Updates & Stories
Crews plant trees for national commemoration
Hundreds of youth from across the globe gathered at the Minneapolis Convention Center April 11-14 for the annual National Service-Learning Conference, hosted by the National Youth Leadership Council. Every year the Council plants trees in the city where they meet to commemorate the loss of participants and advocates in youth leadership work. Read More
Northeast crew cleans up Wellstone Memorial Trail
Our Northeast Minnesota crew, based in Tower, volunteered to clean up accumulated debris on the Wellstone Memorial Trail in the Virginia/Eveleth area on March 26. Read More
Unplug a Teenager
Sponsor a participant in our Summer Youth Corps and change the life of a young person. A $1,000 sponsorship will fund a teenager’s four-week experience… Read More
Where Are They Now? Hollis Emery
It might have been the chainsaw that lured Hollis Emery to northeast Minnesota to serve as a crew leader in 2010. The previous year, she had left a California law firm job to serve EarthCorps in Seattle and was hooked on the Corps experience. Read More
Calling alumni!
We are forming a committee to help us plan our alumni association. We need your ideas! Please join us to brainstorm ideas and make plans… Read More
We have moved!
On April 2 our central office moved to the Drake Building in Saint Paul ― just across the river from downtown. Our… Read More
Prairie restoration turns to tornado recovery
An Iowa field crew, dispatched to the Quivira National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas for a two-week prescribed burn, found itself in a storm shelter waiting… Read More
Conservation Corps Iowa celebrates AmeriCorps Week
Conservation Corps Iowa joined the nationwide celebration ofAmeriCorps Week with a Get out & Get Green event at McFarland Park on Saturday, March… Read More
Youth help Rebuilding Together Twin Cities
In early March, 36 Conservation Corps youth program alumni, friends and family spent a Saturday afternoon volunteering with… Read More
2012 crews hit the ground
The first few months of the year have been a flurry of activity at Conservation Corps with the hiring, orientation and training of… Read More