AFNHA National Service Project Support

Applications are open now for partners seeking AmeriCorps national service support for projects being executed between September, 2025 and August, 2026

Full time slots are available starting September 3, 2025 for “one year” positions to support eligible projects in alignment with AFNHA themes and mission. Shorter term slots may be available later in the year, or in combination with other short term requests by other project partners. Reach out to ameriCorps@afnha.org to discuss.

More information and an outline of the application can be found HERE

Step one will be to fill out your Profile to tell us a little about your organization and project(s). We will review and, if we feel you have an eligible project(s), we will invite you to submit your full application. Each organization submits one organizational application, but may apply for multiple projects and members for the organization.

To Qualify as an AFNHA AmeriCorps project site:

• Sites must be non-profit or governmental organizations within the 16 West Virginia AFNHA counties.

• Projects must be in alignment with AFNHA themes and mission supporting asset improvement or educational stewardship related to :

  • Environmental conservation , and / or

  • Community cultural heritage development

• Projects and Members may not:

  • Displace or provide general staff duties to an organization.

  • Attempt to influence legislation.

  • Organize or engage in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.

  • Assist, promote, or deter union organizing.

  • Engage in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office

  • Participate in, or endorse, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials

  • Engage in religious instruction, conduct worship services, provide instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, construct or operate facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintain facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engage in any form of religious proselytization

  • Provide a direct benefit to a business organized for profit, a labor union, a partisan political organization, a nonprofit organization that fails to comply with the restrictions contained in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 except that nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent participants from engaging in advocacy activities undertaken at their own initiative, an organization engaged in the religious activities described in paragraph (g) of this section, unless AmeriCorps assistance is not used to support those religious activities, conduct a voter registration drive or using AmeriCorps funds to conduct a voter registration drive, providing abortion services or referrals for receipt of such services.

• Project sites are responsible for

• Member supervision, including recruiting, and reporting, 

• Project fee:

  • Full Time (1300 hours) 12 month projects - $6,500*

  • Half Time (650 hours) - $3,500*

  • Quarter Time (350 hours) - $2,000*

  *Includes Partnership Fee for the last quarter of 2025 and all of 2026

• Contribute In-kind match reporting of project Supervisor time and project expenses.