While looking for a job earlier this year, Shareki Chaney, 26, kept busy by volunteering at her son’s public charter school.Now Chaney has a new job as a Volunteer in Service to America. She is ...

AmeriCorps Seniors is part of AmeriCorps, an organization which began in 1964 with the Volunteers in Service To America program. VISTA works to help communities fight against poverty.

In 2011, the number of volunteers reached a five-year high with some 64.3 million Americans volunteering with formal organizations, according to the Corporation for National and Community Service.

AmeriCorps Week is also a recruitment event to engage more Americans in service. More than 500,000 men and women have participated in AmeriCorps by dedicating a year or two of full-time service.

Bob Vancoughnett, an Ambulance Corps volunteer in upstate New York, said fewer volunteers means squads must respond to fewer calls. "The strain is cast upon the neighboring agencies to cover those ...

AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS). Its mission is to alleviate poverty through volunteering.

The puppies are fostered by volunteers for 12 months starting when they are eight weeks old. Then once they know basic obedience, they're returned to Guide Dogs of America for more training.

VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America, allows people with knowledge and professional skills to help the disadvantaged. The national service program designed specifically to fight poverty was ...

The program, called MEDBANK of Maryland, uses volunteers from Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) to fill out paperwork and coordinate with doctors to make sure patients get timely refills of ...

LEWISBURG -- The Susquehanna Greenway Partnership is looking for volunteers as part of the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program to work on projects in the river watershed.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - Kids in Volunteers of America’s family emergency center are getting some back-to-school supplies for the upcoming school year. Families living in the Unity House in ...