"locals serving locals for 20 years."
The Team of 2015-16 have all had their exit interviews. The Supervisors have sent them all off with words ringing with endorsement and gratitude. Here are some of the comments we heard: “Expanded our program beyond any other year.” “Took…..
AmeriCorps has a few short snappy sayings that sum up the spirit of the work. One is “Getting Things Done” which says that the Project Change Team are all about ACTION, rolling up their sleeves and getting stuck in. Another…..
This Friday, Project Change hosts the Supervisors of our 7 Partner Sites to come and share their experiences and learn more about AmeriCorps and the importance of the role that they play. Since many of them are graduates of Project…..
Last Friday, the team were treated to a special training from Lynne Feingold, master coach and one of the leaders of the peer to peer coaching network in the Federal Government. Lynne took the group through a series of exercises…..
Project Change got off to a great start, with four Friday meetings during the month of September to get everyone into the AmeriCorps groove. The highlight was our trip to Camp Letts, on a beautiful day where the team braved the dreaded…..
Today marked the end of the Beginning for the new Project Change team. Director Paul Costello has been explaining the unique Storywise map of their AmeriCorps journey that they have all embarked on and whose goal is to create memories…..
The international outreach of AmeriCorps Project Change continued this month with the visit of graduate David Payne to Dublin and Belfast over the week of September 6th 2015. David was eager to get acquainted with the community service sector in…..
Its been a great summer to help the amazing 2015 2015 team finish their year of service and for Project Change to recruit a whole new team. There are no shortage of applicants and people young and old attracted to…..
Silver Spring school aids budding comic creators Fourth-grader Diana Franco makes a comic at JoAnn Leleck Elementary School at Broad Acres in Silver Spring during an after-school comics club on Monday. Ivan Mendez has been reading comic books since at…..
Over the weekend of March 19-21 2015, Jermarkus Booker, Caprecia Camper and Ben Eichberg traveled to Jerusalem to present a snapshot of their work as young leaders fighting the urgent issues of structural racism in American education. Invited by the…..
This Friday, the Project Change AmeriCorps team are having a full day of training on the latest methods of First Aid and CPR. The trainer is Richelle Barber from the YMCA. It is something you hope you never have to…..