Please also join us in welcoming Abigail Dustin to our team at Sheep Hill as our Community Engagement Coordinator. Abigail is serving with us this year through the TerraCorps program using her amazing artistic skill, community organizing capacity, and general good cheer to strengthen our connection to you, our community.
TerraCorps cultivates an ecosystem of people and organizations that center community land ownership, access, and stewardship to support a diversity of interests that benefit human health and environmental sustainability. We value the power of local nonprofits to best understand and serve their communities. Our goal is to help them succeed by providing them access to the AmeriCorps national service model to build organizational capacity.
TerraCorps partners with a network of 40+ nonprofits in Massachusetts and Rhode Island focused on community needs related to local land conservation and sustainable agriculture. These partners act as service sites for a new cohort of up to 60 AmeriCorps service members annually. Service members are paired with a site supervisor who provides guidance and mentorship while they learn to manage community programs and projects over an 11-month (August – July), 1,700-hour service term.