AmeriCorps*Texas Grantees
2010 - 2011 AmeriCorps*Texas Programs
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Amarillo Independent School District I Amarillo ISD AmeriCorps
AVANCE, Inc. - El Paso Chapter I AVANCE - El Paso AmeriCorps
Casa de Amigos of Midland I STARS
CitySquare I N2 Texas Corps
City Year, Inc. I City Year San Antonio
College Forward I College Forward Partnership for Higher Education
Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc. I CIS Dallas Region AmeriCorps Program
Communities In Schools of Central Texas I Communities In Schools of Central Texas AmeriCorps
Communities In Schools of the Heart of Texas I CIS Community Servers
Easter Seals Central Texas I ASSET AmeriCorps
Goodwill Industries of Central East Texas I TMC MentorCorps Project
Harris County Department of Education I CASE AmeriCorps Kids' Day Project
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District | AmeriCorps Youth Harvest
Project Transformation I Project Transformation AmeriCorps
Schulenburg Weimar In Focus Together Inc. I SWIFT AmeriCorps
Teach For America I Teach For America Rio Grande Valley
Texas A&M International University I TAMIU ADELANTE
Texas A&M University I TAMU Colonias AmeriCorps Disaster Recovery and Preparedness
Travis County Department of Human Services I Travis County CAPITAL AmeriCorps Project
United Way of El Paso County I HIPPY El Paso
University of North Texas I Texas HIPPYCorps
The University of Texas at Austin - Charles A. Dana Center I ACE AmeriCorps
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College I UTB/TSC AmeriCorps Program
2010 - 2011 AmeriCorps*Texas Planning Grants
Planning grants are awarded to organizations to support the development of an AmeriCorps operating grant proposal. The length of the planning grant period is no longer than 12 months. Planning grants do not have AmeriCorps members.
Breakthrough | Expanding Community Impact
Texas Education Agency | CIS of Texas AmeriCorps Planning Grant
The University of Texas System | Texas College Advising Corp
Program Information
Amarillo Independent School District
Program Name: Amarillo ISD AmeriCorps
Service Areas: Amarillo
Description: The AmeriCorps program at the Amarillo Independent School District (Amarillo ISD AmeriCorps) provides one-on-one tutoring to elementary school students to provide them with knowledge and skills for academic success. The program provides tutoring at 14 elementary schools and partners with an after-school program to provide tutoring services. The program uses high school students as tutors who are trained in curriculum instructional technology, classroom management, learning styles, teaching styles, assertive discipline and other topics to help them become successful tutors. It also utilizes AmeriCorps members from the local college and university to serve in after school programs. In addition, the program recruits community volunteers to be involved in literacy events and to read aloud to students.
Program Contact: Cheryl Reed
Website: http://www.amaisd.org
AVANCE, Inc. - El Paso Chapter
Program Name: AVANCE - El Paso AmeriCorps
Service Areas: El Paso, Dallas
Description: The AVANCE - El Paso AmeriCorps program focuses on school readiness and places members as child and family education aides in a results-driven child development, parenting and family literacy program. AVANCE uses team-based placement of members with staff to enrich program services and to expand services that will reach children and families across El Paso County and Dallas. AVANCE seeks to increase parents' involvement in their children's education and school readiness. Over time, this should result in increased attendance and grade-passing rates as well as higher reading scores and math scores, which will be evaluated in follow-up evaluations of graduates of El Paso and Dallas Independent School District.
Program Contact: Margie Sanchez
Website: http://www.avance-elpaso.org
Casa de Amigos of Midland
Program Name: STARS
Service Areas: Midland
Description: The Student Tutoring Assessment Readiness Success (STARS) program engages full-time and half-time AmeriCorps members to address literacy issues in elementary school children in Midland, Texas. STARS has a direct impact on the lives of children by increasing their reading scores and self-esteem to help them become successful in school and plan for a positive future.
Program Contact: Paul Acosta
Website: http://www.casadeamigosmidland.org
CitySquare
Program Name: N2 Texas Corps
Service Areas: Dallas and San Antonio
Description: N2 Texas Corps, the AmeriCorps program at CitySquare, brings together 18 nonprofit organizations to focus on improving the rates of educational attainment of area youth. CitySquare serves as an intermediary organization, placing members in local organizations to provide access to after-school and summer youth enrichment programs that help students stay in school and improve their school performance.
