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Serve Your City, Shape Your Future - Join NYC Civic Corps! 

As an NYC Civic Corps member, you’ll receive real-world professional experience at a City agency or nonprofit while tackling some of New York City’s most pressing challenges.

During your 10-month service term (October to July) you’ll get paid to serve your city, channel your passions, and jumpstart your career by practicing skills like project management, community outreach, or volunteer engagement at your host site.

NYC Service sets you up for success during and after your service term--connecting you to a cohort of future public leaders, providing you with trainings and career planning, and offering additional benefits.

Last year our AmeriCorps members made a difference in the lives of over 88,000 New Yorkers. Will you join the call to service?

**AmeriCorps Applications Are Now Closed**
Sign up for updates on next year's programs here!

Review our information session slides here.
Program Term: October 14, 2025 - July 17, 2026

 



How Can You Make an Impact?

Our members are managing volunteers in food pantries, cleaning up streets and local parks, mentoring youth, responding to city emergencies, and connecting low-income communities to health resources. Whatever your passion, NYC Civic Corps has a position for you!

  • Community Development
  • Education
  • Environment & Sustainability
  • Food Access
  • Public Health
  • Youth & Education

 

Why Join AmeriCorps?

NYC Civic Corps 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:

  • Living allowance (up to $24,500 pre-tax)
  • Transportation benefits (monthly 30-Day Unlimited MetroCards or OMNY benefits)
  • 15 days PTO, plus recognized calendar holidays
  • Loan forbearance
  • Healthcare coverage
  • Childcare assistance, if eligible
  • Eligible for SNAP benefits
  • Monthly training and networking opportunities

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.
 

Are You Eligible?

Before submitting your application, make sure you meet all the eligibility requirements below. Individuals accepted into the program will need to share documentation confirming the following before being officially placed at a host site.

To serve in NYC Civic Corps, you must:

  • Be 18 years or older
  • Have received your high school diploma (or equivalent) by October 1, 2025
  • Be a U.S. citizen, national, or lawful permanent resident
  • Consent to and pass a National Service Criminal History Check
  • Be available to serve full-time (35 hours per week) from October 2025 to July 2026
     


Stories of Service

Learn more about the transformative experiences of our AmeriCorps members as they embark on their service journeys.

Read Our Articles

 


Our 2025-2026 Host Sites

Find the role that's right for you! Apply for positions at one of our current nonprofit or city agency partners:

Nonprofits City Agencies

ACT Care Foundation Inc.
Actors Theatre Workshop, Inc.
Advent Lutheran Church
Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park
The Bronx is Blooming, Inc.
Brooklyn Book Bodega
Council on American Islamic Relations - New York
Counseling in Schools
CIANA
Children of Promise, NYC
City Relief
Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation
Dance Parade, Inc.
Every Day is a Miracle
Extreme Kids and Crew
The Floating Hospital

Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project
Free Arts for Abused Children NYC

FundaveNYC
Futures and Options
GlamourGals Foundation, Inc.
Good Old Lower East Side, Inc. (GOLES)
Governor's Committee on Scholastic Achievement (GCSA)
Graham Windham
Grow Brooklyn
Harlem Junior Tennis and Education Program (HJTEP)

International Rescue Committee in New York
The Knowledge House
Lighthouse Guild
Living Redemption Youth Opportunity HUB
The Lower Eastside Girls Club
LSA Family Health Service

Mary Mitchell Family and Youth Center
Maspeth Town Hall, Inc.
Neighborhood Association for Intercultural Affairs (NAICA)

New York Academy of Sciences
One Community
The Opportunity Hub
Petey Greene Program
Project New Yorker Corporation
RaisingHealth Partners

Reti Center
Riverstone Senior Life Services Inc.
Services for the UnderServed, Inc.
South Bronx United

Start Lighthouse
Staten Island NFP Association
StreetSquash Inc.

Team Kids
United Community Schools

United for Brownsville
United Methodist Center in Far Rockaway, Inc.
Uptown & Boogie Healthy Project
Uptown Stories
Waterfront Alliance
West Side Commons; Stryckers Bay Neighborhood Council
Youth Action YouthBuild

Aging, Department of Aging
CCHR, Commission on Human Rights

CEC, Civic Engagement Commission
DCAS, Dept of Citywide Administrative Services (NYC Fleet)
DCAS, Dept of Citywide Administrative Services (Workforce)
DCWP, NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection
DHS, Department of Homeless Services 
DOHMH, Brownsville Neighborhood Health Action Center
DOHMH, Public Health Nutrition and Research Science
DOHMH, Neighborhood Rat Mitigation

DOP, Department of Probation, YASC Young Adult Success Corps
DORIS, NYC Department of Records and Information Services
DOT, Department of Transportation
DSNY, Department of Sanitation
DSNY, Sanitation Foundation
DVS, Dept of Veterans' Services
HRA, Adults Protective Services (DSS)
HRA, The Office of Child Support Services (with DSS)
MFTA, Materials for the Arts; DCLA Department of Cultural Affairs
MOCS, Mayor’s Office of Contract Services
MOIA, Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs
NYC Parks, Forestry
NYC Parks, Freshkills Park
NYC Parks, Greenbelt Native Plant Center
NYC Parks, Stewardship
NYCEM, Emergency Management Department
NYCPS, Community School District 13
NYCPS, DIAL Division of Inclusive and Accessible Learning
NYCPS, Office of Multilingual Learners
PEU, Public Engagement Unit; HRA

 


 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Are You an NYC Service Alum? Learn more about upcoming events and available resources here.

Hoping to Host an AmeriCorps Member? If you're a City agency or NYC nonprofit looking to build capacity and engage more New Yorkers, learn how to host an NYC Service AmeriCorps member here.

 

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