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Project Conserve Launches 2019-2020 Term

Thirty-one AmeriCorps Project Conserve members started their terms on Tuesday, September 3rd. The four-day AmeriCorps Orientation was hosted by Rockbrook Camp for Girls in Brevard,...

Summer of Service: Passing On the Gift

Alexla Perez-Sanchez first discovered the beauty and peacefulness of nature in Summer of Service. “It’s soul changing,” she says.

AmeriCorps Stories: Planting Seeds

By Jessie Kerr. Jessie is serving with AmeriCorps Project Conserve, a program of Conserving Carolina, as the Environmental Education Associate with Foothills Equestrian Nature Center...

A Summer Working in Nature

Ana Martinez wanted to be more outdoorsy. She knew Summer of Service would mean more time outside. It paid. And it would help her get ready for college. But she didn’t go for it, at first. “I was shy,” she says.

Aspiring Wildlife Biologist Finds Community in Summer of Service

Jason Brandyburg joined Conserving Carolina’s Summer of Service in its inaugural year. He had learned of the opportunity through his professor in the Henderson County...

A Summer of Service

Five young adults give and grow through Conserving Carolina’s new community development initiative

Pollinators Without Borders

“It helps to tickle the toes,” says Kate Lis as she holds up a milkweed plant and works to loosen up its compact root system...