$16.6M in expenses

The americorps program provides funding for nonprofits and public agencies to develop and support americorps members. Full and part-time members spend one year performing intensive service to meet critical needs in community and economic development, education, disaster recovery and relief, environment, public safety, health and nutrition, human needs, and housing. In the 2023-24 program year, MSA supported 31 americorps programs and 4 americorps planning grants. More than 1,146 americorps members served, investing over 1,026,700 hours of service, supporting nearly 52,682 direct beneficiaries, and engaging over 7,378 additional volunteers.

$966K in expenses

In 2023-24, MSA had 22 commonwealth corps members serving at 12 host site partners across the state, providing more than 28,500 hours of service to strengthen communities, build organizational capacity, increase volunteerism, and positively impact massachusetts residents. Through their capacity building efforts, commonwealth corps members recruited or managed over 2,000 community volunteers to contribute more than 23,000 hours of service, leveraged approximately $668,000 of cash or in-kind support, and supported more than 4,800 new beneficiaries in receiving services.

$435K in expenses

With the support of the volunteer generation fund grant, MSA increased the ability of nonprofit organizations in massachusetts to utilize volunteers effectively, thus increasing their capacity to serve clients. MSA assisted nonprofits in building their infrastructure through (1) deep and intensive capacity building with 11 organizations through the delivery of the service enterprise initiative; (2) focused skills-based training on best practices in volunteer management; (3) mini-grants to 25 organizations to support volunteer engagement activities and capacity-building grants to organizations that engage volunteers to support youth programming or youth in service-learning. Overall, through these grants, organizations engaged over 2,000 volunteers. Zations engaged over 2,000 volunteers.