In 2025, Service Year Alliance asked AmeriCorps Alums: "How did your service year impact your life?" The responses highlight the many ways that AmeriCorps has created long-lasting and life-changing impact for alums and the communities they served.

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How We Support Service Year Alums

Service Year Alliance is prioritizing three bodies of work related to service year alums: data, communications, and elevating alum voices.

Data

We need better data on who serves, where they serve, and what they do after their service year. The entire service year field is lacking critical information that can support their programs, recruitment, and storytelling efforts. Service Year Alliance will work closely with state service commissions and service year programs to connect their current corps members and recent alums to ServiceYear.org and the AmeriCorps Alums LinkedIn group, building connections across generations of individuals who served and building a collective story of impact.

2025 Service Year Alums Survey: As a service year alum, your experience holds incredible value. That’s why we’re conducted a national Service Year Alums Survey in 2025. A full report is coming soon.

Communication

Service Year Alliance is committed to engaging with sector leaders to collect the most relevant and helpful resources and will share this information in quarterly communications with our growing network of alums through our newsletter, "The Alums Corner: The Scoop After Service". 

Leadership & Representation

After acquiring AmeriCorps Alums in 2018, Service Year Alliance created the Alumni Chapter Steering Committee — a group of nine diverse service year alums who represented the voices and perspectives of alums and alums chapters across the country. The Alumni Chapter Steering Committee helped set our alums strategy; we are grateful for their contributions to our mission and to service year alums nationwide.

The Service Year Alliance Leadership Council Alums Committee, which includes several members of the Alumni Chapter Steering Committee, is a bipartisan and cross-sector collaborative of select service year alums who act as advisers and thought leaders by bringing service year alums voices and perspectives to Service Year Alliance’s work. We will engage with these leaders on a regular basis, and they will inform and advise our work with service year alums and our broader efforts.

Get involved as a service year alum! 

Service Year Alums Awards
Service Year Alliance is thrilled to announce the inaugural Service Year Alums Awards! These awards are designed to recognize and celebrate service year alums who have gone above and beyond in bridging divides across lines of difference and fostering positive change during their service years and beyond. This is an opportunity to showcase your contributions through service, highlight the positive impacts you've made, and inspire future generations of service year members.

Learn more about the Service Year Alums Awards and how to apply here.

Segal Leadership Award
Each year Service Year Alliance seeks to recognize emerging leaders for the AmeriCorps Alums Segal Leadership Award, which also grants them entry into the lifelong Segal Fellowship network. Learn more about the Segal Leadership Award and how you can apply at AmeriCorps Alums Segal Leadership Award! 

Share your story with us
We know that service year alums are the greatest champions of national service. Service year alums frequently credit their service year experience with helping them find their current career path, making an impact in their communities, and more! Join us in our mission to make a service year a common expectation for all young Americans by sharing your story with us at [email protected].