Pennsylvania Mountain Service Corps AmeriCorps members have been addressing critical needs across Southwestern/Southcentral, PA for 30 years: #makingadifference #gettingthingsdone #thankful
#pmscamericorpsyear30 #NationalServiceWorks AmeriCorps #gettingthingsdone #MakeADifference #Pennsylvania #ArborDay
#gettingthingsdone #earthday #pmscamericorpsyear30 #EnvironmentalStewardship
1994-2024: PMSC AmeriCorps members made 634.26 miles of PA’s trails and waterways cleaner, safer, and healthier. At Mid-Year 2024-2025: currently improving over 74.22 miles of PA public trails and waterways. At Mid-Year 2024-2025: currently engaging 382 volunteers to bring out the best of America.
Four *new* Summer 2025 positions now open! #SummerofService AmeriCorps #ChooseAmeriCorps Three Rivers Waterkeeper , Pittsburgh, PA; Taproot Kitchen, State College, PA & Indiana County Conservation District, Indiana, PA. #share
🚨🚨Potential Host Sites: limited number of Summer 2025 positions NOW AVAILABLE- apply to host a Summer 2025 PMSC AmeriCorps member here: https://www.pmsc.org/page/apply-to-be-a-host-site
#gettingthingsdone in Centre County, PA-- thankful for our partner Student Farm at Penn State with Ayiana Biddle and Sarah Landauer as they launch into planting season to get healthy food to Centre County community members. And, thank you, Shaver's Creek Environmental Center for allowing our folks to assist with your amazing Maple Harvest Festival this weekend. Way to go, Lydia Neuhauser, Caitlin Dooley, & Sarah Landauer.
AmeriCorps Week 2025: Recap!
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AmeriCorps Week because AmeriCorps Works- for Pennsylvania and for America
PMSC AmeriCorps members serve directly with non-profits, schools, and government agencies to tackle Southwestern/Southcentral Pennsylvania’s most pressing challenges in environmental stewardship, health & wellness, and K-12 education. 2024-2025 is PMSC AmeriCorps 30th year of getting things done for Pennsylvania and for America.
From March 9-15, 2025, host site partners, supporters, staff, and members are celebrating the incredible accomplishments and contributions of PMSC AmeriCorps members who serve across 15 counties and 10,000 miles in communities across Southwestern/Southcentral, Pennsylvania, PMSC AmeriCorps members make a difference--- one smile, one acre, one decodable reader, one native plant, one life-skills lesson, one outreach event, one encouraging word, one bushel, one tributary, one math fact, one hygiene supply: one day at a time.
These are selfless community servants who get things done to bring out the very best of America. Since 1994, 2,995 members have given of their time, skill, and talent in a dedicated term of National Service through PMSC AmeriCorps. Over the past 30 years, Education Academic Success members have empowered 205, 977 of PA’s K-12 learners in literacy, math, and social/emotional well-being. Healthy Futures members have assisted and cared for: 222,105 of PA’s individual children, youth, and adults in housing, food, mental and physical health crises. Environmental Stewardship members made 634.26 miles of PA’s trails and waterways cleaner, safer, and healthier. And, these individuals of all backgrounds, ages, and levels of experience have contributed a combined total of: 4,000,279.50 hours to make PA’s people, land, & water --healthier, safer, & stronger.
These are the faces of the 2024-2025 PMSC AmeriCorps team-- difference makers every single day. AmeriCorps works for America.
