Formerly the Crisis Ministry of Mercer County, Arm in Arm provides resources such as food and financial support to individuals and families in the surrounding community who are facing significant financial challenges. Alongside existing staff members at Arm in Arm, AmeriCorps members assist the clients of Arm in Arm to welcome more than 4,000 families to their food pantries, work with 600 at-risk families to prevent homelessness, and offer on-the-job training and job search assistance.

Mercer Street Friends honors the equality of all people and strives for a just, prosperous and peaceful society for all. This organization responds to the needs of the community to build alliances that will have the most meaningful impact in addressing issues of poverty. Since 2006, Mercer Street Friends has been providing a High School Equivalency Exam preparation program for New Jersey residents ages 16 and older with the goal of assisting students achieve a basic education to them towards post-secondary education and successful employment.

The Trenton Area Soup Kitchen's mission is to feed those who are hungry in the Trenton area and offer programs to encourage self-sufficiency and improve the quality of life of its patrons. As a part of TASK's larger goals to promote self-sustainability and success for members of the Trenton community, the Adult Education Program assists TASK patrons to achieve their academic goals. This program provides one-on-one tutoring and individualized curriculum to meet the academic needs of a student. The SHARE project is another separate program within TASK that helps increase the economic opportunities of participants by building their self esteem and offering them the opportunity to learn life skills such as anger management and working with others as well as other tangible marketing skills such as social media and other computer skills, and methods of commination and self-expression.

HomeWorks Trenton is a community-based, after-school boarding program providing academic and social-emotional enrichment activities to supplement the public school system, to empower women, and to build community leaders. Boarding school has proved to be an ideal to be a '24-hour-day' learning environment for people of all backgrounds. We want to make boarding school an accessible educational model: a safe place to take risks and have a supportive community that aims to grow in social, emotional and academic ways.

Founded in 1855, The College of New Jersey strives to be a national exemplar to educate those who seek to sustain and advance the communities in which they live. Through the Bonner Institute, TCNJ fulfills its civic mission by engaging students, faculty and staff in service activities through the Center for Community Engaged Learning and Research (CELR). From 2008-2013, TCNJ was named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll and received the Carnegie Classification for Community Engagement in 2015. AmeriCorps Members serving out of TCNJ utilize campus resources to further promote a campus culture of community engagement in the city of Trenton under the issue-areas of education, economic opportunity, and food security.