Getting Things Done for America

On Thursday morning at our RECAP event, CANI’s AmeriCorps members will be making their pledge. It is as follows:

AmeriCorps Pledge 

I will get things done for America –

to make our people safer, smarter, and healthier.

I will bring Americans together to strengthen our communities.

Faced with apathy, I will take action.

Faced with conflict, I will seek common ground.

Faced with adversity, I will persevere.

I will carry this commitment with me this year and beyond.

I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done.

This is our first group of AmeriCorps members, and we are tremendously excited to bring this program to northeast Indiana. It is the culmination of about two years of work with our partners United Way of Allen County and Lutheran Social Services. We have been working hard on this for so long because we know that AmeriCorps will help make our community stronger and will help us get things done.

Our members will be working in various areas within CANI, including our Head Start program and Covering Kids and Families program. They will be helping us in our Community Economic Development programs as well as helping us increase our organizational capacity to serve people. They will also be working in programs at Lutheran Social Services and helping with projects at United Way. They will be serving families who need help. They give us yet another resource to accomplish the work of our organizations.

On Sept 20, CANI Corps members worked at
Community Harvest Food Bank on their first of
many service projects that will be conducted
throughout the year. 

I am deeply impressed by the service mindset of our members. They are focused on helping people. They are dedicated to strengthening northeast Indiana and the organizations they will be working with. I know that we will all learn a great deal from these individuals over the coming year.

I am particularly excited because this is just our first year, and we are looking at this project as just the first step in growing the program and adding many more partner organizations in the coming years. We are getting our feet wet this year, we are learning a lot about the program and how to administer it. In coming years we hope to add more member slots, so the impact of these incredible individuals can spread throughout our community. I have already been approached by many different organizations desiring their own AmeriCorps members.

The potential we have both now and in the future is truly exciting and we welcome our inaugural group of members into the CANI family.