Join the LiteracyCorps

AmeriCorps is an umbrella term that refers to programs that are designed by the Corporation of National and Community Service Programs and the Members who serve through them. AmeriCorps will provide Members with full-time service experience, a living allowance, and an educational award from the National Service Trust Fund. Although each AmeriCorps Program has its own specific focus designed to provide service, they all are united by four common goals:

1. Getting Things Done through direct and demonstrable service that meets communities educational, public safety, human, and environmental needs.

2. Strengthening Communities by bringing together Americans of all ages and backgrounds in the common effort to improve our communities.

3. Encouraging Responsibility by encouraging Members to explore and exercise their responsibilities toward their communities, their families, and themselves.

4. Expanding Opportunity by enhancing Members’ educational opportunities, job experience, and life skills.

LMS’s LiteracyCorps is made up of 33 AmeriCorps members who provide programmatic support, including direct literacy interventions, to Literacy Mid-South’s programs and community partners throughout the city of Memphis. This effort is part of a wider community effort to saturate “literacy zones” with resources focused on whole family literacy. LiteracyCorps will be responsible for providing equitable access to high-quality literacy interventions in historically under-resourced communities. LiteracyCorps is aligned to the AmeriCorps focus areas of efforts to help local communities recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and K-3 Reading Success.

LiteracyCorps members receive valuable training on the importance of literacy, the mechanics of reading, and the effective interventions that empower families. Members are afforded the opportunity to build Memphians' literacy by supporting elementary out-of-school time programs or helping adults improve their English skills.

You can find out more about AmeriCorps here.

Meet our current AmeriCorps members here. 
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