Corpsmember Spotlight: YouthBuild

As this year’s YouthBuild term draws to an end, we would like to take the opportunity to share the journey of one remarkable young Corpsmember, Eloy Martinez. I sat down with Eloy last week and he was kind enough to share his thoughts on the program. During his term, Eloy completed over 450 service hours, [...]

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Corpsmembers of the Month: May

We’re back again with our new Corpsmember of the Month Awards for May! Each community meeting we select a Corpsmember from each crew who demonstrated outstanding work over the last month. Our Corpsmembers of the Month are: Rueben, Energy Crew Kamen, Water Crew Matthew, ACLC Deondre, YouthBuild These four Corpsmembers continue to work hard and [...]

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Leadership Council Elections

At the beginning of each term, we give Corpsmembers the opportunity to nominate and elect their peers to MHYC’s Leadership Council. This is a group made up entirely of Corpsmembers to act as a liaison between staff members and the crews. Leadership Council works to implement policy changes, host and coordinate events like Career Day and our Halloween party [...]

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Corpsmembers of the Month

Every month at our Community Meeting, we recognize one Corpsmember from each crew as Corpsmember of the Month. The winners of this award are chosen by their own crews as someone who has exhibited hard work and dedication, promoted a positive Corps culture and has gone above and beyond during the last month. By giving this [...]

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From Peace Corps to AmeriCorps: A Journey of Service

After saying goodbye to my new family in Macedonia and receiving my certificate for completing my 27-month term of Peace Corps service in Macedonia, I felt relieved, proud and anxious for what was to come upon my arrival back in America. I had my resume, cover letter, and references all ready to go out and [...]

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Reflections on MHYC: A New Perspective

One of our newest Corpsmembers, Jackie Wolfe, joined Energy Crew in January. We recently asked her what she thought about MHYC so far and this is what she had to say: This first month of our term has gone by quite quickly, actually. The first two weeks of orientation seemed slow, but once we made [...]

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Corpsmember Spotlight

Our spring term is well underway and our new crews are hitting the ground running to conserve water and energy around Colorado. We have 14 new ACLCs, 7 new Energy Corpsmembers, 2 new Water Corpsmembers and we are thrilled to have all of them on board. We recently put together a video introducing a few [...]

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