Serve Wisconsin

We are AmeriCorps in Wisconsin Serve Wisconsin works with AmeriCorps members and community partners to meet critical needs throughout Wisconsin. We focus on solving tough problems in educational achievement, economic opportunity, childhood obesity, health access, environmental protection, and homeless and runaway youth. AmeriCorps members are given the opportunity to enrich the lives of the people and communities they serve and their own lives through professional and personal development. As the state’s administrator for federal AmeriCorps funds, we provide grants to nonprofit organizations that have been selected to run AmeriCorps programs. Serve Wisconsin provides training and technical assistance and monitors these organizations to ensure that they adhere to all federal rules and regulations related to their AmeriCorps grants. MISSION Serve Wisconsin promotes service, provides training and allocates resources to programs that enrich lives and communities through service and volunteerism. HISTORY In September 1993, President Bill Clinton signed the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 which created AmeriCorps as we know it today and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which oversees AmeriCorps. This Act allowed for better organization and expanded opportunities for Americans to serve their communities. It also allowed for the creation of state National and Community Service Commissions to direct federal resources on the local level. Serve Wisconsin was established January 28, 1994 as Wisconsin's National and Community Service Commission by Governor Tommy G. Thompson under Executive Order "to encourage service and volunteer participation as a means of community and state problem-solving; to promote and support voluntary citizen involvement in government and private programs throughout the state; to develop a long-term vision and plan of action for community service initiatives in Wisconsin; and to serve as the State's liaison to national and state organizations which support its mission." We are AmeriCorps in Wisconsin Serve Wisconsin works with AmeriCorps members and community partners to meet critical needs throughout Wisconsin. We focus on solving tough problems in educational achievement, economic opportunity, childhood obesity, health access, environmental protection, and homeless and runaway youth. AmeriCorps members are given the opportunity to enrich the lives of the people and communities they serve and their own lives through professional and personal development. As the state’s administrator for federal AmeriCorps funds, we provide grants to nonprofit organizations that have been selected to run AmeriCorps programs. Serve Wisconsin provides training and technical assistance and monitors these organizations to ensure that they adhere to all federal rules and regulations related to their AmeriCorps grants.