On July 23, 2024, the Biden-Harris Administration announced Energy Communities AmeriCorps, a new project that will engage 150 full-time AmeriCorps members serving with the VISTA program in advancing locally designed economic development, workforce readiness, and environmental remediation plans in energy communities as they gain skills and experience for good-paying clean energy and climate resilience jobs.
AmeriCorps and the Energy Communities AmeriCorps project sponsor Conservation Legacy are recruiting now for positions starting in October in nine federally-designated energy communities in Appalachian Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, the Illinois Coal Basin, Four Corners region, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wyoming, Virginia, and Southeast Montana. More than $12.5 million is available to support the project, which will run for three years and start in Fall of 2024.
For more information about the program and the application process, please click here.