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Serve Minnesota seeks $4.5 million from LCCMR to place 150 AmeriCorps members statewide
Summary
Serve Minnesota and Conservation Corps Minnesota & Iowa presented a proposal to place 150 AmeriCorps members over three years in partner organizations across the state to expand environmental stewardship and workforce development; commissioners asked about federal funding risk and program scalability.
Serve Minnesota and Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa asked the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources on July 9 to fund a three-year, $4.5 million project that would place 150 AmeriCorps members in community partner organizations statewide to provide natural-resources and resilience work.
The proposal, presented by Julia Kwanyard, CEO of Serve Minnesota, and Nalani McCutcheon, executive director of Conservation Corps Minnesota and Iowa, would fund 50 members per year for three years. McCutcheon described training the crews in chainsaw work,…
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