Cap Corps provides the following to volunteers:

  • Room and Board (a place to live and money for food)
  • Health Care (insurance plus out-of-pocket expenses)
  • $100 monthly stipend domestic/$50 monthly stipend international
  • Transportation costs related to work assignment and program
  • Relocation at end of service commitment
  • End of service bonus
  • Retreats and Spiritual Direction
  • AmeriCorps Education Award (up to $5250 for student loans or tuition)
  • Forbearance available for most student loans during year of service
  • Job training and experience
  • Connection to network of Capuchin Franciscans and their partners in ministry

Orientation to the service experience includes training in anti-racism work, conflict resolution, community building, Franciscan spirituality and theology, servant leadership and self-care.

All of the basic needs are met during Cap Corps: physical (rent, food, health care), mental (training, reflection), and spiritual (retreats, community, spiritual direction).

 

The opportunity to explore spirituality both in community life and through spiritual direction and retreats offered during the volunteer year is an important component to the Cap Corps experience. 

  

Ministry opportunities available in urban education, social services, community development, agriculture and sustainability environmental education, health care, legal services, Latino ministry, pastoral and youth ministry.  This experience can be a valuable way to get job experience or explore a potential career path. 

 

Cap Corps volunteers are connected to a network of Capuchin Franciscans and their partners in ministry who are attending to basic human needs and promoting justice throughout the Midwest and Latin America.