Spring photos just in time for Mother’s Day! Would you like to make an automatic contribution to JSC while getting some beautiful spring photos? Kelly from Light Creative, LLC is donating a portion of her sales from all photography mini-sessions in Chapel Hill on April 27 to Johnson Service Corps. Family photos make great Mother’s […]
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Alumni Spotlight — Jessi Wightman
After serving with JSC for 2015-16, I’m actually working on my third service year! I live in Minneapolis and I am serving as an AmeriCorps volunteer in a middle school. My focus is to support students learning English as a secondary language in their content classes. The middle schoolers make me laugh every day, and […]
Our Partners at the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice
To build a more just and inclusive world, the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice engages a diversity of communities to lift up the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, a 20th century human rights activist, lawyer, feminist, poet, and Episcopal priest with deep southern roots. As an African American, […]
Meet Emerson
Almost a year out of Wellesley College, where I spent the last four years, I find myself reflecting on my journey to JSC and what the year has been like so far. I have to admit that JSC is one of those things that I reflect on and think, “if you had told me four […]
Alumni Spotlight — Sarah Wolff
I started in JSC in 2003, which amazingly was 16 years ago. I don’t want to think too much about the fact that today’s Corps Members were in preschool when I was going through this experience! Like me, the program has changed a lot in those years: The program has a larger group of young […]
Our Partners at the Compass Center
Our partners at the Compass Center for Women and Families help all people navigate their journey to self-sufficiency, safety, and health. They empower individuals and promote equal access to opportunity regardless of gender or economic status. Additionally, Compass Center is the only Orange County resource for comprehensive domestic violence crisis services. Compass Center is closely […]
Meet Ann
I arrived at the Carrboro house after only visiting the Triangle, one time, a month earlier. Little did I know that Carrboro/Chapel Hill would quickly become a second home. Before beginning Johnson Service Corps, I had spent three years as a Research Assistant, and I felt drawn to gain experience in direct service work versus […]
Alumni Spotlight — Soteria Shepperson
Walking into the auditorium at N.C. State for an event held to “Discuss North Carolina’s unequal treatment of students based on family income, and how we can do better” I intently listened. After hearing statistics of what I have experienced both directly and indirectly, I readjusted my posture several times hoping my “inner voice” would […]
Our Partners at EDCI
The East Durham Children’s Initiative (EDCI), a place-based nonprofit located in East Durham, has offered an ecosystem of data-driven academic interventions, out-of-school programming and family supports since its creation in 2011. Working with more than 35 partners, EDCI focuses its efforts within a 120-block area identified by the state as a particularly vulnerable neighborhood of […]
Meet Emily J.
When I was considering what to do after graduating from UNC-Chapel Hill in May of 2018, Johnson Service Corps was not really at the top of my list – and I mean literally, because when I listed out the Episcopal Service Corps sites I was interested in, JSC was at the very bottom. I was […]