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Save National Service, AmeriCorps
Starting points if you want to get involved saving National Service

• 5 Calls: Restore Americorps Funding For Disaster Relief (NCCC) - 5 Calls makes it easy for you to reach your members of Congress and make your voice heard
• 50501 Protest Events - 50 protests. 50 states. 1 movement
• Action Network - AmeriCorps - Action network is an open platform for responsible activism. There is an action for AmeriCorps
• Alt AmeriCorps on Bluesky - Independent "Resistance team to AmeriCorps cuts. Currently DOGED."
• AmeriCorps Impact by State - If you need to tell someone what AmeriCorps has accomplished in your state this might be useful.
• AmeriCorps on Reddit - Unofficial (unfiltered) subreddit to connect with people talking about AmeriCorps!
• AP News: Most of AmeriCorps staff members have been placed on leave after DOGE cuts - AP News article, 18 April 2025, on dismantling of AmeriCorps
• Common Cause: Find your Reps - Put in your address and find your representatives, how to contact them, bills they’ve introduced, committees they serve on, and political contributions they’ve received.
• Google News Alert - Latest News collected by Google on AmeriCorps
• List of Commissions by State - Your state commission might have ideas for how you can help locally.
• Voices for National Service - "urge leaders in Washington and around the country to expand national service, a vital resource for strengthening communities and the nation."
• Volunteering and Civic Life in America - AmeriCorps’ comprehensive research about civic engagement across the United States and over time. Partnership with Census. Useful to make the case with data.

Structure and Administration of National Service

• AmeriCorps - Independent Federal Agency that administers National Service Programs
• America's Service Commissions (ASC) - Created in the National and Community Service Trust Act in 1993, state and territorial service commissions are major partners of the AmeriCorps agency.
• Wikipedia: AmeriCorps - Articles on how AmeriCorps is structured

History

• Granger Academic Picture Archive - Historical Images from Granger
• LBJ Museum - 45 million pages of historical documents, 650,000 photos and 5,000 hours of recordings from President Johnson's political career
• National Service from 1910 - America's Service Commissions (ASC) created this tidy summary of key dates for National Service in the US
• VISTA Summary in 1967 - Univ. of North Texas Digital Archives of a Congressional Research Summary by Berla, Nancy February 8, 1967.
• VISTA: Gadfly in the Ghetto - Produced by the documentary television series New York Illustrated, presents the story of several VISTA members working in New York City as they struggle with the extreme poverty around them.
• Voices of VISTA at Discogs - No Audio, but list of episodes sponsored by OEO about VISTA with interesting images
• Voices of VISTA Radio Series 1965 - Radio Echoes offers the audio of Episode 2 with Woody Allen