Summer 2026 - Weed and Seed

Spend Your Summer Impacting Children And Youth At the Weed and Seed, Oil City PA

Spend the summer providing much needed meals to families while mentoring and implementing STEM, service projects, healthy futures and outside activities for youth living in Oil City. 

Keystone SMILES is a nonprofit located in Knox which provides summer AmeriCorps (work) opportunities for schools and nonprofits helping to address unmet needs with academic support for a fun summer. 

 AmeriCorps is a national service movement that engages thousands of men and women of all ages and backgrounds in service often referred to as the domestic Peace Corps, aimed at meeting the needs in the areas of Education, Public Safety, Environment, and Human Services. 

Schedule: Monday – Friday - Full Time, Daytime Hours (occasional evening / weekend hours)

AmeriCorps Positions and Benefits - 

450 Hour Term

1. Start Date: 5/12/26 - Last Day: 8/7/26
2. Start Date: 5/19/26 - Last Day: 8/14/26

• Education Award - $1,956.35 
• Total Living Allowance - $6,300.00

300 Hour Term

     1. Start Date: 6/2/26 - Last Day: 8/7/26

     2. Start Date: 6/9/26 - Last Day: 8/14/26

• Education Award - $1,565.08
• Total Living Allowance - $4,361.54

Accepted applicants will participate in a one-day pre-service orientation their first day of service via virtual training.

Other Benefits Include (if eligible):

• 
  Federal loan forbearance
• 
  Partial Federal loan interest payment
• 
  Education Award 
• 
  Hands-on experiences building your Career Pathway Portfolio 
• 
  CPR/First Aid Certification
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  A network of new lifelong friends!
  
  
  

Summer activities are concentrated in the following areas:

• School Readiness & Success 
• Mentoring Youth through Service
• Academic support service  
• Community Strengthening through Outreach Events and Special Projects
• STEM activities and service learning

What is AmeriCorps?  

 AmeriCorps is much more than a service program. It is a movement that unites Americans to improve our neighborhoods and our lives. In communities large and small throughout America, AmeriCorps Members are taking responsibility, learning valuable skills, and helping their friends and neighbors and Getting Things Done! AmeriCorps is part of a tradition of service, and it represents America at its best - making a lasting difference while promoting the values of community, responsibility, and opportunity.  

To learn more about AmeriCorps and the benefits visit the National Recruitment website at https://americorps.gov/serve

Salary : $1,956 - $6,300