Program Impact Awards - For proven, results oriented impact in a community in the categories of small, mid-size, and rural domestic programs.

• Small Program - Jubilee Urban Service Programs

• Med-size Program - CivicSpark

• Rural Program - MARESA AmeriCorps

Best Advocate for Hiring Service Year Alumni - For an individual that has gone above and beyond to champion hiring service year alumni at their place of employment.

• Lisa Hamler-Fugitt of Ohio Association of Foodbanks

Higher Education Award for Innovative Campus-Corps Partnership - For best partnership between a local corps program and an institution of higher education.

• Green Iowa AmeriCorps with Maharishi University of Management

Innovation Award - For an individual or program with a newly developed service year model that has the potential to solve a problem at scale and create powerful social change.

• Education Tomorrow

Excellence in Service Year Opportunities for Veterans - For the organization whose service year model best provides veterans with meaningful work in their communities.

• The Mission Continues

• Vet Corps of Washington State

Service Year Story Awards

• Lessons Learned Through Service - For a recently graduated corps member’s story about the lessons that they learned while serving.

  • Ben Beckley, OneStar Foundation at the Dallas Zoo

  • Alicia, City Year New York

• Faith & Service - For a corps member’s story about the relationship between faith & service experience during their service year.

  • Ariel Goodman, Avodah

  • Laura Coyt Zavala, Public Allies

• Military to Civilian Service - For a veteran corps member’s story that best exemplifies the relationship between military and civilian service.

  • Kevin Fath, Army Reserve & Returned Peace Corps Volunteer

  • Becky Patterson, Navy, Student Veterans of America AmeriCorps VISTA, and The Mission Continues Fellow

• Why I Chose a Service Year - For a recently graduated service year corps member’s story about why they chose to do a service year.

  • Chris Bishop, GRID Alternatives SolarCorps

  • Ankhasia Lewis, Flint Community Schools Corps