Category Archives: Stories of Service

My name is Kassie and I am an AmeriCorps Environmental Educator at the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group in Belfair, Washington.  During my service, I have revamped old and outdated educational games, spent time with boy and girl scout groups, and started our Salmon in the Classroom presentation with 4th grade classes around the Mason County […]

My name is Tammy. I am a WSC/AmeriCorps member with 2nd Harvest Food Bank in Spokane, WA. My title is Nutrition Educator, but that distinction only covers a small part of the tasks I have completed over the last nine months. When I started, I knew the basics of the basics about nutrition and had […]

This quarter, I worked hard on the Tree Coupon Program, and Grit City Trees. Tree Coupons is a tree planting incentive for Pierce County residents. This season we end up distributing almost 2,500 coupons across the county. It ended up that 939 of these coupons were redeemed amounting to 1,817 trees being planted! We also […]

My name is Amanda, and I am an AmeriCorps program instructor serving with the YMCA Earth Service Corps in the Greater Seattle Area. In my service I help empower youth to make positive changes in their schools and communities through their environmental clubs. Our end of the year celebration and awards ceremony was a great […]

My name is Raena, and I serve as the Environmental Stewardship Coordinator for the Nooksack Salmon Enhancement Association (NSEA). NSEA strives to recover salmon by engaging the community in restoration, education and stewardship. This spring season, I recruited, trained, and managed a team of ten interns that led over 600 volunteers in streamside restoration efforts […]

My name is Erica and I am an AmeriCorps Service Member serving at The Farm at Franklin Pierce Schools in Midland through the Washington Service Corps. At the farm last year we grew more than 50,000 pounds of produce for the Franklin Pierce School District, local food banks, and other community participants of the Farm. […]

My name is Kallia and I am a returning WRC member serving at Madison Elementary in Olympia. I work with children who are in Kindergarten through 5th grade in small groups throughout the day. One of my small groups consists of a before school program. I have three students in my before school program. We […]

My name is Lindsay and I am an AmeriCorps member serving at Solid Ground in Seattle through the Washington Service Corps. As a Food and Garden Youth Educator, it is my job to teach food and nutrition classes at schools and community centers that serve food insecure children. Through the past four months of my […]

My name is Tom, and I am an AmeriCorps member serving with WithinReach in Seattle. I help connect clients to resources such as Washington Apple Health (which is Washington State’s expanded Medicaid program for low-income people) and food resources (Basic Food). Many of the clients that I assist are immigrants. Immigrants also are almost 3 […]

Wallis As a restoration associate at Mountains to Sound Greenway, part of my position involves taking care of tasks in our native plant nursery. Because of an unusually large plant order and an unusually cold February, we ended up with a few thousand extra plants that we couldn’t pot up in our nursery. However, it […]