DES MOINES, Iowa (WOI) - In Iowa, 338 AmeriCorps members are now looking for new opportunities after their positions suddenly went away. AmeriCorps members help with everything from education to ...

Green Iowa AmeriCorps volunteers plant trees. A state panel has recommended eliminating Iowa’s Commission on Volunteer Service, also known as Volunteer Iowa. The 19-member commission appointed by the ...

CEDAR RAPIDS – Linn and Johnson counties are among nine Iowa sites selected for a new AmeriCorps health project. Ten Iowa AmeriCorps HealthCorps members will be recruited for placement in local public ...

Hundreds of AmeriCorps members in Iowa have been left scrambling for housing and jobs after the federal government abruptly terminated funding for the program. On this episode of River to River, ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (KCRG) - The Iowa Department of Education has received almost $500,000 in federal AmeriCorps funding. According to the Iowa Department of Education, the grant will fund the state’s ...

The author lives in Des Moines. Why AmeriCorps? That’s a question I got asked a lot when I graduated college 20 years ago and made the choice to serve my country as an AmeriCorps member. Why was I ...

Several nonprofits, including Iowa’s Bur Oak Land Trust, are suing the Trump administration for withholding AmeriCorps funding. A preliminary injunction ordered restoration of the funds, but the ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — Washington D.C. and 24 states are suing over the Trump administration’s $400 million funding cuts to AmeriCorps. Iowa is not one of the states suing, but local programs are being ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — Axing AmeriCorps, which has 1,500 people doing service work in Iowa this year, would hurt environmental efforts, literacy programs, health services and disaster relief, according to ...

AMES, Iowa – The Iowa AmeriCorps 4-H Outreach program has reopened the host site application for the 2021-22 grant year. “For the last two years, youth programming across the state halted. Now as ...

A 16-year-old Nevada nonprofit will continue serving free meals despite recently losing access to a grant-funded staffer. Nevada Food at First offers free meals on Monday and Thursday evenings.