Image featured above: The Great Lakes Conservation Corps assisting the City of Marquette with storm clean up after high lake levels caused heavy damage to Lake Superior Shoreline.

The corps model has been in existence since the 1930s, and has a proven record of success across America. To understand why it works, it’s important to know its history, as well as the impact on communities that corps organizations have today. It’s easy to see why betting on the future of corps is a smart choice.

The Corps Experience

Most young people join a corps because it’s a job and they can earn some money, and it’s also a chance to get away from home, in search for something different…what they gain is much, much more.

The Critical Work of Corps

Corps are the ideal vehicle for societal change because they teach bedrock American values: personal responsibility, courage, education, and community service, while also changing lives and shaping communities.

Inspired by History

“I propose to create a civilian conservation corps to be used in simple work…more important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work” – President Franklin Roosevelt