Program Contact: Jennifer Rajkumar
Website: http://www.cdmamericorps.org
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City Year, Inc.
Program Name: City Year San Antonio
Service Areas: San Antonio
Description: City Year San Antonio (CYSA) engages AmeriCorps members, ages 17-24 to address gaps in educational attainment in San Antonio. These young adults are mentors, tutors and role models that focus on improving Attendance, Behavior, and Course (ABC) performance (Math and English) in low performing schools. To improve the ABCs, CY provides the following: Before School, Corps Members (CMs) engage in “power greeting” as students arrive to school. This enables CMs to build relationships with students, which also helps to cultivate learning. In School, CMs provide academic and Socio-emotional support, which helps to create a positive school climate. After School, CMs create and lead after school clubs that help academic enrichment, as well as school and community engagements. Out of School, CMs provide Out-of-School Saturday service learning and leadership development. Students learn about community issues and ways of mitigating those issues through service. Students also learn how to become effective and efficient leaders in their communities.
Program Contact: Paul Garro
Website: http://www.cityyear.org/sanantonio
College Forward
Program Name: College Forward Partnership for Higher Education
Service Areas: Austin, Del Valle, Georgetown, Hays, Manor, Pflugerville, and Round Rock ISDs; Greater Houston
Description: The College Forward AmeriCorps program provides college access and college persistence services to motivated, economically disadvantaged students to help facilitate their transition to college. The program not only seeks to help low-income and first-generation students gain access to college, but also provides support to their parents as well as the preparation needed to successfully complete college. The vision of College Forward is to change the face of education in Texas so that every student, regardless of family income or background, can graduate from college.
Program Contact: Emily Steinberg, 512.807.3104
Website: http://www.collegeforward.org
Communities In Schools of Central Texas
Program Name: Communities In Schools of Central Texas AmeriCorps
Service Areas: Austin, Buda, Kyle, Lockhart, Niederwald and Georgetown
Description: Communities In Schools of Central Texas AmeriCorps provides and leverages social service interventions that address both academic and non-academic barriers and promote the academic success of students. AmeriCorps members serve as supportive mentors, academic supporters and service learning project leaders to students on school campuses. Members provide mentoring and supportive guidance to students one-on-one or in small groups, provide academic support such as homework help and classroom support and recruit volunteers to help support the program. AmeriCorps members support the overall mission of Communities In Schools to help students stay in school and prepare for life.
Program Contact: Jennifer Jefts, 512.464.9733
Website: http://www.cisaustin.org
Communities In Schools Dallas Region, Inc.
Program Name: CIS Dallas Region AmeriCorps Program
Service Areas: Carrollton-Farmers, Commerce, Dallas, Irving, Midlothian, and Richardson.
Description: The CIS Dallas Region AmeriCorps Program places AmeriCorps members in selected schools in the Dallas region to provide academic enhancement to students, including tutoring, service learning and community volunteerism, as well as parents' education. Members tutor students in reading, math and science, and assist in recruiting local volunteers. Members also provide academic guidance and manage community service and service learning projects. In addition, members create or maintain a parent resource center and accompany CISDR staff on home visits to provide parent education and guidance.
Program Contact: Judith Allen
Website: http://www.cisdallas.org
Communities In Schools of the Heart of Texas
Program Name: CIS Community Servers
Service Areas: Waco and Marlin
Description: CIS Community Servers AmeriCorps members are placed in Waco and Marlin area schools and with several partner agencies to help increase students' educational attainment by increasing grades and retention rates. The members placed in schools tutor individuals and small groups of students, and provide group academic activities during after-school programming at the campus. The members also mentor students individually and in small groups to help build rapport and address issues that are keeping students from focusing on and staying in school.
Program Contact: Jennifer Mikeska
Website: http://www.cis-hot.org
Easter Seals Central Texas
Program Name: ASSET AmeriCorps
Service Areas: Austin (projects with local and statewide reach), Abilene, Bellaire, Bryan, El Paso, Fort Worth, Lubbock, Odessa, Tyler, and Corpus Christi
Description: The Active Service Solutions for Economic Transitions (ASSET) AmeriCorps project supports ten Texas communities in assisting people with disabilities and supporting their independence in the community by providing educational opportunities in the areas of financial literacy, housing and assistive technology. ASSET is a multi-site program, with AmeriCorps members placed in partner agencies where Easter Seals Central Texas has established relationships through other program activities.
