AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program) enlists the skills, and talents, and experience of persons aged 55 and older to meet a wide range of community challenges. AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers recruit and manage other volunteers, participate in environmental projects, mentor and tutor children, deliver meals to the homebound, help adults maintain independence in their homes and respond to natural disasters, among many other activities. Since 1971, AmeriCorps Seniors RSVP, one of the largest volunteer efforts in the nation for people 55 and over, has matched older adults who are willing to help with local organizations on the front lines of meeting community needs. Volunteers receive accident, personal liability, and excess automobile insurance as well as community recognition. Today AmeriCorps serves more than 5 million individuals of all ages and backgrounds to help meet local needs through a wide array of service opportunities. These include projects in six priority areas: disaster services, economic opportunity, education, environmental stewardship, healthy futures, and veterans and military families through AmeriCorps's core programs: AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors.
