Arkansas 2006 - 2007

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

AmeriCorps: This year AmeriCorps will provide more than 570 individuals the opportunity to

provide intensive, results-driven service to meet education, environmental, public safety and other

pressing needs in communities across Arkansas. Roughly three-quarters of all AmeriCorps grant

funding goes to the Governor-appointed Arkansas Service Commission, which in turn awards grants to

nonprofit groups to respond to local needs. Most of the remainder of the grant funding is distributed by

the Corporation directly to multi-state and national organizations through a competitive grants process.

Other individuals will serve through AmeriCorps*VISTA, whose members help bring individuals and

communities out of poverty by serving full-time to fight illiteracy, improve health services, create

businesses and increase housing opportunities, and AmeriCorps*NCCC (National Civilian Community

Corps), a 10-month, full time residential program for men and women between the ages of 18 and 24.

In exchange for their service, AmeriCorps members earn an education award of up to $4,725 that can

be used to pay for college or to pay back qualified student loans. Since 1994, more than 3,600

Arkansas residents have qualified for Americorps Education Awards totaling more than $12,800,000. 

Learn and Serve America: Learn and Serve America provides grants to schools, colleges,

and nonprofit groups to support efforts to engage more than 3,800 Arkansas students in community

service linked to academic achievement and the development of civic skills. This type of learning, called

service learning, improves communities while preparing young people for a lifetime of responsible

citizenship. In addition to providing grants, Learn and Serve America serves as a resource on service

and service-learning to teachers, faculty members, schools, and community groups.

Meeting community needs in Arkansas. More than 12,000 people of all ages and backgrounds are helping

to meet local needs, strengthen communities, and increase civic engagement through 95 national service projects across

Arkansas. Serving with national and local nonprofits, schools, faith-based organizations and other groups, these citizens

tutor and mentor children, coordinate after-school programs, build homes, conduct neighborhood patrols, restore the

environment, respond to disasters, build nonprofit capacity and recruit and manage volunteers. This year, the Corporation

for National and Community Service will commit more than $11,900,000 to support Arkansas communities through

three national service initiatives: 

Senior Corps: More than 8,100 seniors in Arkansas contribute their time and talents in one of

three Senior Corps programs. Foster Grandparents serve one-on-one as tutors and mentors to more than

 2,700 young people who have special needs. Senior Companions help more than 840 homebound

seniors and other adults maintain independence in their own homes. Retired and Senior Volunteer

Program (RSVP) volunteers conduct safety patrols for local police departments, participate in

environmental projects, tutor and mentor youth, respond to natural disasters, and provide other services

through more than 560 groups across Arkansas.

Together with the USA Freedom Corps, the Corporation for National and Community Service is working to build a

culture of citizenship, service, and responsibility in America. To learn more about the Corporation or any of its programs,

visit www.nationalservice.gov or call 202-606-5000 or TTY 202-565-2799.
Arkansas At a Glance

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

72 575 $5,642,734

AmeriCorps*State (Competitive)

AmeriCorps*State (Formula)

AmeriCorps*National

AmeriCorps*Vista

AmeriCorps*NCCC

Education Awards Program (National)

AmeriCorps

6

5

3

40

9

9

Program Sites

 243

 102

 62

 124

N/A

 44

Participants 

 $2,143,768

 $723,250

 $691,013

 $2,073,903

N/A

 $10,800

Program

Funding

AmeriCorps Total

 22 8,182 $3,666,309

Foster Grandparent Program

Retired and Senior Volunteer Program

Senior Companion Program

Senior Corps

 6

 13

 3

Projects

 619

 7,302

 261

 $2,006,405

 $881,742

 $778,162

Program

Funding

This figure represents the maximum potential value of AmeriCorps Education Awards that can be earned by AmeriCorps members

serving in Arkansas. The award can be used in any state to pay for college, graduate school, vocational training, or to pay back

student loans. The education award total is included in total Corporation funding.

Arkansas is served by the AmeriCorps*NCCC campus located in Charleston, South Carolina. 

In the past year, AmeriCorps*NCCC teams have served on projects in Boles, Little Rock, Mountain Pine and Star City.

