Roll up your sleeves.

Vermont Youth Conservation Corps has been cultivating leaders since 1985. Our programs offer paid, outdoor service experiences for people ages 15 and up. Corps Members build skills in conservation, agriculture and leadership while improving the health of Vermont’s water, forests, working lands and outdoor recreation infrastructure. VYCC is a nonprofit organization with a mission to take action and build community by working and learning together with the land.

Since 1985
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Join Us

Take Action. Build Community. Care for the Land. Get Paid.
Are you 15 or older, looking for a job you’ll never forget? Join VYCC to work outdoors in summer (and spring/fall) positions. We can’t wait to meet you!

Provide people with the resources they need to be safe and comfortable, and they will be driven by their own interests and motivation to learn. I’m shaping my ideas of leadership. This is my opportunity. I love it.

– Jing, she/her, Conservation Member & Leader

Support our work

Create paid service experiences for young adults. Support healthier forests and water across Vermont. Improve food access across northern Vermont. And so much more. Your generosity is what makes our work–and its impact–possible!

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Skills and Service

Our farming and conservation projects not only offer valuable training and skills for Crews—they’re also acts of service.

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An illustration shows ACC members working to restore riparian vegetation while nearby birds look on.

VYCC in Audubon Magazine

The article, “The American Climate Corps Puts a Fresh Spin on the New Deal” spotlights our VYCC crews! 

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New Projects = New Skills

As Conservation crews headed out to project sites this season, they brought fresh training and new skills along.

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Featured Projects

I joined VYCC because I knew it would open up opportunities in the future, I got to work outside, and work with an organization trying to make a difference.

– Jack, he/him, Conservation Member & Leader