What is AmeriCorps Week?

AmeriCorps Week is an annual event designed to:

• Bring more Americans into service
• Salute AmeriCorps members and alums
• Thank community partners

The first-ever AmeriCorps Week, in 2007, was a huge success, with more than 200 events taking place in all 50 states, including an Oval Office event with President Bush (click here for other 2007 highlights). We’re aiming to make the 2008 AmeriCorps Week—which is taking place May 11-18—even bigger and better, and that can happen only if as many AmeriCorps projects, members, and friends participate as possible.

What Can I Do for AmeriCorps Week?
Whether you’re a project director, member, alumnus, partner, or friend, we encourage you to take part in AmeriCorps Week 2008.

Last year, members and alumni made presentations to student and community groups during AmeriCorps Week. Grantees staged open houses, service projects, volunteer fairs, and recruitment blitzes. And local officials and elected leaders served as AmeriCorps members for a day.

In other words, there is no prescription for marking the event, and we strongly encourage you to use your creativity to devise new and different ways to demonstrate the powerful impact that AmeriCorps is making in your community.

http://www.americorps.gov/about/americorpsweek/index.asp