1

1

2

This figure represents the number of awarded positions available to be filled in the 2006 - 2007 program year. For AmeriCorps*VISTA

and the Education Awards Program, this represents the actual number of AmeriCorps members in active service.

Participants

 1 3,865 $184,038

K-12 School-Based

Learn and Serve America

 1

Grantees

 3,865

Participants

 $184,038

Program

Funding

Learn and Serve America Total

Program Totals 95 12,622 $9,826,037

 19

 19

 $848,138

 $302,400

 $269,325

 $585,900

N/A

 $127,575

 $2,133,338

3

2

Education

 Award 

3

Disability Outreach

Program Development & Technical Assistance

State Commission Administration

Administrative Funds

 $34,000

 $118,000

 $180,956

N/A $332,956

Program

Funding

 $2,133,338

Total Corporation Funding (including AmeriCorps Education Awards) $11,959,375

Senior Corps Total

Administrative Funds Total

Subgrantees
Senior Corps in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

Arkadelphia

Augusta

Batesville

Batesville

Conway

El Dorado

Ft Smith

Gillham

Harrison

Hot Springs

Hot Springs

Hot Springs

Jonesboro

Jonesboro

Monticello

North Little Rock

Pine Bluff

Primary City

Southcentral Ar FGP

White River RSVP

North Central Ar RSVP

Batesville FGP

State of Arkansas FGP Program

El Dorado Connections

Westark RSVP

DeQueen-Mena Educational Cooperative FGP

RSVP Boone/Marion Counties

SCP of West Central Arkansas-Senior Specialists

Garland County RSVP

Garland County SCP

E AR Foster Grandparent Program

East Ar RSVP

Se Arkansas FGP

Central Arkansas SCP

Jefferson County RSVP

Foster Grandparent Program

RSVP

RSVP

Foster Grandparent Program

Foster Grandparent Program

RSVP

RSVP

Foster Grandparent Program

RSVP

Senior Companion Program

RSVP

Senior Companion Program

Foster Grandparent Program

RSVP

Foster Grandparent Program

Senior Companion Program

RSVP

Number of Program Type

Participants

 85

 210

 600

 88

 140

 354

 800

 122

 300

 125

 645

 84

 52

 665

 132

 52

 580

Program Name

Sponsor Organization (if different)

Ouachita Baptist Univ

White River Rural Health Center, Inc.

Health Resources of Arkansas, Inc.

White River Aaa

Ar Dept Human Svsc-Dev Disabilities

South Ar Regional Health Ctr Inc

Western Ark Counseling & Guidance Ctr

Dequeen-Mena Educational Coop

Ozark Opportunites Inc

Area Agency on Aging Wca

Garland Co Council on Aging

Garland Co Council on Aging

E Ar Area Agency on Aging, Inc.

E Ar Area Agency on Aging, Inc.

Southeast Arkansas Education Service

Cooperative (SEARK)

Central Ar Area Aaa

United Way of Southeast Arkansas
Senior Corps in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

Rogers

Springdale

Stuttgart

Texarkana

Wrightsville

Primary City

Northwest Arkansas RSVP

Eoawc RSVP of Nw Arkansas

Stuttgart North Arkansas County RSVP

Greater Texarkana Ar RSVP

Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Central

Arkansas

RSVP

RSVP

RSVP

RSVP

RSVP

Number of Program Type

Participants

 1,144

 350

 415

 329

 910

Total Number of Senior Corps Volunteers 8,182

Program Name

Sponsor Organization (if different)

Office of Human Concern Inc

Economic Opportunity Agency Inc

Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce

City of Texarkana, Ar

Future Builders
AmeriCorps in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

Seniors In Poverty - Greater Texarkana

Boys and Girls Club of America

Boys and Girls Club of America

Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corporation

Seniors In Poverty - Greater Texarkana

St. Francis County Community Development

Corporation

The Learning Center, Inc. of North Little Rock

Arkansas Public Policy Panel

South Ar Regional Health Ctr Inc

St. Francis County Community Development

Corporation

Arkansas Public Policy Panel

University of Arkansas

Sponsor Organization (if different)

