Commonwealth Corps
The mission of the Commonwealth Corps is to engage Massachusetts residents of all ages and backgrounds in direct service to rebuild communities and address unmet community needs. The Commonwealth Corps provides opportunities for skill building, leadership development and encourages and enhances a lifelong civic vocation for Corps members. Corps members provide direct service, build capacity, and recruit, organize and mobilize additional volunteers, thus building a grassroots movement of volunteers dedicated to service.
As a result of the three years of the program:
- 659 members completed 381,632 hours of service
- 24,375 additional community volunteers were engaged
- 484,038 people benefited from member engagement
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Commonwealth Corps Summer Program 2011
The Commonwealth Corps Summer program was a unique, one-time opportunity to use Commonwealth Corps members to provide academic support and civic engagement activities to middle schoolaged youth at 37 locations throughout the summer months, a time when at-risk young people typically have fewer options for positive activities. The program served to strengthen relationships between institutions of higher education and community-based organizations.
Program Outcomes:
- 93 Commonwealth Corps members provided over 30,000 hours of service
- 1,745 middle school aged youth received member support
- 614 students successfully completed college awareness activities
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