AmeriCorps

AmeriCorps, founded in 1993, is launching the American Climate Corps (ACC), a workforce-training and service initiative that will ensure more young people have access to the skills-based training necessary for well-paying careers in the clean-energy and climate-resilience economy. The American Climate Corps will mobilize a new, diverse generation of more than 20,000 young Americans, putting them to work conserving and restoring our lands and waters, bolstering community resilience, deploying clean energy, implementing energy-efficient technologies, and advancing environmental justice, all while creating pathways to high-quality, good-paying clean-energy and climate-resilience jobs in the public and private sectors after they complete their paid training program. This award supports the ACC project.