Funding Success

If you know an organization that might be interested in this opportunity, could you please forward this to them?

Option 1: AmeriCorps Subgrant Site (only Massachusetts, Los Angeles & Chicago)
TechMission Corps is now making an AmeriCorps sub-grant site application available for programs serving at-risk youth in Massachusetts, Los Angeles & Chicago. These grants will provide funding for full-time AmeriCorps members (including a stipend of $11,400, health insurance and a $4,725 educational award).

AmeriCorps is often called the “domestic Peace Corps” or the “urban Peace Corps”, and two popular AmeriCorps programs are City Year and Teach for America. TechMission Corps is a faith-based AmeriCorps program focused on providing interns to programs serving at-risk youth.

AmeriCorps members can serve as full-time interns for urban youth ministries.  Sites can either do their own recruiting of the intern to serve as an AmeriCorps member or receive interns recruited through TechMission. Last year TechMission Corps had over 500 applicants for 60 full-time intern positions.  Next year, we will have over 80 full-time positions.

To qualify for the grant sites must meet the following criteria (with no exceptions):
1. Site must be in Massachusetts or in the Los Angeles or Chicago metropolitan areas
2. Site must have and existing after-school or youth program that primarily serves low-income youth.
3. Site must have 501(c)(3) nonprofit status (including churches with 501(c)(3) status).
4. Site must employ at least one full-time staff member who could supervise a TechMission Corps intern.

If your site meets this criteria, you can fill out a grant application at:
http://www.techmissioncorps.org/cms/tmc/siteapplication

The grant application deadline in June 30. We anticipate that grantees will be selected during Summer, 2010, with the positions starting as soon as September, 2009.  If your site plans to apply, please reply to this E-mail just notifying us of your intent to apply.  If you have any questions, you can call me at 617-282-9798 x121.

Option 2. City Vision Internship Site (any ministry serving at-risk communities in the USA or Canada)

Find out more information and follow the instructions at: http://www.cityvision.edu/cms/cv/site-application Call Theresa at 816-960-2008 or tmcloyd@cityvision.edu with questions on Option 2

Angenette (Angie) Crume

TechMission Corps Assistant Director

angie@techmission.org