Literacy Council of Jefferson County

City of Texarkana Arkansas

Bella Vista Unit

North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education

Carl and Aileen McKinney

AmeriCorps VISTA Project

Arkansas State CASA Association

City of Texarkana Arkansas

St. Francis County CDC

The Learning Center Inc. of North Little Rock

Establishing Sustainable Community Groups in

Arkansas

Arkansas State CASA Association

Seniors in Poverty

South Arkansas Regional Health Center

Audubon Arkansas

Arkansas State CASA Association

St. Francis County CDC

Establishing Sustainable Community Groups in

Arkansas

North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education

Garvan Gardens, Environmental

Education/Development

Program Name

 1

 2

 4

 1

 4

 2

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 5

 8

 1

 1

 11

 1

 20

 28

# of

Members

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*State

Program Type

Altheimer

Ashdown

Bella Vista

Bella Vista

Bentonville

Brinkley

Camden

Camden

Colt

Colt

Dermott

El Dorado

El Dorado

El Dorado

Fayetteville

Fordyce

Forrest City

Gould

Harrison

Hot Springs

Primary City
AmeriCorps in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

Boys and Girls Club of America

Arkansas Children's Hospital

Arkansas Human Development Corporation

Arkansas Literacy Councils, Inc.

Arkansas Service Commission

Arkansas Voices of the Children Left Behind, Inc.

Black Community Developers, Inc

Kiwanis Activities, Inc.

St. Francis County Community Development

Corporation

The Learning Center, Inc. of North Little Rock

The Learning Center, Inc. of North Little Rock

Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative

(SEARK)

Winthrop Rockefeller Center Univ. of Arkansas

system

Sponsor Organization (if different)

Paul Bewie Boys & Girls Club

HIPPYCorps

SAFE: Arkansas

Arkansas Reads

AmeriCorps Promise Fellows

Arkansas Voices for the Children Left Behind, Inc.

Black Community Developers, Inc.

Black Community Developers, Inc.

City Year Little Rock

Future Builders, Inc.

Alternative Classroom Experience/Summer Incentive

Program

St. Francis County CDC

The Learning Center Inc. of North Little Rock

Little Rock Air Force Base Youth Center

Lonoke School District

The Learning Center Inc. of North Little Rock

Arkansas State CASA Association

Arkansas Smart Start AmeriCorps Program

Winthrop Rockefeller Center Environmental Project

Program Name

 4

 38

 2

 38

 12

 3

 1

 2

 40

 2

 10

 1

 6

 4

 9

 3

 1

 96

 51

# of

Members

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*National

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*National

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*State

Program Type

Hot Springs Village

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock A.F.B.

Lonoke

Marvell

Monticello

Monticello

Morrilton

Primary City
AmeriCorps in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

The Learning Center, Inc. of North Little Rock

Seniors In Poverty - Greater Texarkana

The Learning Center, Inc. of North Little Rock

Catholic Network of Volunteer Service

Boys and Girls Club of America

Seniors In Poverty - Greater Texarkana

Boys and Girls Club of America

Rogers Public School

Boys and Girls Club of America

St. Francis County Community Development

Corporation

Seniors In Poverty - Greater Texarkana

Seniors In Poverty - Greater Texarkana

The Learning Center, Inc. of North Little Rock

Boys and Girls Club of America

Crawford County Volunteers for Literacy

Sponsor Organization (if different)

The Learning Center Inc. of North Little Rock

City of Texarkana Arkansas

The Learning Center Inc. of North Little Rock

Heifer Ranch

City Year Greater Philadelphia

Pine Bluff Citizens Boys & Girls Club

Future Builders, Inc.

Literacy Council of Jefferson County

North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education

City of Texarkana Arkansas

Rogers

AmeriCorps Family Outreach

Boys & Girls Club of the Arkansas River Valley

St. Francis County CDC

Arkansas State CASA Association

City of Texarkana Arkansas

City of Texarkana Arkansas

The Learning Center Inc. of North Little Rock

Boys & Girls Club of Van Buren

New Heights - Soaring with Eagles

Program Name

 1

 1

 6

 12

 1

 4

 1

 9

 1

 1

 4

 33

 4

 1

 1

 4

 2

 1

 4

 10

# of

Members

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*State

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Education Awards Program

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Program Type

Mt. Home

Nashville

North Little Rock

Perryville

Phoenix

Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff

Pine Bluff

Poplar Grove

Prescott

Rogers

Rogers

Russellville

Sherwood

Springdale

Stamps

Texarkana

Tuckerman

Van Buren

Van Buren

Primary City
AmeriCorps in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

Total Number of AmeriCorps Members 575

Mid Delta Community Consortium

Mid-South Community College

Sponsor Organization (if different)

Mid Delta Community Consortium ADRDN

AmeriCorps Project

Arkansas Delta Service Corps

Mid-South Community Service Outreach

North Arkansas Partnership for Health Education

Future Builders, Inc.

