Welcome to KEYS Service Corps, an education-based AmeriCorps program located in the heart of downtown Pittsburgh, PA- the most livable & least expensive city in the country!

We are currently accepting applications for Summer, 2010 Program and the 2010-2011 Full-year Program

Introduction to KEYS Service Corps

Youth participants receive their first paycheck from their summer employment program.

Our members are placed with a variety of schools, after-school programs, community-based organizations, and faith-based organizations.  While serving with these sites, you’ll have the opportunity to work one-on-one or with small groups of school-aged youth.  The youth with whom we work are typically between Kindergarten-12th grade- although we also partner with some programs working with older youth who are still working toward their GEDs. 

A lot of our youth have some big needs and we need some people with big hearts, big spirits, infinite patience, and a good sense of humor to stand up to the challenges that are thrown your way. 

Working with our youth is never boring.  You could start your day greeting youngsters in the hallways as they tumble bleary-eyed and yawning into a new day of learning and fun.  Or, you could start your day with a young man or woman who just lost a loved one to the street. 

You could find yourself cutting out paper animals for a craft project, digging up a vacant lot to turn it into an urban garden, working alongside gang members to renovate an abandoned house into an art studio, painting house numbers on the apartment doors of a housing community, helping kids rehearse their lines for the big end-of-the-year talent showcase.. who knows? 

Whatever you’ll end up doing with us, you'll know you’re making a difference in the life of a young man or woman.  You could be the first person who looks them in the eye and says “I believe in you”. 

And you can do it with KEYS Service Corps.  We need good people.

KEYS Service Corps believes in strength through diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age, disability, sex, or sexual orientation.

KEYS Service Corps is a drug-free workplace environment.

Smithfield Street Bridge at night.  KEYS Service Corps’ home office is located at the foot of the bridge at 1 Smithfield Street.

KEYS Service Corps and the Corporation for National and Community Service programs...

are available to all without regard to race, color, national origin, disability, age, gender, sexual orientation, religion, political affiliation, or other non-merit factors. Anyone believing he or she has been subjected to discrimination on these groups by the Corporation for National and Community Service, AmeriCorps, or one of its grantees may contact our Office of Civil Rights and Inclusiveness at (202) 606-7503 or email at eo@cns.gov.