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Join AmeriCorps

Our AmeriCorps Louisiana network spans every region of the state. It is easy for AmeriCorps members to serve close to home or school. AmeriCorps members serve directly with nonprofits to help them address critical needs in one or more of AmeriCorps' six key focus areas: Disaster Services, Economic Opportunity, Education, Environmental Stewardship, Healthy Futures, and/or Veterans and Military Families.

 

Click on a region of the map to see where you can serve.

Central Region South/Southwest Region Northwest Region Northeast Region Greater New Orleans Area Southeast/North Shore Region Greater Capital Region
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Northwest Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

  1. Build healthy future and lead environmental stewardship

  2. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.
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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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ShreveCorps
Bossier and Caddo parishes
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AmeriCorps members cultivate community gardens at schools and community centers in food desert neighborhoods in Shreveport. Members also participate in Naomi's Urban Farm, a hunger and poverty alleviation program.

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Northeast Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

  1. Work with students to improve their educational and behavioral outcomes through after-school programming
  2. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of North Louisiana
Bienville, Claiborne, Jackson, Lincoln, Morehouse, Ouachita, and Union parishes
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AmeriCorps members improve educational and behavioral outcomes of students in low-achieving elementary and middle schools by assisting in preparation for and prospects for success in post-secondary education institutions for economically disadvantaged students in the North Louisiana area.

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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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Synergy, Education and Environment of West Monroe
Ouachita Parish
City of West Monroe
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AmeriCorps members provide after-school homework assistance and enrichment activities to students in grades 1-3 during the school year and implement a summer youth program at the West Monroe Community Center.

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Central Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

  1. Address food insecurity in 11 parishes through the Mobile Pantry Program
  2. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.
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Food Bank of Central Louisiana
Allen, Avoyelles, Catahoula, Concordia, Grant, LaSalle, Natchitoches, Rapides, Sabine, Vernon, and Winn parishes
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AmeriCorps members support the Food Bank of Central Louisiana's Mobile Pantry Program, providing food assistance and referral services to people in need in rural and underserved communities across Central Louisiana.

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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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Greater Capital Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

  1. Lead environmental stewardship and assist after a disaster
  2. Serve in public schools helping students reach their full potential
  3. Lead projects to revitalize homes and neighborhoods
  4. Build capacity for nonprofits to serve local children, families, and communities
  5. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.
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City Year Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge parish
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AmeriCorps members provide one-on-one support to students in Baton Rouge public schools. Members help students improve their attendance, lead school-wide events, provide after-school programming, and lead individual and small group tutoring sessions for students in Math and English Language Arts.

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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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Serve Louisiana
East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Lafayette, and Orleans parishes
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AmeriCorps members provide capacity-building services in South Louisiana to increase the effectiveness of their partner organizations that serve local children, families, and communities in Baton Rouge,  New Orleans, and Lafayette.

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Teach for America
Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard parishes
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AmeriCorps members are full-time teachers who promote academic growth for students, engage as volunteer leaders within their schools and communities, and engage parents and community members as volunteers.

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Greater New Orleans Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

  1. Serve in public schools helping students reach their full potential
  2. Lead projects to revitalize homes and neighborhoods
  3. Build career pathways, strengthen communities, and give kids a mentor
  4. Build capacity for nonprofits to serve local children, families, and communities
  5. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.
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City Year New Orleans
Orleans parish
New Orleans
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AmeriCorps members provide in-class and after-school support to academically challenged students in New Orleans, giving them the extra resources they need to get back on track in school.

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Coach Across America
Orleans parish
New Orleans
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AmeriCorps members serve as coaches in the communities that need them most. They mentor, inspire confidence, and help kids develop the leadership skills that last a lifetime.

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For Providers by Providers
Orleans parish
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The Early Childhood Teacher Corps (ECTC), an AmeriCorps program operating under For Providers By Providers, mobilizes individuals interest in service opportunities to revive and strengthen early childhood environments for Louisiana's youngest youth ages 0-5 years.

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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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Rebuilding Together New Orleans
Orleans and Terrebonne parishes
New Orleans
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AmeriCorps members serve our homeowners by supporting them throughout the service application process and providing them with free, critical home repairs. The AmeriCorps program also builds civic engagement and career pathways for opportunity youth throughout New Orleans.

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Serve Louisiana
East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Lafayette, and Orleans parishes
New Orleans
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AmeriCorps members provide capacity-building services in South Louisiana to increase the effectiveness of their partner organizations that serve local children, families, and communities in Baton Rouge,  New Orleans, and Lafayette.

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Teach for America
Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Jefferson, Orleans, Pointe Coupee, St. Bernard parishes
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AmeriCorps members are full-time teachers who promote academic growth for students, engage as volunteer leaders within their schools and communities, and engage parents and community members as volunteers.

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Southeast Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

 

         1. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.

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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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Logo for Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs with those words, the LDVA abbreviation, and a red and blue medal
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South / Southwest Region

In this region, AmeriCorps members:

  1. Work with students to improve their academic engagement and knowledge of healthy living through after-school programming
  2. University of Louisiana at Lafayette students build homes, tutor children after school, and assist with ongoing environmental stewardship on and around campus
  3. Assist military veterans and their families on higher education campuses.
  4. Build capacity for nonprofits to serve local children, families, and communities
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Boys & Girls Club of Acadiana
Calcasieu, Iberia, Lafayette, Natchitoches, St. Landry, and Vermilion parishes
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AmeriCorps members provide programming and activities to improve academic engagement or social-emotional skills and address childhood obesity to at-risk youth through education-based, health-related activities and mentoring during the school year and summer months.

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LAVetCorps
Several parishes and colleges and universities across this region
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AmeriCorps members serve as peer mentors to veterans and military families in colleges and universities across Louisiana. Members connect veterans to Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs veterans' assistance programs and training faculty and connect members to LDVA staff and community members.

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Logo for Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs with those words, the LDVA abbreviation, and a red and blue medal
Serve Louisiana
East Baton Rouge, Jefferson, Lafayette, and Orleans parishes
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AmeriCorps members provide capacity-building services in South Louisiana to increase the effectiveness of their partner organizations that serve local children, families, and communities in Baton Rouge,  New Orleans, and Lafayette.

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University of Louisiana at Lafayette AmeriCorps
Lafayette parish
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AmeriCorps members engage in environmental stewardship through native plant restoration, invasive species removal, and other green infrastructure projects and engage with the community on the importance of environmental sustainability.

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