AmeriCorps: A network of national service programs that engage more than 50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in education, public safety, health, and the environment. Through AmeriCorps, students can receive money to help pay for school. Serve full-time, usually for a term lasting 10 months to one year, to be eligible for an educational award of up to $4,725. Working part-time offers eligibility for a partial award.

For more information, visit AmeriCorps.

Learn & Serve America: This national service grant program combines school curriculum and community service. Grants are used to create new programs or provide training and development to staff, faculty, and volunteers.

For more details, visit the Corporation for National Service.

Peace Corps: Currently over 6,500 Peace Corps volunteers are serving in 70 countries, working to bring clean water to communities, teach children, help start new small businesses, and stop the spread of AIDS.

Volunteers receive intensive language and cross-cultural training to become part of the communities where they live. They speak the local language and adapt to the cultures and customs of the people with whom they work.

Learn more about the Peace Corps.