Program Contact: Salena Acox
Website: http://centraltx.easterseals.com
Goodwill Industries of Central East Texas, Inc.
Program Name: TMC MentorCorps Project
Service Areas: Lufkin, Diboll, Livingston, and Nacogdoches
Description: The TMC MentorCorps Project at Goodwill Industries of Central East Texas uses a mentor model to address educational and other needs of at-risk youth. Goodwill Industries of Central East Texas is an intermediary, placing AmeriCorps members at host sites to mentor youth to improve graduation rates, GED attainment and school readiness. AmeriCorps members recruit and train volunteers, and provide one-on-one or small group mentoring to at-risk youth during the program year. Host sites include community and faith-based organizations, school districts and governmental entities. Two colleges will serve as partners to help recruit and train members.
Program Contact: Erica Cook
Website: http://www.lufkingoodwill.org/MentorCorps.htm
Harris County Department of Education
Program Name: CASE AmeriCorps Kids' Day Project
Service Areas: Harris County
Description: Harris County Department of Education engages the Cooperative for After-School Enrichment (CASE) AmeriCorps Kids' Day Project members at existing after-school programs for homework help, enrichment activities, service activities and Kids' Day projects with students. Kids' Day projects are a way to link education with real-life applications and to expose students to careers in various professions related to math, science and technology. Students receive hands-on lessons through a semester-long curriculum aligned with state educational standards in core academic subjects.
Program Contact: Justin Jackson
Website: http://hcde-texas.org
Pharr-San Juan-Alamo Independent School District
Program Name: AmeriCorps Youth Harvest
Service Areas: San Juan, Pharr, Alamo, Edcouch, La Joya, McAllen, Donna, Mission, Palmview, Hidalgo, Monte Alto
Description: The AmeriCorps Youth Harvest program engages high school seniors from nine local school districts to serve as tutors for students learning basic reading skills. Members are placed in local elementary schools, after-school programs, and community and faith-based organizations. At their sites, members implement tutoring programs to meet their individual client needs.
Program Contact: Georgia Montoya
Website: http://psja.schoolfusion.us
Project Transformation
Program Name: Project Transformation AmeriCorps
Service Areas: Dallas
Description: Project Transformation (PT) AmeriCorps engages AmeriCorps members in leadership and service by providing educational after-school and summer programs for at-risk children and youth, building influential relationships and connecting volunteers, churches and other organizations to underserved communities. PT serves low-income communities in the Dallas area that suffer from problems associated with families' lack of financial resources--specifically, substandard classroom performance and poor nutrition. Members work with children and youth, grades one through nine, in after-school programs and summer day camps located at 10 inner-city sites in Dallas and Fort Worth and three sites in outlying underserved neighborhoods. Through these activities, PT expects to achieve for its youth participants improved literacy rates, increased grade performance in math and decreased grade retention.
Program Contact: Eric Lindh
Website: http://www.projecttransformation.org
Schulenburg Weimar In Focus Together, Inc.
Program Name: SWIFT AmeriCorps Program
Service Areas: Schulenburg and Weimar
Description: The SWIFT AmeriCorps program is designed to improve student test scores, re-engage parents in their children's education and improve health knowledge. SWIFT AmeriCorps members tutor in elementary classrooms and after-school at Boys & Girls Clubs. Parent education starts with early childhood development and ESL classes. Members coordinate age-appropriate Healthy Choices presentations on-campus annually to improve nutrition knowledge and reduce childhood obesity. Members assist 7-12 grade students and their families prepare for life beyond high school, focusing on families never having a member attend higher education. They help with FAFSA, financial aid and basic money management. There is an emphasis on building self-esteem, stressing that our lives are a culmination of every choice made, and that an individual's choices affect not only themselves and their family, but those around them.
Program Contact: Sylvan Rossi
Website: http://www.swift.cc
Teach for America
Program Name: Teach For America Rio Grande Valley
Service Areas: Donna, Brownsville, Alamo, Edcouch, Harlingen, Mission, La Joya, Mercedes, San Juan, Pharr, Rio Grande City, Roma and San Benito
Description: Teach for America Rio Grande Valley engages recent college graduates as teachers for a minimum of two years in low-performing Rio Grande Valley schools.
