Site Placement Criteria
In order to qualify as an appropriate project under the Capacity Building Focus
Area in the Compact
Service Corps AmeriCorps Program, the Member must work
with local nonprofit organizations on development of infrastructure to increase
and improve the organization’s programs and services provided to communities to
reach a greater number of beneficiaries, to become more efficient in operations,
and to leverage additional resources. As well, a major component of the project
must include recruitment, training and/or management of volunteers. This can
include new recruitment of community volunteers, training of existing volunteers
and management of new and recurring volunteers at the host site.
CSC Members focusing on capacity building for their term of service must
complete
their hours at a nonprofit organization focused on one of the
following strategic
priority areas:
• Education –
improving academic outcomes for K-12 youth, particularly those in low-performing
schools; help children prepare for school, perform at grade level and graduate
from high school ready for college, work and life.
• Healthy Futures –
meeting health needs within a community including access to care, aging in place
and addressing childhood obesity. Access to care may include acquiring health
insurance, culturally appropriate health care, transportation, language
translation, disease and disability prevention, health promotion initiatives,
health literacy and efforts to address health disparities.
• Veterans
and/or Military Families – providing health, education and economic
opportunity to veterans and military families, including the elimination of
veteran homelessness, educational programs for children in military families and
economic opportunities for military spouses and veterans.
• Disaster
Preparation & Response – focusing on disaster mitigation, preparedness,
response and recovery.
• Environmental Stewardship – protecting the
health and healthcare of humans and ecosystems by conserving natural resources
and restoring the nation’s air, water and land. May include energy efficiency,
renewable energy, restoring watersheds and aquatic ecosystems, improving at-risk
public use lands, restoring critical wildlife habitats, mitigating environmental
consequences of disasters and promoting environmental sustainability.
• Economic Opportunity – assisting individuals or families that are
homeless or at risk of homelessness; providing financial literacy; expanding
employment opportunities; redeveloping local areas struggling with
under-investment and other barriers to economic opportunity.