Lead for America

The American Connection Corps (ACC) is a program of Lead For America, a national nonprofit organization focused on building a leadership force of moral, dynamic, and locally-rooted leaders committed to serving the communities they call home in every corner of this country. ACC is Lead For America’s boots-on-the-ground service corps, aimed at activating local leaders in rural and emerging communities to tackle critical, bi-partisan challenges to advance economic prosperity. Through ACC, Lead For America ensures that national service opportunities are indeed available in “every corner of this country.” Read More

• About Us
  Lead For America began in 2017 as a dorm room startup and has grown to become one of the nation’s fastest-growing nonprofits and a model national service program. To date, Lead For America has created more than 300 paid full-time Fellowships across more than 40 states and is set to be the first national service program to support leaders across all 50 states.
  
  The American Connection Corps (ACC) is Lead For America’s boots-on-the-ground service corps, aimed at activating local leaders in rural and emerging communities to tackle critical, bi-partisan challenges to advance economic prosperity. Through ACC, Lead For America ensures that national service opportunities are indeed available in “every corner of this country.”
  
  The American Connection Corps connects people to places where success is too often defined as “leaving and never coming back," building infrastructure and capacity at the local level, while cultivating the bench of leaders in rural and emerging communities across America. Bridging the digital divide is a core campaign of the American Connection Corps and is an issue that unites all ACC Members as they serve across fields related to Economic Opportunity, Health and Social Capital, and Agriculture and Natural Resources.
• Our Impact
  Lead For America is committed to building a leadership force of our nation’s most outstanding people to serve in the communities they call home, and to stitch our country back together through shared commitment to place and love of neighbor. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform and renewal have often arisen from the local level and a new generation of leadership. As a nonpartisan, 501(c)3 nonprofit, Lead For America aims to be part of the solution by cultivating a leadership force of our nation’s most outstanding young leaders, each committed to serving and building bridges in the places they call home, and stitching our country back together one community at a time. We believe that there is common ground, mutual respect, and even friendship to be found through a shared commitment to place and to service.
  
  With Lead For America's American Connection Corps Program, members deliver for rural and emerging communities. They serve in key public institutions in their local communities, bringing needed capacity, community engagement, and ultimately, hope, to ensure access to broadband, and other critical economic and social needs. As a collective, our members are making grand strides toward a connected country: one where each inhabitant - regardless of their geography or income level - will have the ability to reach new educational, health, and economic opportunities.
  
  For more details, ACC's 2023 Impact Report can be seen on our website: www.americanconnectioncorps.org/impact-report