Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) to provide supplemental funding to address the economic impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. Through formula allocated AmeriCorps funds, numerous state service commissions have prioritized starting new, and expanding existing, climate and environmental resilience service year programs, often in partnership with other state agencies. The following models could be replicated in other states — with support from federal and state stakeholders — and stand ready to partner and provide the people power for projects implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Inflation Reduction Act.