AmeriCorps & Habitat OC
Change the world - one house at a time. Join AmeriCorps and work at Habitat OC.
Learn - Transform - Improve
Why Join AmeriCorps and Habitat OC?
Fight Poverty with Passion
AmeriCorps, a federal program, offers Americans an opportunity to improve local communities while learning new skills, meeting new people and earning money to pay for college.
Give and Take
AmeriCorps volunteers are essential to the success of Habitat OC. They support the mission and accept high levels of responsibility.
Give away:
- Sustainable community service projects
- Work on construction sites or in the office
- Compassion, enthusiasm and fresh perspectives
- Hard work, selflessness and time
Take away:
- Training and transferable skills
- Team building and leadership skills
- National and local participation
- Tangible, visible impact
- Friendship
- Self-respect
Living in "The OC"
It's no secret. Living here is expensive. AmeriCorps volunteers receive:
- Modest income
- Low cost housing whenever possible
- Health insurance for the individual
- Childcare cost reimbursement
- Personal leave and holidays
- Lots of love and appreciation.
Commitment and Advantages
Visit the official website at www.AmeriCorps.gov for details on minimum requirements and maximum benefits.
Habitat OC engages AmeriCorps volunteers who are:
- 18+ years old
- High School grads, GED or working on getting a GED
- Licensed to drive
- Able to work 10 1/2 months and at least 1700 total hours.
Sound Interesting?
Contact the Habitat OC AmeriCorps Vista Volunteer Manager .
Where in the world have the Habitat OC AmeriCorps volunteers been?
Here's the 2010 AmeriCorps team at their farewell party. They will be missed!
Habitat OC AmeriCorps lend a hand in Iowa
Habitat OC's AmeriCorps joined 800 other volunteers to help rebuild in flood-damaged Iowa. The AmeriCorps Build-a-Thon took place in June 2010 and included:
- Over 500 Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps members from across the nation
- Over 150 AmeriCorps VISTA members
- Nearly 360 AmeriCorps National members
- Over 30 Habitat for Humanity AmeriCorps Host Site managers
- Nearly 50 Cedar Valley HFH Partner Family members
- Nearly 100 Cedar Valley HFH volunteers
- HFH affiliate staff members and volunteers from various affiliates throughout the US
- Numerous Habitat for Humanity RV Care-A-Vanner’s
- The entire Cedar Valley staff and their AmeriCorps members
- An AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps team (NCCC) from the Vinton, Iowa, campus
- Many local donors, partners and supporters of Cedar Valley HFH
- And Over 40 HFHI staff members.
Despite the rain delays, the dedicated volunteers repaired 6 homes in the Wellington Heights neighborhood through Habitat’s A Brush with Kindness program. They dried-in 11 new homes and prepared 2 other homes in Robins, IA. They helped rehabilitate 3 homes in areas directly impacted by the flood of 2008.
They had a direct impact on the lives of 23 families. They met all the goals for the 2010 Build-a-Thon.
The 2010 Habitat OC AmeriCorps exemplify the AmeriCorps motto of “Get Things Done”!