
Make the Road New York
Mary Mitchell Family & Youth Center
Maternity Hospital Quality Improvement Network (MHQIN) , DOHMH
Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
New York Academy of Sciences
North Brooklyn Parks Alliance
Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation
NYC Children
NYC Civic Engagement Commission
NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services
NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
NYC Department of Records & Information Services
NYC Department of Sanitation
NYC Emergency Management
NYC Human Resources Administration
NYC Mayor's Public Engagement Unit
NYC Parks
Office of Nutrition & Lifestyle Medicine, NYC Health + Hospitals
One Community
Osborne Association
Petey Greene Program
PowerPlay NYC
Private-Public Partnerships, NYCHA
Raising Health
Read718
Resident Health Initiatives , NYCHA
Resident Relocation Services , NYCHA
RETI Center
Ronald McDonald House New York
Scan Harbor
Seeds of Fortune
Services for the Underserved
South Bronx United
Take The Pressure Off, DOHMH
Team Kids
The Lower East Side Girls Club
Tisch Cancer Institute at Mount Sinai
Uptown Stories
Urban Debate League
Stories of Service
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