Talk:AmeriCorps

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Much work is needed on the list of AmeriCorps organizations. AmeriCorps National Direct, AmeriCorps NCCC, and AmeriCorps Promise Fellows have none listed yet, and the other two sections are incomplete. I'd appreciate any help with it. -- LGagnon

Do you want to make those subpages, or just sections of the main page? I'm an NCCC applicant this year, so I can probably come up with at least a few paragraphs summarizing that branch of the program. --MC MasterChef 20:57, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I'm not really sure where to go with this article at the moment. I guess keeping the NCCC info in here is ok. -- LGagnon 07:20, Mar 20, 2005 (UTC)

I don't think that Wikipedia is the place to be listing every single AmeriCorps program. There are so many, and they're constantly changing. It would be far better to give links to some example programs and provide multiple links to the Corporation's website. As a current VISTA, I'll try to gather together some more info regarding the Corporation itself and the history of the program. treebeard

[edit] Average age of Americorps participants?

I'm 36 and wanting to spend a year trailblazing or doing some other outdoorsy environmentally focused activity, and Americorps sounded perfect until someone suggested most participants would be just out of college. I really don't want to be the grandma on the team. I'm already feeling old and freaky for not being married; I kind of wanted to be surrounded by others in my age group who are like minded about the environment and being physically active and wanting to make a positive difference. Being surrounded by kids just starting out in life I think is going to just be depressing, given I haven't really moved forward since age 22! Without going into psychology, anyone have some factoids about average age of participants in these programs (I know there are the occassional 85 year olds, but I'm talking average, or mean, not the rare exception!)

NCCC is only for 18-24 year-olds. I know plenty of older partcipants work with state and local programs. Call 202-606-5000 for more info.

[edit] NCCC And Weasel Words

First, this subsection has been peppered with weasel words in the past year or so. For those who don't understand what constitutes "weasel words" per Wikipedia standards, feel free to check here --> Weasel Words.

The OMB is not the Whitehouses "own" , as intimated in the article. The OMB is entirely independent, as much as certain people would like to blame "Bush" for everything under the sun. The whole "praised by some conservatives" thing is weasel-wordery to a tee, in addition to numerous other examples of WW's. Instead of editing out all of the NPOV sort of stuff, I thought i'd start a talk on the discussion page about this first. There is an undeniable political bend to most (but not all) NCCC alums, thus it is extremely easy for NPOV sort of things to slip by since most people seeking out the article will be like-minded. I think we should at least hold some heights and standards by eliminating the partisanship and simply report facts as they are. --FactsAndHonesty 09:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

OK, someone cleaned it up. Weasel Words tag appropriately removed. --FactsAndHonesty 22:41, 12 December 2006 (UTC)