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AMERICORPS* VISTA OPPORTUNITIES 

 

AmeriCorps«VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) is a full-time, national service program for individuals interested in developing lasting solutions to the problems of poverty in America. AmeriCorps«VISTA members serve in community and faith-based nonprofit organizations and with other agencies and local governments to develop and expand services and programs that help bring low-income people out of poverty. The AmeriCorps«VISTA program has been addressing the needs of impoverished communities since 1965. In total, more than 146,000 individuals have joined forces with 13,000 local organizations to address poverty across the nation.

 

Volunteer Maryland serves as an intermediary agency for nonprofit organizations that address the root causes of poverty and work to bring Maryland citizens or communities out of poverty.  These organizations, called Sponsors, apply through Volunteer Maryland to host AmeriCorps«VISTA members for one-year full-time terms of national service.

 

What do VISTA Members do?

The role of the AmeriCorps«VISTA member is primarily to build the capacity and sustainability of the project and community.  Below are some examples of the natural progression in the types of service performed by an AmeriCorps«VISTA member.  AmeriCorps«VISTA members do not perform direct service (e.g. tutoring children, building houses, or delivering meals to homebound seniors), instead focusing on organizational development, outreach and community organizing, fund raising, and other capacity building activities at the Sponsor agency. 

 

Last year, Saving Our Sisters partnered with Volunteer Maryland to obtain an AmeriCorps VISTA member to serve as our Outreach Coordinator.  The role of our VISTA member was to build capacity by increasing the number of community partnerships, raise awareness through the development and distribution of marketing materials and website development, plan fundraising events, and establish a comprehensive database and systems that contains all of the above. 

 

To build on the partnerships established and resources needed to continue to serve this population and expand services to recovering women of all backgrounds, Saving Our Sisters is now seeking two (2) VISTA members.  The first is a Resources and Fundraising Coordinator to organize and conduct fundraising activities, research and write grants to community foundations and corporate sponsors for resources, identify and cultivate relationships with organizations that conduct fundraising events in which we can become a recipient organization.

 

Having the opportunity to request a second VISTA member concurrently will complement the Resource and Fundraising component.  The positions will serve similar, yet separate functions to promote and garner support for Saving Our Sisters, without overlap.   The Membership Development Coordinator will launch our Membership Drive by recruiting individuals, families, and businesses to become members of Saving Our Sisters.  A concentrated effort on this Membership initiative will help make a larger, strategic impact in our organization’s capacity to raise awareness, create buy-in and increase community based funding streams during this period economic uncertainty.

 

 

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