AmeriCorps in Missouri

Partnership for Youth, Inc., doing business as AmeriCorps St. Louis, will have 46 full-time AmeriCorps Members per year on its Emergency Response Team who will provide disaster services through mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery interventions across communities within Missouri and, when requested, across the country; provide environmental stewardship service interventions to local, state, and federal public lands in Missouri to benefit the conservation and ecological vitality of natural areas; and will obtain industry-level trainings and credentials to support future careers in emergency management and conservation with local, state, federal and nonprofit partners regionally and nationally. At the end of their first program year, AmeriCorps Member will be responsible for providing disaster assistance to 3,000 individuals; will enhance the environmental quality and user access of 13,000 acres of public lands, and 100% of Corps members will obtain industry-recognized credentials and 100% will obtain work-readiness skills.

Service Area: St. Louis City, State of Missouri, and other disaster impacted states
Grant Amount: $1,150,000
Local Match: $1,927,700

City Year Kansas City proposes to have 50 AmeriCorps members who will provide full-day education services to students in eight public schools in Kansas City, Missouri. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for mentoring 440 students, of which 92 will improve literacy skills, 68 will improve math skills, and 220 will develop social-emotional skills. In addition, the AmeriCorps members will leverage 240 volunteers who will be engaged in projects in our schools and on national days of service.

Service Area: Kansas City
Grant Amount: $1,250,000
Local Match: $1,150,000

Jumpstart Missouri will have 165 AmeriCorps members who will deliver its evidence-based early education program in Kansas City and Columbia. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for increasing the school readiness of 413 children from under-resourced communities through a curriculum designed to improve key language, literacy, and social-emotional skills. In addition, the AmeriCorps members will leverage an additional 175 volunteers who will be engaged in service projects that benefit preschool children and their families in the same communities.

Service Area: Columbia and Kansas City
Grant Amount: $499,999
Local Match: $499,999

The Kansas City Public Library proposes to have 13 AmeriCorps Members who will serve as Digital Corps members providing direct service for adult digital inclusion learners in Jackson County, Missouri. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps Members will be responsible for the following outcome: 60% of beneficiaries will self-report that they feel more knowledgeable and/or confident about digital resources measured using the Public Library Association’s Project Outcomes Survey. In addition, the AmeriCorps members will leverage 30 volunteers who will be engaged in community outreach and Library services support.

Service Area: Jackson County
Grant Amount: $123,747
Local Match: $98,657

The Literacy Volunteers of America- Laclede Literacy Council proposes to have 17 AmeriCorps Members (10.4 MSY) who will provide tutoring services for economically disadvantaged adults and out-of-school youth aged 16 and over who need to increase their skills in literacy or math in order to increase their employability in Laclede, Camden, Pulaski and Dallas Counties in Missouri or serve at the elementary school in Lebanon Missouri serving 4th and 5th graders who are below grade level in reading or math. At the end of this program year the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for a minimum of 180 beneficiaries, 150 who will benefit from the tutoring by showing an increase in literacy or math skills in our adult program and 100 beneficiaries in our youth program, 80 of which will show increase in percentage score, on the I Ready exam. In addition, the AmeriCorps Members will leverage 65 volunteers who will be engaged in tutoring service.

Service Area: Laclede County: Conway, Dove, Eldridge, Lebanon, Phillipsburg, Richland, Stoutland
Grant Amount: $249,398
Local Match: $155,136

Mission: St. Louis (M:STL) proposes to have 27 AmeriCorps Members who will serve in Beyond School by strengthening partnerships with student families and community partners and directly serving youth in partner schools: St. Louis Language Immersion School (SLLIS), Lafayette Preparatory Academy (LPA), and Kairos Academies (Kairos). At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps Members will be responsible for improving the academic performance of 160 K-8th graders in need of learning recovery. In addition, the AmeriCorps Members will leverage an additional 105 leveraged volunteers who will be engaged in academic mentoring services.

Service Area: St. Louis
Grant Amount: $510,249
Local Match: $438,796

The University of Missouri Kansas City (UMKC) will recruit 14 AmeriCorps members to implement interventions improving 4 disaster phases: Mitigation, Preparation, Response, and Recovery for community dwelling older adults (CDOA) in three cities/counties in Missouri: Kansas City, Independence, and Clay County. At the end of the second program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for improvement in the healthy futures of community dwelling older adults in these cities. This program allows the older adult population the opportunity to improve health, feel safe if future disasters occur, and then age-in-place with the knowledge that they are in control in emergent situations.

Service Area: Kansas City
Grant Amount: $174,449
Local Match: $120,011

The University of Missouri- Kansas City (UMKC) Lift As You Climb program will have 24 AmeriCorps Members who will serve to assist with increasing college-going and persistence for students at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri. At the end of the first program year, students will experience ease of transition into the culture of academia, as well as an increase in class enrollment, sense of belonging, and awareness and utilization of support services. Moreover, students will plan to implement the knowledge learned in success workshops, and campus and community partners will increase their knowledge about services available for underrepresented students at UMKC.

Service Area: Kansas City
Grant Amount: $163,618
Local Match: $105,512

The Waynesville AmeriCorps Program will have 39 AmeriCorps members who will provide academic support through tutoring, mentoring, service-learning, and enrichment, with fitness and wellness support, to students of whom, are 73% military-affiliated, in the Waynesville, Saint Robert, and Fort Leonard Wood communities of Missouri. At the end of the first program year, the AmeriCorps members will be responsible for increasing the academic achievement of students by providing support through tutoring and mentoring programs in grades PreK-8. ACM will also be responsible for providing supplemental food assistance to reduce food insecurity for students in the Waynesville R-VI School District. The implementation of these programs will be done through the member and volunteer-supported tutoring services and mentoring programs offered both during the school day and within the after-school setting. In addition, the AmeriCorps members will leverage 1000 volunteers including but not limited to veterans and military service members and their families, who will be engaged in educational enrichment through an established reading and mentoring programs, and support improved nutrition for students by minimizing food insecurities and promoting healthy futures through work with the Waynesville R-VI School District SIAP program.

Service Area: Pulaski County
Grant Amount: $473,666
Local Match: $557,687