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Without AmeriCorps Rural Communities Will Lose Essential Social Services
- In late April 2025, the federal government abruptly cut over 1,000 AmeriCorps grants nationwide, including programs in Colorado and Kentucky.
- These funding cuts followed actions by the Department of Government Efficiency and sparked a lawsuit by 24 states claiming the cuts usurp Congress's power of the purse.
- The cuts caused loss of nearly $400 million overall and forced programs like Montezuma School to Farm Project and Hindman Settlement School to face severe financial shortfalls.
- Montezuma's education director, Sorrell Redford, said the project pays $300 per AmeriCorps member and depends on them to grow 6,000 pounds of food this year, with an extra $5,300 monthly cost now needed to retain staff.
- If the lawsuit fails, these rural programs will stop immediately, risking essential social services and community resilience in areas lacking other resources.
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Without AmeriCorps rural communities will lose essential social services
Without AmeriCorps rural communities will lose essential social services On April 25, Sorrell Redford, education director for Montezuma School to Farm Project, heard that their AmeriCorps funding through Serve Colorado would run out following abrupt cuts from the federal government. The agency bought themselves a few extra days by cobbling together two weeks-worth of funds to help ease the transition and possibly, to tide them over until a court…
Without AmeriCorps rural communities will lose essential social services | News Channel 3-12
Without AmeriCorps rural communities will lose essential social services On April 25, Sorrell Redford, education director for Montezuma School to Farm Project, heard that their AmeriCorps funding through Serve Colorado would run out following abrupt cuts from the federal government. The agency bought themselves a few extra days by cobbling together two weeks-worth of funds to help ease the transition and possibly, to tide them over until a court…
DOGE cuts to AmeriCorps funding imperils programs serving Georgia communities
This story is part of Atlanta Civic Circle’s ongoing reporting from our Community Impact Survey, which is gathering firsthand accounts from people across metro Atlanta on how federal actions are affecting them. When Jessica Johnson, executive director of The Scholarship Academy, received an email in late April from Georgia Serves, she didn’t expect to be told to immediately shut down her AmeriCorps program. But that’s exactly what happened. Almo…
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