Technical Assistance
This annual event allows field-level staff the opportunity to share best practices in the areas of Corpsmember support, project implementation, and training.
What is the Corps Rendezvous
Any Member Corps who wants to receive a capacity-building grant or work under one of TCN's cooperative agreements must undergo this process.
What is the Corps Center of Excellence Accreditation?
This data drive is essential for TCN to fulfill data requests from the White House, Federal partners, and Congressional offices.
What is the Annual Profile?
This weekly newsletter is the best place for member Corps to stay up to date on TCN, our work, and our Corps partner requests.
What is the Crewleader?
Serving as the chair of the Corps Council, this Corps Director has an extensive history in the Corps movement, including stints as Executive Director for both the Los Angeles Conservation Corps and California Conservation Corps.
Who is Bruce Saito?
Working with The Corps Network, this association established a program at Civic Works that engages Corpsmembers in a pre-apprenticeship pathway into their Department of Labor-registered apprenticeship program.
What is the National Association of Landscape Professionals (aka NALP)?
This grant opportunity provides member Corps access to AmeriCorps slots but does not include funding for Corpsmember stipends or operational support.
What is the AmeriCorps Education Award Program?
This GR coalition meets monthly and focuses on Corps' who work with non-federal partners.
What is the State and Local Projects Coalition?
This is where members of The Corps Network can access the TCN resource library, funding opportunities, AmeriCorps manual, and job posting dashboard.
What is the Member Hub on TCN's website?
This conglomerate of member Corps engages the largest number of Corpsmembers per year, hitting a high of over 4000 Corpsmembers prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Who are the USFS Job Corps Civilian Conservation Centers?
What is a Corps feasibility study?
The Corps Network's Technical Assistance Grant with the Department of Transportation provides funding for TCN to inform and engage with these entities on successful Corps partnerships.
What are State Departments of Transportation?
As an expectation of membership, Member Corps must assign a staff member to this group where they will receive advocacy alerts, updates, and requests.
What is the Government Relations Committee?
The Corps Network helps amplify original blog posts, news stories, photos and videos from member Corps on which 5 social media platforms?
What are Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, and Linkedin?
New to The Corps Network in 2021, this program is one of the few Corps run out of county government.
What is the Rockland Conservation and Service Corps?
Member Corps can engage in these two training opportunities as part of the Moving Forward Initiative
What are Corpsmember Liberation & Leadership and Sending the Right Signal?
The Corps Network's Maintenance Action Team was funded by this partner to assist small and medium-sized National Park units with identifying Corps-appropriate projects.
What is the National Park Foundation?
Passed on May 27th, 1993, this bill established a legal mechanism for Corps to partner with the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to "carry out authorized conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation projects on public lands or Indian lands".
What is the Public Lands Corps Act of 1993?
This group of Corps and TCN staff meets monthly to discuss marketing strategies, outreach tools, and general communications needs at their Corps.
Whats is the Corps Communications Working Group?
This organization is known as the first modern non-profit Corps program.
What is the Student Conservation Association?
In an effort to alleviate the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, TCN ran the first TCN Town Hall on this date. The event included a presentation from TCN partner Willis Towers Watson and a breakdown of federal agencies' COVID-19 policies.
What is March 19th, 2020?
This amount of funding per member service year is available to Opportunity Youth Service Initiative grantees should they enroll members who are in need of a high school diploma, identify as Opportunity Youth, and provide a living allowance greater than The Corps Network's minimum living allowance.
What is $19,000 per MSY?
On behalf of the membership, TCN joins advocacy coalitions that support interests related to Corps Program. This coalition works to ensure Americans of all ages have the opportunity to serve and volunteer in their communities.
What is Voices for National Service?
This kitten likes to fall asleep on Hannah T.'s arm while Hannah is working.
Who is Pops!?
Running programs such as the WILDLands Technical Trail Crew, Sequoia and Kings Canyon Conservation Corps, and Women in the Wilderness, this Corps was started in 2017 with a focus on engaging underrepresented populations in the outdoor movement.