LINKS
LINKS Members
LINKS provides part-time service opportunities in environment, education, public safety, and other human needs. Positions may be 300, 450, 675, 900, or 1700 hours in length, and typically take place within a year or less. LINKS members are at least 17 years of age (no upper age limit) and serve at least 25 hours per month with a LINKS partner school, non-profit, or government agency. Members earn an education award of $1,000 to $4,725 upon completion of their term of service. Positions are starting now!
LINKS Sponsors
Does your organization need an AmeriCorps member part-time, full-time - for just a few months, or up to a year? Want someone to take on that great back-burner project you've had to put off? Think LINKS! LINKS members can serve 300, 450, 675, 900, or 1700 hours on a project of your design. Proposals are accepted each summer (see Announcements below, for details) for positions starting anytime between September 1 and July 31. Start dates are flexible, depending on your time line. Projects must focus on the environment, education, public safety, or other human needs.
Announcements
AmeriCorps Week
Mayor Royce Pollard declared May 9th through May 16th “AmeriCorps Week” at the Vancouver City Council Meeting on May 11th. Donna Garton and Judith Guzman Montes accepted the proclamation on behalf of the Northwest Service Academy/LINKS Program and the Washington Reading Corps.
Garton and Montes shared stories of their experiences serving in AmeriCorps with the mayor and the city council.
“My experience was personally gratifying and very valuable to those I teach,” said Garton, who serves as a Citizenship Instructor with Lutheran Community Services and specializes in helping Russian-speaking refugees. “It is a special joy to work with refugees who are preparing for citizenship.” Since February, five of Garton’s students have become citizens.
Montes works with the ESD 112 Parents as Teachers Program which provides early literacy education for children before they go to kindergarten by coordinating Read-And-Play programs at local elementary schools in cooperation with the Fort Vancouver Public Library. “The program helps kids build a love for books at an early age,” said Montes.
AmeriCorps is a national service program engaging citizens age 17 and up in service projects designed to meet critical community needs. Assignments may be full-time or part-time. Some provide benefits such as a living allowance and health insurance. All members are eligible to earn an education award upon completion of service. To learn more about AmeriCorps, visit http://www.americorps.gov. | View Proclamation Document
2009-2010 RFP Process
The RFP process for the 2009-2010 program year (positions starting Sept. 1, 2009 thru July 31, 2010) is over. The RFP for the 2010-2011 program year (positions starting Sept. 1, 2011 thru July 31, 2012) will be out in summer 2010. If you would like to be placed on our mailing list, please email Erika Johnson at erika.johnson@esd112.org.