CU Service Learning - AmeriCorps

AMERICORPS

If you are involved in the following service activities, you may be eligible for a service scholarship:
• Tutoring/ mentoring K-12
• Community-based service addressing human needs
• Community work study position in a local service agency
• Participating in service or service-learning activities
Note: Financial need is NOT a consideration for this scholarship

How it works:
• Students engage in service activities and report time and progress to a sponsor
• The hours accumulate over the course of 12 months, September 1 to August 31, 2003, 2004
• At the end of the service, students exit the program and receive the scholarship
• There are three scholarships amounts, correlating to three different service terms:
300 hours (over 12 consecutive months) = $1,000
450 hours (over 12 consecutive months) = $ 1,250
900 hours (over 24 consecutive months) = $2,363

Benefits beyond the education award:
• Leadership training
• Job experience and skills
• Civic education
• Resume booster
• Can be combined with work-study
• No student loan payments while you are serving

What is an education award?
• The voucher is not cash or a check. It can only be paid to a qualified institution of learning for one of the following:
• Repay qualified student loans
• Pay current tuition
• Save for future educational expenses

What counts as service toward the member contract?
Here are just a few examples of what current and past AmeriCorps members engaged in:
• Tutoring
• Nursing
• Emergency relief efforts
• Community outreach

What doesn’t count toward service (although you are free to engage in on your own time):
• Political activities (lobbying, partisan political activities, voter registration, protests)
• Religious affairs (instruction or worship services, preaching, proselytizing)
• Union activities
• For-profit business
• Unsafe activities (whether to yourself or others)
• Employee displacement activities (providing services that were formerly done by a paid employee)
• Fundraising (exceptions exist; contact the program office with questions)

For more information, contact the AmeriCorps program at CU at 303-492-7718 or acorps@colorado.edu.

General information on the national AmeriCorps program:
www.americorps.org

The Corporation for National and Community Service, who administer the AmeriCorps program website:
www.nationalservice.org

If you have completed your service and would like to know if your award has been processed or your award balance,visit www.americorps.gov, under For Individuals click Americorps Online Payment System. You will need to set up an account for yourself.