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MLK Day of Service
By: AmeriCorps Leadership at Rural Action
January 15 is a day to honor the life and legacy of one of the most prolific civil rights leaders ... Read More
Resilience and Resistance: AmeriCorps VISTA’s Reflection on National Training
By Abby Neff | AmeriCorps VISTA
In the middle of December, I attended an in-person training for AmeriCorps VISTA service members. I had never been to ... Read More
Rural Action and Solid Ground School come together to teach lessons in phenology
By Amy Nicolai, Rural Action Environmental Education AmeriCorps Member
During the 2021–’22 and 2022–’23 school years, Solid Ground School and Rural Action’s Environmental Education ... Read More
AmeriCorps and Rural Action help preserve Athens County history in Kilvert
In early April, a crew of AmeriCorps and Rural Action staff from the Zero Waste, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Forestry programs were tasked with clearing out ... Read More
Service member Mary Popa curates upcycled art exhibition
AmeriCorps VISTA Mary Popa is sharing her skills with not only her host site, Rural Action’s social enterprise Community MakerSpace, at 751 West Union ... Read More
Athens-Hocking Solid Waste District volunteer event made possible thanks to ServeOhio grant
The Athens-Hocking Solid Waste District (AHSWD) has been awarded a 2023 ServeOhio Day Project Grant to improve the counties’ only center for hard-to-recycle materials facility.
On ... Read More
From Africa to Appalachia
Local problems require global solutions. Nobody realizes this better than Darlington Mafa, of Zimbabwe, and Felician Ezekiel, of Tanzania, whom Rural Action hosted as Community ... Read More
AmeriCorps helps guide alumna’s career, ambitions
Though Kelly Love is now pursuing her Master in Environmental Studies through the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Service at Ohio University, she has ... Read More
EE Takes it to the Edge
By Amy Nicolai, AmeriCorps AORC Member
The Rural Action Environmental Education team (plus Trevor from Camp Oty’Okwa) road-tripped to the Edge of Appalachia’s Eulett Center for ... Read More
Would you like to reduce waste at your gathering with Zero Waste’s reusable dishware?
By Seth Kern, AmeriCorps Member
Do you have a family party or event coming up, and want to reduce waste? We’ve got a great way to ... Read More
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Alexandria Polanosky | Media and Communications Director | 740-677-4047 ext. 140 | alexandria@ruralaction.org