Last Friday, the Trump Administration / DOGE cut about 41% of the grant funding for our national service agency, AmeriCorps, which affected an estimated 1,031 organizations, and 32,465 AmeriCorps members and senior volunteers. The cuts affect programs in every state in the US. The map above shows the programs cut and where they were geographically located. These cuts come just a week after the Administration put most of the AmeriCorps staff on administrative leave.
That same Friday, I published a piece in Rolling Stone about the broader implications of dismantling AmeriCorps (the agency responsible for supporting our national and civic service), which talks about how losing the agency will affect, not only the federal workers who run the agency and the volunteers who serve with it; it will affect communities across the US.
“Our democracy is made up of reciprocal ties between and among all of us, and AmeriCorps strengthens these ties.
We will all feel the loss of AmeriCorps as extreme events come more frequently and hit with more severity, and our democracy will pay the price.”
Dana R Fisher 