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There are many AmeriCorps programs in Arkansas.
Click on any of the links below to learn more about the
programs.
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AmeriCorps*State
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Alternative
Classroom Experience
Arkansas
Reads
AmeriCorps Promise
Fellows
Arkansas HIPPYCorps
Program
Garvan
Woodland Gardens
Lonoke School District
Mid
Delta Community Consortium ADRDN AmeriCorps Project
Quality of Life Council
Rogers
Public Schools
SEARK
Arkansas Smart Start
SEARK
Arkansas Future Teacher Initiative
Winthrop
Rockefeller Center
Alternative Classroom
Experience
Location:
Little Rock
Project Title: Alternative Classroom Experience
Contact: Binky Martin-Tollette
Address: 5512 Ferndale Cutoff
Little Rock, AR 72223
Phone: (501) 821-3714 Fax: (501) 821-2629
E-Mail:
binky@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.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 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: 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.
Have 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:
Rachel Green
Address:
PO Box 22240
Hot
Springs, AR 71903
Phone:
(501) 262-9616 (Toll free: 1-800-366-4664) Fax:
(501) 262-9612
Email:
rgreen@garvangardens.org
Type:
Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time: Y
Part-time: Y
Description:
AmeriCorps
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.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: AmeriCorps 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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Quality of Life
Councils
Location: Faulkner County
Project Title: Quality of Life Council
Contact: Jim Rhodes
Address: 1301 North Museum Road
Conway, AR 72032
Phone: (501)
470-6640 Fax: (501) 329-2018
Email:
jim@qualityoflifecouncil.org
Type: Urban: N Rural: Y Full-time:
Y
Part-time: Y
Description: The Quality of Life Council
program in Conway, Arkansas, places AmeriCorps members
at agencies to serve the needs of the homeless and
foster children in Faulkner County. Five members conduct
volunteer recruitment activities exclusively while the
other members provide case management services for the
identified populations.
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 members include
acting 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, 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
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:
Leslie Boyle
Address:
#1 Rockefeller Drive
Morrilton
,
AR
72110
Phone: (501) 727-6234 Fax: (501) 727-5242
Email:
lboyle@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
Melissa Douglas
1230
W Peachtree St N W
Atlanta,
GA 30309-3447
Phone:
(404) 487-5803 Fax: (404) 487-5789
Email:
mdouglas@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
Habitat for Humanity
Julie Goss
3805 W. 12th Street
Little
Rock, AR 72204
Phone: (501) 370-1580
Email:
juli.habitat@sbcglobal.net
Arkansas
Service Commission
E-mail addresses:
marybea.gross@arkansas.gov
beverly.moody@arkansas.gov
ida.collier@arkansas.gov
jackie.stubblefield@arkansas.gov
marilyn.henderson@arkansas.gov
sara.bowman@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 |
