Americorps
AmeriCorps has been defined as a domestic Peace Corps – improving community, changing lives.
Each year, AmeriCorps offers 75,000 opportunities for adults of all ages and backgrounds to serve through a network of partnerships with local and national nonprofit groups. Whether your service makes a community safer, gives a child a second chance, or helps protect the environment, you’ll be getting things done through AmeriCorps! AmeriCorps members address critical needs in communities all across America.
BMAC AmeriCorps works to address crucial needs throughout Walla Walla County. The local program is comprised of committed, talented individuals seeking to change community. We have several exciting projects to choose from: provide tutoring and behavioral support for academically and socially at-risk children and youth; youth and family advocacies; volunteer recruitment, and environmental education.
AmeriCorps members receive training, plan service projects, and recruit volunteers to help them carry out the projects. The service projects vary from picking up litter on an adopted section of highway to sorting food at the local food warehouse that later distributes it to the local emergency food pantries.
Click here to view the local AmeriCorps website. To learn more about the State and National Program, visit their website.
As the saying goes, “Everything old is new again.” We are happy to re-introduce a gleaning program into BMAC’s service area; the last one started in 1977.
Americorps VISTA volunteers, in partnership Rotary First Harvest, are working around the state to promote gleaning as a partial solution to food shortages and lack of fresh produce in food banks.
Walla Walla Community Harvest began in November of 2011 when Casi Christensen, an Americorps VISTA, came to BMAC. She spent the fall doing community outreach and education; she is now preparing for a full push toward harvest. To learn more or to become involved, click on the logo.
