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Northern California Wildfires.
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Hurricane Maria.
AmeriCorps members serving with FEMA Corps also be assisted with logistics, supporting responders and providing survivor outreach and assistance — all in partnership with local AmeriCorps programs who offered services to citizens impacted by the storm.
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Hurricane Harvey.
AmeriCorps members continued to be deployed regularly to Houston and the surrounding areas to support organizations on the ground and provide critical assistance to the victims of the devastating hurricane. Working with FEMA, the Texas Division of Emergency Management, and the American Red Cross, they mucked and gutted homes and coordinated the tens of thousands of volunteers to support shelters and manage donations.
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Hurricane Irma.
These AmeriCorps members supported shelter operations and assisted the American Red Cross, Save the Children, and FEMA, among other organizations.
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Hawaii Volcanic Eruption.
The 20 young people conducted mobile needs-assessments with survivors, provided on-site registration for federal and local assistance, and conducted surveys to deliver regular information to FEMA to meet the community’s needs.
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Hurricane Katrina.
These AmeriCorps members have built or refurbished over 15,000 homes, mobilized over a half a million volunteers, and invested over 300 million dollars in Louisiana and Mississippi to support organizations and citizens of the Gulf Coast. Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi during Hurricane Katrina, recently stated, “AmeriCorps...played an outsized and critical role in the immediate- and long-term recovery from Katrina.”
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Joplin Tornado.
In the year that followed, more than 350 AmeriCorps members served in Joplin from all across the country. They removed debris, assisted homeowners with casework, ran donation warehouses, rebuilt and repaired homes, and — most of all — organized more than 75,000 volunteers.
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Hurricane Sandy.
These AmeriCorps members — including the first class of AmeriCorps NCCC members serving with FEMA Corps — cleared out more than 2,000 homes in New York and New Jersey and organized tens of thousands of volunteers. Governor Chris Christie (R) of New Jersey said, “AmeriCorps [was] an enormous help during Hurricane Sandy…[they] lifted the spirits of the people of our state.”