PMSC AmeriCorps members write their #AmeriStory one smile, one acre, one decodable reader, one native plant, one life-skills lesson, one outreach event, one encouraging word, one bushel, one tributary, one math fact, one hygiene supply, one day at a time... they are #gettingthingsdone for Pennsylvania and for America-- making the nation healthier, safer, and stronger day by day. Kate Peters Zhorea McAnuff Paige Cunningham Rachel Webb Rebecca Burns Laurie Pence Rogers Leah Murray #AmeriCorpsWeek #AmeriCorpsWorks #americorpspa
One more #AmeriThanks for the day! #gettingthingsdone in Allegheny, Westmoreland, Fulton, and Bedford counties. Monica Rebar, Dominic Demangone, Harlee Chamberlain Brittany Ruby, Trinity May, Rashelle Heggins, Angela Valotta, Tamiya Thomas, KD Linkhauer, Jacob Levendosky, Kim Harris, Alicia Deshong, Samantha Hensley. Special thanks to AmeriAlumni of Westmoreland Conservation District and Host site Supervisor at Everett Area School District - PA for joining the photos! #AmeriCorpsWeek #AmeriCorpsWorks AmeriCorps
Thank you Cambria County Commissioners: Keith Rager, Thomas Chernisky, & Scott Hunt & Thank you Gov. Josh Shapiro, for officially declaring it #AmeriCorpsWeek recognizing the service of PMSC AmeriCorps and all PA AmeriCorps members serving across the Commonwealth. #americorpspa
We're proud to share that #AmeriCorpsWorks in Pennsylvania! Check out AmeriCorps2025 National Service Report to see how more than 8,500 Pennsylvanians make a difference in communities across our state. ⤵️
Learn more: AmeriCorps.gov/Pennsylvania
#ImpactDay 2025: The 2024-2025-30th PMSC AmeriCorps team of 79 active members currently serves: 1,683 K-12 PA learners; 2,664 of PA's youth and adults in health/wellness crises; & 74.22 miles of PA's public trails and waterways. Ordinary citizens-extraordinary acts: one student, one community member, one acre, one river at a time. #gettingthingsdone for 30 years to make PA & America healthier, safer, and stronger. #AmeriCorpsWeek #NationalServiceWorks #milesforsmiles with Day 3 member mini-visits: Jade Britt-Andrews Maria Manon Terri Ann Rievel Michelle Brown Ellie Long Emmie Garver Charley Hoffman Destiny Kasempiriyakorn Marsha Chaney Roxann Durham Fisher Hobble Elizabeth Carr
When all those miles were worth it... for all those smiles! Day 2 on the road with PMSC AmeriCorps serving Southwestern/Southcentral, PA-- #gettingthingsdone for PA's people, land, and water. Making America healthier, safer and stronger--one #smile (and lots of hard work) at a time! #AmeriCorpsWorks #AmeriCorpsWeek #NationalServiceWorks with Joece Lynn Rebecca Caldwell Lyndsy Horvath Deja Kniss Taylor Kline Makiyah Beauford Ava Stager Andrea Hensel Cody McMillen Haley Mosorjak Katie Stupar Natalie Pierce Addie Byrum Lillian Lux
It's #AmeriCorpsWeek #partnerappreciationday. We are so thankful for all host site partners who make #NationalService possible in Southwestern/Southcentral, PA. It's an honor to serve the people, land, & water of PA with you. These are the organizations who address critical needs in education, environmental stewardship, and health & wellness-- empowering and investing in each local AmeriCorps member to #getthingsdone for PA and for America. Thank you- Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 Current 2024-2025 partners: Altoona Area School DistrictARIN Intermediate Unit 28 Armstrong Conservation District State College Borough Cambria County Backpack ProjectCenter for Population Health Central Cambria School District Central Fulton School District Centre Region Council of Governments Claysburg-Kimmel School District Conemaugh Township Area School District Everett Area School District - PA Forest Hills School District Friends of the Riverfront Gallery on Gazebo Greater Johnstown School District Grounded Hope for Hyndman Charter School Indiana County Conservation District Ligonier Valley School District Mountain Watershed Association North Star Central Elementary Peer Empowerment Network Pennsylvania Resources Council Student Farm at Penn State Portage Area School District Somerset Area School District Spring Cove School District Spring Creek Watershed Commission Stackhouse Park Taproot Kitchen Think We, Not Me Community Food Growing Program Three Rivers Waterkeeper Ferguson Township Tyrone Area School District UPMC Altoona Family Physicians Residency Program The Watersmith Guild Western Pennsylvania Conservancy Westmont Hilltop School District Westmoreland Land Trust Westmoreland Conservation District
