AmeriCorps NCCC

AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) strengthens communities and develops leaders through direct, team-based national and community service.

• About Us
  AmeriCorps NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps) is a unique, highly adventurous branch of AmeriCorps. Serving full-time on a team of 18- to 24-year-olds, members travel the country for 10 months performing a variety of intense, multi-week projects. In the traditional NCCC program, members might shelter disaster survivors, build houses, restore the environment, tutor children and more! In NCCC's FEMA Corps program, members support FEMA's disaster responders while gaining skills and connections that could give them an edge toward federal employment. Members receive their initial three weeks of training, and recharge between projects, at one of five NCCC campuses in Denver, CO, Sacramento, CA, Vicksburg, MS, or Vinton, IA. A specially trained Team Leader serves and resides with each team, supervising day and night.
  
  Program expenses are provided, to include transportation (no car required), housing, meals, health benefits, uniforms, job training and more. Members also receive $4,000 for living expenses and, most importantly, an education award worth more than $6,000 to pay student loans or future tuition. NCCC campuses provide assistance to members with writing competitive resumes, learning job interview skills and finding the next step in their education or career.
• Our Impact
  For more than two decades, AmeriCorps NCCC has assisted hundreds of nonprofits, schools and government organizations across the country with extra hands to meet their urgent short-term needs. NCCC teams have collectively refurbished 18,531 homes for disaster victims, constructed or renovated 12,400 miles of hiking trails, conducted 1,164 workshops on energy conservation, tutored 374,625 children and countless other accomplishments. Teams assisted devastated communities after Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, the September 11th attacks, Hurricane Harvey, Maria and Florence, and many more.
  
  FEMA Corps teams have responded to nearly every federally declared disaster since the program's inception in 2012. Teams have met with and registered thousands of survivors for assistance, identified housing resources and provided information to help communities prepare for the next disaster. When no disasters were occurring, teams helped rewrite federal and state plans to provide better disaster response, participated in disaster exercises, operated warehouses of response equipment and much more. Hundreds of FEMA Corps members, and counting, have been been hired by FEMA following their service.
  
  In either branch of NCCC, members perform a variety of service in several locations across the country. They often come away with a clearer understanding of what academic or career fields interest them, and new life skills, job skills and connections to help them pursue their dreams.