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Discover if a service year is right for you, whether you've just finished high school or college or you're looking to find your path.
What is a service year?
A service year is an opportunity to develop real-world skills through hands-on service.
Types of service years
There are over 65,000 service year opportunities in a variety of issues all across the country.
How it works
Find out how a service year can work for you in three easy steps.
A Service Year is the New Gap Year
Spend your gap year getting paid, gaining skills, and making a difference through these service year opportunities.
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Money for college
Earn a Segal AmeriCorps Education Award to pay for college or student loans with these opportunities.
Love the outdoors?
Get exposed to conservation and environmental issues with these service year opportunities.
Work with younger kids
Serve in K-12 classrooms or after school programs with these opportunities.
Boost a career in finance
Help individuals and families develop financial literacy, achieve economic security, and prepare their taxes while boosting your career in finance.
Work in Austin, TX
Explore a vibrant city while making an impact with any of these opportunities.
Paths to nonprofit careers
Help strengthen your communication, collaboration, and critical thinking skills through these opportunities.
Find what is important to you. Browse service years based on an area of focus.
Learn what it’s like to complete a service year from actual corps members.
Brie Gamer
Community HealthCorps
“I would definitely encourage my friends to do a service year. I think that it's a great opportunity to take what you've learned in school and apply to real world experience.”
Corey Benjamin
Public Allies
“Service empowered me to realize that I--we--can make a real, large, and tangible difference. We have the ability to be change agents in the world.”
Siddika Degia
Catholic Charities USA
“I do think it’s important for people to work across different backgrounds. I think our country would be a better place, because people would be open to new experiences and be able to see and hear other people’s perspectives.”
Stephen Wheadon
City Year
“This experience has changed my life in ways I could have never imagined and I am forever grateful to have done a service year.”
I served in an under-resourced middle school to help get students on track to graduation. The service year experience was challenging, but knowing that I was making an impact on the lives of others made it so empowering.
Crystal Simon
ArtistYear
“I feel like every child deserve access to the arts because they are just as important as literacy and math. Through the arts, they can learn skills like self-discipline and civic engagement. It provides them an opportunity to take a risk, step out of their shells, and allows them to explore their voice in a different way.”
Service Year Alliance works to make a year of paid, full-time service — a service year — a common expectation and opportunity for all young Americans. To advance our mission, we focus on expansion, recruitment, and impact.
With the recent investments in AmeriCorps, we are entering a new era for national service. Getting these expansions right is how we will pave a path toward our vision of one million people serving each year.
Find out how we are building support from external stakeholders to make the recent expansions of national service successful in this new era.
Using ServiceYear.org, we are modernizing the next generation's experience and aligning the field around shared recruitment efforts and data systems.
Learn how we foster collaborative approaches to demonstrate the impact of service years by lifting up exemplary programs and communities.
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