Monday, 3/10, we kick-off #AmeriCorpsWeek 2025 with #DayoftheA. Currently serving as a member?? One of PMSC's 2,995 alumni? Dig out your "A" gear and share your #AmeriStory--There's a place for everyone in #nationalservice
#AmeriCorpsWorks #makeadifference Snap a selfie and tag Pennsylvania Mountain Service Corps AmeriCorps, AmeriCorps & #DayoftheA
Recently, PMSC members Addie Byrum and Lilee Lux, were in the Allegheny National Forest with Western Pennsylvania Conservancy inserting Large Woody Material (LWM) into and across streams. LWM involves felling trees which mimics natural processes in order to create and improve fish habitat, reduce stream bank erosion, widen the floodplain, and prevent flooding downstream. As AmeriCorps members, they are stewarding PA's public lands-- making America healthier, safer & stronger each and every day. Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8 #NationalServiceWorks #gettingthingsdone
Educating, empowering, celebrating, challenging: Americans serving Americans. That's just who we are: PMSC AmeriCorps. Marsha Chaney and the team at Gallery on Gazebo engaged local artists in a special community history exhibit for Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service; Kayla Blackford, Terri Duffy, Jenna Elizabeth, Brayden Smith engaged hundreds of students at Conemaugh Township Area School District in service to their community with a supply drive (students brough in over 1,000 items!) to benefit the clients of Victim Services Inc. and Women's Help Center, Inc.; Roxann Durham created a special lesson for 5th grade Claysburg-Kimmel School District learners on improving their communities and being of service to others. #MLKDay The weather delays did not dissuade these awesome members from #gettingthingsdone for their communities!
#gettingthingsdone with PMSC AmeriCorps members for #MLKDayofService 2025 this week-- Ma'Kiyah Beauford and the team at ARIN Intermediate Unit 28 hosted a Blood Drive with the American Red Cross; Zhorea McAnuff is hosting an essentials drive to benefit community members served by UPMC Altoona Family Physicians Residency Program; Catherine Duman (Portage Area School District) is helping beautify a local community gathering space Portage Public Library; and Destiny Kasempiriyakorn (Central Cambria School District) and Charley Hoffman (Spring Cove School District) are challenging their learners with special lessons on community building and the life of #MLK. Touching lives-- #BridgingDivides #makingadifference-- it's just what.we.do: 30 years and counting! #pmscamericorpsyear30 #MemberLed #TakeTheLead Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8
#MLKDayofService projects are off an running already as PMSC AmeriCorps engage children, youth, and adults in service and #community building: Natalie and Katie are environmental stewardship PMSC members serving with Armstrong Conservation District who partnered with Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank at the Armstrong County Drive-Up Food distribution, serving over 400 families and helping to distribute over 12,000 pounds of fresh food. Elizabeth Carr serves with Forest Hills School District and Alicia serves with Central Fulton School District as school-based education members. They engaged their learners in creative lessons on building community and bridging divides in honor of #MLKDay2025 because #NationalServiceWorks. #pmscamericorpsyear30 still #gettingthingsdone.
PMSC @americorps members are engaging in over 50 Member-led MLK National Day of Service Projects across the region. The members @ Indiana County Conservation District @indianaccd as well as Friends of the Riverfront @friendsoftheriverfront , Three Rivers Waterkeeper @3rwaterkeeper , Western Pennsylvania Conservancy @waterlandlife Pennsylvania Resources Council and Grounded @groundedpgh invite you to join them in their member-led environmental stewardship projects THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY, 1/17&18/25! #MLKDayofService #MLKDay #mlkday2025 #gettingthingsdone you can register for the events @ friendsoftheriverfront.org/event and @ https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSccihWh3_2veNFJOod1lMl8m_U14G8c74Bi7nASAlUxmD54tw/viewform?usp=dialog
PMSC AmeriCorps members Kate Peters, Senda Harvey, Roxann Durham serving with Altoona Area School District spreading holiday cheer this weekend with Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. #gettingthingsdone for Blair County's kids and families. #pmscamericorpsyear30
