Pros
The other Americorps members you'll meet serving as an Americorps member yourself will be a really awesome experience.
Cons
If you make the mistake of serving here, prepare to find the things about your specific area of focus that interest you (and ultimately make you happy) and zero in on those aspects on your own as you'll get no guidance or encouragement from staff and managers who are either actively two-faced or too busy pushing through the organization's branding agenda to teach and mentor you as an Americorps member. If you're lucky enough to serve in the field as a site supervisor you *may*, you *MAY*, see real results from your efforts but, a majority of the time, you'll quickly realize managerial incompetence or exhaustion and institutional disorganization derails most projects in which you will take part. On that note and amongst a host of others, you'll find that the clients, families, and communities that SBP supposedly serves are merely props for furthering SBP's brand. Building homes and bringing families home are incidental to the organization's day-to-day work: feeding SBP's marketing machine and brand recognition. If you can put these things out of your mind while also taking into account that you will be treated not as service members but rather a completely free workforce and in that way digest and internalize the fact that SBP will not and doesn't care about your experience, comfort, or well-being but instead needs to wring 10 months of completely free labor out of you by any means necessary you might get through your term without resigning. Be careful not to fall for the seemingly kind words from upper, upper management. They will promise to hire you after your term as well as write letters of recommendation and help you with your career when you graduate. None of this will happen. You won't even get a Microsoft Office template letter of recommendation printed on basic white paper with their signature. I would not recommend this organization for donations or volunteer opportunities. There are others if you do a bit a research and digging and your heart is open to helping.