Program Name

 15

 20

 15

 1

 5

# of

Members

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*National

AmeriCorps*State

AmeriCorps*VISTA

AmeriCorps*VISTA

Program Type

West Helena

West Memphis

West Memphis

Western Grove

Wrightsville

Primary City

Notes: If there are programs with identical names in separate entries, they are different grants to the same organization. If no members

are shown, either the grant is for planning or technical assistance, or enrollment data was not available at the time of printing.
Learn and Serve America in Arkansas

Information on the 2006 - 2007 program year current as of February 1, 2007

Primary City Sponsor Organization

Number of

Participants Program Type

Cove

Emerson

Fayetteville

Fayetteville

Forrest City

Gentry

Gurdon

Jonesboro

Little Rock

Little Rock

Little Rock

McGehee

McRae

Mountain Home

Ola

Quitman

Shirley

Van Buren

Van Buren

Vilonia

Van-Cove High

Emerson High School

Fayetteville High School

Woodland Junior High

Forrest City High School

Gentry High School

Cabe Middle School

Valley View Elementary/High School

Arkansas Department of Education

Central High School, Little Rock

Little Rock Central High School

Conner Jr High

Beebe Middle School

Mountain Home High School

Two Rivers School District FVS campus

Quitman Elementary/Jr High

Shirley Alternative Learning Center

Central Middle School

City Heights Elementary

Vilonia Middle School

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

K-12 School-Based

Notes:

 15

 361

 200

 40

 20

 20

N/A

 61

 755

 200

N/A

 75

 25

N/A

 351

 110

 396

 276

 960

Total Number of Learn and Serve Participants 3,865

If no participants are shown, either the grant is for planning or technical assistance, or enrollment data was not available at the

time of printing, or the organization listed is the primary grantee and the participants are listed by its subgrantees.

Presidential Freedom Scholarships: Two students from the junior or senior class in each high school in the 

United States may receive a $1000 college scholarship for outstanding leadership in service to community. 

This is a matching scholarship: $500 is provided by a local organization such as the PTA or Kiwanis and $500 

is provided by Learn and Serve America. Since 2000, more than 471 Arkansas students have received these

scholarships.
Contacts

Arkansas

Arkansas State Office

700 West Capitol St

Federal Bldg, Rm 2506

Little Rock, AR 72201-3204

(501) 324-5234 (501) 324-6949

OSims@cns.gov

Southeast Region - Charleston, SC

2231 S. Hobson Ave.

Charleston, SC 29405-2430

843-743-8600 x3008 843-743-8609

Reginald Wilson

#4 Capitol Mall

Room 402A

Little Rock, AR 72201-1013

(501) 682-1059 (501) 371-3514 

rwilson@arkedu.k12.ar.us

CNCS Headquarters

1201 New York Avenue NW, Rm 9314

Washington, DC 20005-3917

202-606-6834 202-565-2743

enash@cns.gov

PO Box 1437, Slot S230

700 S Main Street, Slot S230

Little Rock, AR 72203-1437

501-682-6724 501-682-1623

al.schneider@arkansas.gov

Albert Schneider

Elson Nash

Opal Sims

Jeffrey Biel

Arkansas Department of Education

Arkansas Service Commission

For more information about AmeriCorps and Community-based Learn and Serve programs, contact:

For more information about AmeriCorps*VISTA and Senior Corps programs, contact:

For more information about Learn and Serve America Higher Education programs, contact:

For more information about AmeriCorps*NCCC efforts, contact the regional campus:

For more information about Learn and Serve America School Based K-12 programs,contact:

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For further information, please visit www.nationalservice.org