(Des Moines)– The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service voted Wednesday to award more than 3.1 million dollars in AmeriCorps grants and AmeriCorps Education Awards to support the placement of 467 AmeriCorps members within community-based organizations across Iowa.
Locally, the Northwest Iowa Youth AmeriCorps program has received a grant of 120,990-dollars to fund 30 AmeriCorps members who will provide support to nonprofit agencies in Clay, Dickinson, O’Brien and Buena Vista counties in the coming year.
The grant announcement comes during the first-ever AmeriCorps Week. Since 1994, more than four thousand Iowa residents have provided more than 5.2 million hours to local communities through AmeriCorps.
The Iowa Commission on Volunteer Service oversees AmeriCorps and other volunteer and service programs for the state.
