The Bonner AmeriCorps Program at Concord University

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Enroll in Bonner AmeriCorps

The Bonner AmeriCorps program at Concord University provides financial resources to students wishing to complete service activities in their community.

Are you already engaged in service individually or through a scholarship program, work-study position, service fraternity, church or mission group, club or organization? Enroll today to get a financial award for your hard work for our communities!

Think you'll need some help paying back those student loans or paying for graduate school? Do you also have a desire to impact your community? Enroll today to earn an education award through service to your community!

Any eligible Concord University student can apply to this program, including (but not limited to) Bonner Scholars!

Students in the Bonner AmeriCorps program at Concord University will earn an education award of $2,362.50 after successful completion of 900 hours of service to their communities within a period of 2 years. Bonner AmeriCorps members can earn these hours at a variety of agencies or by taking on their own initiative to create a new community-oriented service or outreach program. The education award may be used to pay for current or future educational study or to repay qualified student loans.

AmeriCorps is a national, federally-funded program under the Corporation for National & Community Service. Some refer to AmeriCorps as the “domestic Peace Corps.” Each year, more than 75,000 Americans participate in service through AmeriCorps meeting critical needs in education, the environment, public safety, homeland security, and more. Half a million Americans have participated since 1994 working in nonprofit agencies, public agencies, and faith-based agencies in both direct and indirect service to their communities.

Find out more at http://www.americorps.gov/

The Bonner Program is designed to transform not only the students who are directly supported by the program, but also the campus and community in which they serve and learn and develop leadership skills within students.

The Bonner Program consists of more than 2,500 students each year in an intensive an intensive experience of community service and leadership development. Currently, the Bonner Program works with hundreds of local, regional, and national organizations address every type of social need. The students tutor, clean up, organize, create, write, manage, talk with, build and otherwise serve in so many ways. They work in both small, rural towns and large, urban cities. The Bonner Program works with private and public colleges, small and large, two-year and four-year.

Find out more at http://www.bonner.org/communities.