Drawing on a long tradition in the United States of voluntary community service, the AmeriCorps program was formally created during the presidency of Bill Clinton, and its stability and increased success was ensured by President Bush in 2003, when he signed the Strengthen AmeriCorps Program Act. First-time visitors to the site may want to begin by looking through the “About AmeriCorps” section....

The National Service Knowledge Network is designed to link together people working in different areas of the Corporation for National and Community Service, which includes programs like AmeriCorps and Senior Corps. The network is organized into six browsable Knowledge Networks: Veterans and Military Families, Education, Disaster Services, Healthy Futures, Environmental Stewardship, and Economic...