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You've found us! The well renowned, attractive, financially strapped, but always punctual San Francisco Bay Area AmeriCorps Community. How 'bout we parse that mouthful out a bit, eh?


San Francisco Bay Area
 
 
We try to be an inclusive group. San Francisco, East Bay, North Bay, South Bay--we're all here. If you could conceivably drive down to the San Francisco Bay for a foggy afternoon (or foggier evening), you're with us. Click the map to see that concept illustrated a little better.
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AmeriCorps

All our members are full and part-time volunteers who fight poverty and strengthen their communities. If your program is sponsored by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), then you're definitely with us. AmeriCorps State and National, VISTA, Teach for America, Public Allies, City Year, Learn and Serve America...the list goes on. We've been known to welcome non-CNCS volunteers as well--this means you Jesuit Volunteer Corps (and others too)! 

So does this mean that we are officially affiliated with these programs? No, no, no, yesNO. We are an unaffiliated community of volunteers. Still curious about the difference between these volunteer programs? See What We Do.

Community
 
We're a big 'ol community. In the last year, more than 2300 AmeriCorps volunteers served in the Bay Area (don't believe us? Check out the Official Reports). That's more than 2300 people with a common shared interest: ending poverty and strengthening communities in the Bay Area. Lots of us are young, recent college graduates, who came from out of town to serve our Bay Area community. In general, AmeriCorps members sign up for one year of full-time volunteer work, living on a poverty-level living allowance* while working in their communities. So, we're a community of like-minded, similarly situated people working together toward the same goals. Pretty rockin', eh?

But Why Create This Group? 

  1. Communication + Collaboration = More Effective Volunteers. This complex equation puts succinctly what the rest of this paragraph mangles with long winded sentences, poor grammar, and wannabe clever meta jokes. Each of us is working to end some cause of poverty in the Bay Area. Most of us are confronting the same issues and trying to solve to the same problems. This community is an ammunition dump in the War on Poverty (ok, fine, we'll stop with the analogy). SFBay AmeriCorps is a resource. I don't know what I'm doing, but the 2300 of us can figure it out. And we can help you figure it out too. Help us all and just ask.

  2. No Social Contacts = Sad, Possibly Homeless Volunteers. How did new AmeriCorps signups find housing in the Bay Area before this group? With a $900 monthly income, the options were few and far between. Enter SFBay AmeriCorps. Now new signups plug directly into the AmeriCorps community before they arrive. They find roommates among AmeriCorps volunteers. They find housing and home supplies from AmeriCorps Alumni and other kind-hearted Bay Area residents. As important, they plug into the social benefits of the Community. They go hiking, see a movie, organize a poker game, and become card-carrying members.

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*The subsistence is roughly $900 per month for full-time volunteers (well below the cutoff for Food Stamps, for example). AmeriCorps is a federally financed program, so these are your tax dollars hard at work. Don't worry, this is no "Bridge to Nowhere" boondoggle. You're getting college graduate labor put to ending poverty in your community for pennies on the dollar. What a steal! 
 

AmeriCorps Door

Members get to use the CorpsBoard, Calendar, and membership card.

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