Upon exiting service, AmeriCorps members are invited to complete the AmeriCorps Member Exit Survey (AmeriCorps MES) to provide information on their service experiences. By collecting data on member experiences, AmeriCorps and its partners can better understand how to support its members, while individuals interested in becoming a member can see the benefits of serving. Members that leave service after completing their full term and members that depart from service early both complete the exit survey. The data includes information on members’ civic-mindedness, community involvement, cultural competency, and developed life and career skills (based on the AmeriCorps Member Theory of Change) as well as measures of members’ experience and training, motivations to serve, and post-service plans.

Responses from members who began serving before they turned 18 years of age are excluded from this data. Since the start of the MES in 2015, there have been over 400,000 responses. In 2024, 43,120 surveys were completed out of 55,359, for a completion rate of 77.89%.

The dataset displays the decimal percentages of members in each program that answered with the two most positive selections of each question’s available options. For example, the available answers for Question 12 are: ‘Much less likely, Somewhat less likely, No effect, Somewhat more likely, and Much more likely’. The data selected for Question 12 thus displays the percentage of members that responded with ‘Somewhat more likely or Much more likely’, therein providing the percentage of individuals who responded favorably to the question. Please access the AmeriCorps MES Data Dictionary file in the Attachments section under About This Dataset for more information.

Note: Some members begin the survey but do not complete it. Responses from these partially complete surveys are included in the results reported here, which is why the number of responses varies question to question. The total number of finished surveys, partially completed surveys, and surveys that were never started can be found in the attachments section under "MES 2024 Total Counts."

To view a full copy of the AmeriCorps Member Exit Survey, please see the attachments section. Responses to open-ended questions are omitted from these results.