Massachusetts Service Alliance

The americorps program provides funding for nonprofits and public agencies to develop and support americorps members. Full and part-time members spend one year performing intensive Service to meet critical needs in community and economic development, education, disaster recovery and relief, environment, public safety, health and nutrition, human needs, and housing. In the 2021-2022 program year, msa supported 28 americorps programs and 3 americorps planning grants. More than 1,300 americorps members served, investing over 1,600,000 hours of Service, supporting more than 60,000 direct beneficiaries, and engaging over 7,000 additional volunteers.

With the support of the volunteer generation fund grant, msa increased the ability of nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts to utilize volunteers effectively, thus increasing their capacity to serve clients. Msa assisted nonprofits in building their infrastructure through (1) deep and intensive capacity building with 26 organizations through the delivery of the Service enterprise initiative; (2) focused skills-based training on best practices in volunteer management; (3) mini-grants to 35 organizations to support volunteer engagement activities for national days of Service and capacity-building grants to organizations that engage volunteers to support youth programming. Overall through these grants, organizations engaged over 6,500 volunteers.

In 2021-2022, msa had 27 commonwealth corps members serving at 12 host site partners across the state, providing more than 25,200 hours of Service to strengthen communities, build organizational capacity, increase volunteerism, and positively impact Massachusetts residents. Through their capacity building efforts, commonwealth corps members recruited or managed over 559 community volunteers to contribute more than 15,000 hours of Service, leveraged approximately $586,000 of cash or in-kind support, and supported more than 3,300 new beneficiaries in receiving services.