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Location: Little Rock
Project Title: Alternative Classroom Experience
Contact: Dre Tollette
Address: 5512 Ferndale Cutoff
Little Rock, AR 72223
Phone: (501) 821-3714 Fax: (501) 821-2629
E-Mail: dre@pfeifercamp.com
Type:Urban:Y Rural:Y Full-time:Y Part-time:N
Description: Kiwanis Activities, Inc. (Little Rock, Pulaski County) is located at Camp Pfeifer. Ten full-time AmeriCorps members provide mentoring, tutoring, self-esteem enhancement, team building and other services to more than 200 children in a residential school setting.
Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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AmeriCorps Promise Fellows

Location: 12 Communities in Arkansas
Project Title: Arkansas’ Promise
Contact: Jackie Stubblefield
Address: P. O. Box 1437 Slot S230
Little Rock AR 72203
Phone: (501) 682-7540 Fax: (501) 682-1623
E-Mail: jackie.stubblefield@arkansas.gov
Type: Urban:Y Rural:Y Full-time:Y Part-time:N
Description: AmeriCorps Promise Fellows are full-time members placed in 12 communities around the state to build capacity and infrastructure to provide five fundamental resources for children and youth; an ongoing relationship with a caring adult, safe places to learn and grow, marketable skills through effective education, a healthy start, and an opportunity to give back.
Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements

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Arkansas HIPPYCorps Program

Location: Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Project Title: Arkansas HIPPYCorps Program
Contact: Barbara Gilkey
Address: 800 Marshall Street, Slot 651, Little Rock AR 72202
Phone: (501) 364-3671 Fax: (501) 364-2225
E-Mail: Gilkeybj@archildrens.org
Type: Urban:N Rural:Y Full-time:Y Part-time:Y
Description: Thirteen full-time and 25 half-time AmeriCorps Members assist families and communities by developing the educational achievement of young children through a comprehensive community and parent empowerment program.
Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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Arkansas Reads

Location: Little Rock

Project Title: Arkansas Reads

Contact: Marie Bruno

Address: 3905 Cooperative Way Suite D

Little Rock, AR 72209

Phone: (501) 907-2490 Fax: (501) 907-2492

Email: marie@arkansasliteracy.org

Type: Urban: Y Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: N

Description: Arkansas Literacy Councils (ALC), Inc. has thirteen full-time and 14 half-time AmeriCorps members that tutor adults with inadequate literacy skills and persons who speak English as a second language. The program also recruits literacy volunteers.

Qualification: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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Garvan Woodland Gardens

Location: Hot Springs

Project Title: Garvan Woodland Gardens Environmental Education/Development

Contact: Marianne Layne

Address: PO Box 22240

Hot Springs, AR 71903

Phone: (501) 262-9616 (Toll free: 1-800-366-4664) Fax: (501) 262-9612

Email: mlayne@garvangardens.org

Type: Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: Y

Description: Thirteen half-time, four quarter-time and five minimum-time members are developing a children's garden and accessible trails in a woodland garden on Lake Hamilton near Hot Springs National Park. In addition, they conduct invasive weed control and recruit and manage volunteers. In the area of homeland security, they develop skills in fighting forest fires and are available to assist volunteer and other fire fighting agencies as needed.

Qualification: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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Mid Delta Community Consortium

Location: Delta Region

Project Title: ADRDN AmeriCorps Project

Contact: Anna Huff

Address: PO Box 2524

West Helena, AR 72390

Phone: (870) 572-5518 Fax: (870) 572-5567

Email: huffannam@uams.edu

Type: Urban: Y Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: Y

Description: The Mid-Delta Community Consortium places AmeriCorps members in the Mississippi River Delta Region of the state. One half-time and 12 full-time members meet with individuals selected because of age, income and other indicators that place them at risk of not receiving adequate health care. Members assess their needs, help them complete applications for assistance they require and monitor their use of that assistance. Members recruit volunteers to improve the delivery of health care services to service recipients.

Qualification: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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Lonoke School District

Location: Lonoke School District
Project Title: Lonoke School District AmeriCorps Program
Contact: Karen Gibbs
Address: 401 West Holly Street, Lonoke, AR 72086
Phone: (501) 676-3839 Fax: (501) 676-3726
Email: karen.gibbs@lonoke.k12.ar.us
Type: Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: Y
Description: Ten full-time members tutor children in grades Pre-K to 2 to improve reading and math skills.
Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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Rogers Public Schools

Location: Rogers and Springdale
Project Title: AmeriCorps Family Outreach
Contact: Mike Hummel
Address: 220 South Fifth Street
               Rogers, AR 72756
Phone:  (479) 631-3559   Fax: (479) 631-3552
Email: mhummel@tillery.k12.ar.us
Type: Urban: Y Rural: Y   Full-time: Y    Part-time: N
Description: Activities of the 30 full-time and six half-time members include working as a parent liaison to provide translation/communication services and advising parents of secondary students about school attendance patterns. In addition members recruit and train volunteers from the communities they serve in order to increase their participation in the life of their new community and to address needs in the schools their children attend.
Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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SEARK Arkansas Smart Start AmeriCorps Program

