AmeriCorps in Your Community

AmeriCorps is a program of the Corporation for National and Community Service. Local AmeriCorps members Jordan Griffis and Kathy Patelidas are partnered with Hands on Coastal Georgia, an affiliate of Hands on Georgia. The mission of the Hands on Georgia AmeriCorps Program is to build communities by creating stable supportive relationships between community members, service organizations, AmeriCorps members, and service recipients. In Coastal Georgia, AmeriCorps members serve both Glynn and McIntosh counties. They are largely responsible for volunteer recruitment, training and leadership development.

Kathy, a McIntosh resident, serves on the Darien Chamber of Commerce and is currently working on establishing the chamber’s first-ever Ambassador Program. The purpose of the program is to generate new ideas and promote local businesses, specifically by attending new business ribbon-cuttings and ‘Business After-Hours Events’.

Jordan, a Glynn county native, is currently partnered with Communities In Schools, a non-profit organization whose mission is to increase graduation rates and decrease drop-out rates in the Glynn County School system. Together they are designing ‘Banking on Success’, a program where local bank employees tutor and mentor local 9th grade students once a week.

For more information about the AmeriCorps program or the service that the members are providing in both counties, please feel free to contact HOCG.