Program Contact: Erica Quintanilla
Website: http://www.teachforamerica.org/about/regions/rio_grande_valley.htm
Texas A&M International University
Program Name: TAMIU ADELANTE
Service Areas: Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Crystal City, Laredo, Carrizo Springs, Cotulla, Benavides, San Diego, Hebbronville and Zapata
Description: TAMIU ADELANTE is an AmeriCorps program that provides services focused on youth educational attainment to mostly Hispanic, economically disadvantaged and first-generation students, including migrant and seasonal farm workers, in the following South Texas counties: Val Verde, Maverick, Dimmit, Zavala, Zapata, Webb, Jim Hogg, Duval and La Salle. The project focuses on demonstrating improved student attendance, increased equivalency attainment for its GED students, increased number of students staying in school and increased parent involvement. The project is conducted in collaboration with TAMIU's GEAR UP, HEP and CAMP programs, as well as with partner school districts in each of the counties served.
Program Contact: Dr. Julio F. Madrigal
Website: http://www.tamiu.edu
Texas A&M University
Program Name: TAMU Colonias AmeriCorps Disaster Recovery and Preparedness
Service Areas: Alton, San Carlos, Brownsville, Lasara, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Zapata, Laredo, Monte Alto, San Juan, Starr, Alamo and Progreso
Description: The TAMU Colonias AmeriCorps Disaster Recovery and Preparedness program engages colonias in a 10-county area along the Texas/Mexico border in an effort to improve disaster response efforts. The counties served include Willacy, Cameron, Hidalgo, Starr, Jim Hogg, Zapata, Maverick, Val Verde, El Paso and Hudspeth. The AmeriCorps members are participating in education and outreach efforts, developing a Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), improving collaboration between community and governmental agencies, developing communications plans, developing a water filtration system for use in time of disaster and developing local communication structures.
Program Contact: Barbara Henry-Thomas
Website: http://archone.tamu.edu/chud
Travis County Department of Human Services
Program Name: Travis County CAPITAL AmeriCorps Project
Service Areas: Austin
Description: Travis County Capital AmeriCorps Project (TC-CAP) is an AmeriCorps program that provides participants, community members and host site staff with the opportunity to engage in science-learning opportunities to increase students' science literacy. It does this through an after-school enrichment program structured around evidence-based curriculum that the 4-H Club has provided to communities nationwide.
Program Contact: Robert Richter
Website: http://www.4-hcapital.org
United Way of El Paso County
Program Name: HIPPY El Paso
Service Areas: Socorro, El Paso and San Elizario
Description: Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) is a parent involvement and school readiness program that engages, equips and teaches parents to prepare their children for success in school. United Way of El Paso County engages AmeriCorps members in HIPPY, where they serve as home visitors providing a research-based curriculum to parents of preschool children who are three to five years old.
Program Contact: Muriel Thomas-Borders
Website: http://www.unitedwayelpaso.org
University of North Texas
Program Name: Texas HIPPYCorps
Service Areas: Dallas, Grand Prairie, Houston, Irving, Richardson and Snyder
Description: The Home Instruction Program for Parents of Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) integrated with AmeriCorps, known as HIPPYCorps, provides school readiness and parental involvement opportunity to underprivileged families in Texas. Member service activities include providing weekly home visits and periodic parent meetings in order to train parents to prepare their three-, four- and five-year-olds for school, and to encourage and support parents to volunteer in their children's school.
Program Contact: Carla-Marie Weir
Website: http://www.unt.edu/hippy
The University of Texas at Austin - Charles A. Dana Center
Program Name: ACE AmeriCorps
Service Areas: Austin
Description: The A Community for Education (ACE) program has been working in the Austin Independent School District since 1994 to improve school readiness through intensive early literacy intervention services to students in high-poverty schools. The ACE program engages AmeriCorps members to provide daily one-to-one and small group literacy support to pre-kindergarten through second grade students and their parents.
Program Contact: Mary Ellen Isaacs
Website: http://www.utdanacenter.org/ace
The University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College
Program Name: UTB/TSC AmeriCorps Program
Service Areas: Brownsville, Port Isabel, Los Fresnos and San Benito
Description: UTB/TSC AmeriCorps College Opportunities and Readiness Network's goal is to provide area high school students with the formula for success. The goal of the program is to increase the number of students who complete high school and continue on with training or education after graduation. AmeriCorps members assist students in developing, reviewing and revising their educational plans, monitor the academic progress of students, provide career planning and serve as liaisons for students in Dual Enrollment programs.
Program Contact: Daniel Yarritu
Website: http://www.utb.edu
