Volunteer Louisiana manages a current portfolio of 1000 AmeriCorps members serving with 14 programs in 22 parishes. $3.8 million of federal funds are matched with $3.7 million from local communities.
Since 1994, Volunteer Louisiana has hosted 19,950 AmeriCorps members who have provided over 7 million hours of community service in education, disaster response, environmental stewardship, economic opportunity, and healthy futures.
100,000 AmeriCorps members have deployed to the Gulf Coast since 2005 to rebuild communities devastated by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, many of those in Louisiana.