Location: seven counties in Southeast Arkansas

Project Title: Arkansas Smart Start AmeriCorps Program

Contact: Jenny Satterlee

Address: 1022 Scogin Drive

Monticello , AR 71655

Phone: (870) 367-4825 Fax: (870) 367-9877

Email: jenny.satterlee@se2.k12.ar.us

Type: Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: Y

Description: under the direction of mentor-teachers, 132 half-time members provide a minimum of 10 hours per week of one-on-one and small group tutoring services to more than 852 students in grades K-4 and specialized tutoring for an additional 50 ESL students to improve literacy and math skills. Members also conduct parent involvement nights at their schools and design signature service projects. They recruit volunteers for these projects and high school students to help tutor younger children in K-4 after school programs.

Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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SEARK Arkansas Future Teacher Initiative

Location: Statewide

Project Title: Arkansas Future Teacher Initiative

Contact: Jenny Satterlee

Address: 12022 Scogin Drive

Monticello, AR 71655

Phone: (870) 367-4825 Fax: (870) 367-9877

Email: jenny.satterlee@se2.k12.ar.us

Type: Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: Y

Description: Under the direction of mentor-teachers, the 60 half

time members provide a minimum of 10 hours per week of one-on-one and

small group tutoring services to more than 900 students in grades Pre-K to

12 to improve literacy and math skills. Members also conduct parent

involvement nights at their schools and design signature service projects.

They recruit volunteers for these projects and high school students to help

tutor younger children in lower grades.

Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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Winthrop Rockefeller Center

Location: Conway County

Project Title: Winthrop Rockefeller Center Environmental Project

Contact: Jolie Busby

Address: #1 Rockefeller Drive

Morrilton , AR 72110

Phone: (501) 727-6234 Fax: (501) 727-5242

Email: jbusby@uawri.org

Type: Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time: Y Part-time: Y

Description: Four full-time, 11 half-time, six quarter-time and 40 minimum time members help to construct an educational farmstead with demonstration gardens, orchards, vineyards, barns and pens to help residents of Conway and Perry Counties learn how to supplement their income by making productive the small plots of land where they live. Members also recruit volunteers to help with the effort.

Qualifications: Contact the program for specific requirements.

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AmeriCorps*National Program

Student Conservation Association

Kate Hagner

PO Box 550

Charlestown, NH 03603

Phone: (603) 543-1700 Fax: (603) 543-1828

Email: khagner@thesca.org or www.sca-inc.org

Delta Service Corps/Good Neighbor Center

Shay Evans-Fisher

PO Box 2990

West Memphis, AR 72303

Email: ardsc@sbcglobal.net

Heifer Project International /CNVS

Keisha Patterson, Volunteer Manager

55 Heifer Road

Perryville, AR 72126

Phone: (501) 889-5124 ext. 3645

Email: keisha.patterson@heifer.org or ranchovol@heifer.org

Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Marie Netto

1230 W Peachtree St N W

Atlanta, GA 30309-3447

Phone: (404) 487-5803 Fax: (404) 487-5789

Email: mnetto@bgca.org or www.bgca.org

Safe/AFOP

Mr. Clevon Young

300 S. Spring Street Ste. 800

Little Rock, AR 72201-2424

Phone: (501) 374-1103 Fax: (501) 374-1413

Email: cyoung@arhdc.org

Teach for America

Bessie Hunt

PO Box 2544

West Helena, AR 72390

Phone: (870) 338-6600 Fax: (870) 338-7330

Email: bhunt@teachforamerica.org

City Year Little Rock

Shannon Butler

610 Pres Clinton Ave, Ste 300

Little Rock, AR 72201

Phone: (501) 707-1400

Email: sbutler@cityyear.org

VISTA & Senior Programs

Opal Sims

Corporation for National and Community Service

700 West Capitol Room 2506

Little Rock, AR 72201

Phone: (501)324-5234 Fax: (501) 324-6949

Email: osims@cns.gov

Arkansas Service Commission

E-mail addresses:

al.schneider@arkansas.gov

beverly.moody@arkansas.gov

ida.collier@arkansas.gov

jackie.stubblefield@arkansas.gov

marilyn.henderson@arkansas.gov

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Visit the Corporation for National and Community Service website.

The mission of the Division of Volunteerism (DOV) is to promote and support national service and volunteering in Arkansas. The division, housed with the Department of Human Services, has offered training, technical assistance, and information to all Arkansans since 1974.

Please send your comments, suggestions or questions to the
DHS Division of Volunteerism.

Arkansas Department of Human Services
Division of Volunteerism
Donaghey Plaza South
P.O. Box 1437 Slot S230
Little Rock, AR 72203-1437
(501) 682-7540 or 1-800-482-5850 Ext. 2-7540