AmeriCorps volunteers in San Francisco are experiencing uncertainty due to a $400 million funding cut impacting numerous nonprofits nationwide. Volunteers like Jaden De La Cruz, who worked with students at Mission Graduates, had planned for a second year of service but are now left without options. Recovery efforts have led to a restoration of some funding, yet many service organizations remain apprehensive about future volunteer engagement. The situation is exacerbated by ongoing federal court decisions regarding AmeriCorps funding and a general hesitation among volunteers to return after such instability.
A lot of people are probably not going to come back, because they had to move on and they had to figure out their next job, and they had to figure out where they're going to go.
This felt like a very cool network. I was counting on the possibility of staying on for a second year, but the cuts completely terminated Plan B for me.
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