Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Los Angeles has been awarded three grants from the federal Corporation for National & Community Service. The grants, totaling $4.4 million, will recruit 119 AmeriCorps members ­— 94 of which will be stationed throughout Los Angeles.

“Those who answer the call to serve will be doing transformative work from neighborhoods stretching from Watts to Pacoima,” Garcetti said. “Their dedication will make a critical difference in the lives of students, families and whole communities.”

The first of the three programs, Operation AmeriCorps, will recruit 15 AmeriCorps members through the mayor’s office to be stationed at FamilySource and YouthSource centers in Los Angeles.

Those centers, operated by community-serving nonprofits, will support 336 students. The recruits will also help build capacity at partner agencies. The Operation AmeriCorps grant to Los Angeles is $710,811 over three years.

The second program, the LA Promise Corps, will integrate 54 AmeriCorps members into the Los Angeles Promise Neighborhood initiative, led by the Youth Policy Institute. Promise Corps AmeriCorps members will be placed in the 19 Promise Neighborhood schools in Pacoima and Hollywood, serving as full-time English and math tutors in 19 elementary, middle and high schools. The grant to Youth Policy Institute is $1,749,210.

The third program, Promise Zones AmeriCorps, will establish a partnership between Los Angeles and Philadelphia. It is the first joint grant between two federal Promise Zones. Fifty full-time AmeriCorps members will be placed in struggling schools in the Los Angeles and Philadelphia Promise Zones to serve as College & Career Ambassadors and help prepare students for post-secondary options after high school. Each year, AmeriCorps members will support 1,440 students in their pursuit of post-secondary education, and members will exchange best practices between the two cities in a program designed to help disadvantaged high school students graduate and begin college or careers.