‘Unheard of’: Idaho nonprofits suddenly lose AmeriCorps volunteers, scramble to adjust

BOISE — Sydnee Reyes had gone to bed early last Sunday night to wake up at 3 a.m. Monday for her second job as a barista. Normally, after working 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. at the coffee shop, she’d head to her main position at the Foothills Learning Center as an AmeriCorps volunteer in Boise, where she educated children about the environment.

But on Monday, she awoke to a text telling her not to come on that day or any day after.

“I just thought, ‘I have to push through, this isn’t real,’” Reyes said. “I had six hours of work, and then after I got done with my shift, I just fell apart.”…

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