Community Partner Support AmeriCorps VISTA HandsOnHandsOn New Orleans accelerates community change. We mobilize residents to be civic leaders through connection and action. Our mission is to engage, empower, and transform our community through volunteer service. Our model is unique to the Greater New Orleans region. We support 200+ community partners to identify needs, create high-impact projects and recruit and deploy volunteer teams to make a meaningful difference. If you enjoy serving i...

2022-23 Dwelling Place Community Engagement Coordinator

Dwelling Place improves the lives of people by creating quality affordable housing, providing essential support services and serving as a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization. Included in our Community Building and Engagement Department, the VISTA members will be involved in every level of the department from program design to implementation and evaluation. This position will greatly help Dwelling Place further its mission ...

UGArden VISTA 2022 - UGA VISTA Network

UGArden is a student-run farm located just south of the main University of Georgia campus in Athens, GA. Student volunteers help manage and provide the primary labor to grow approximately 4 acres of vegetables, fruits, shiitake mushrooms and herbs using organic practices. The mission of UGArden is to build a community of students centered on a sustainable food system. The goals of UGArden are: 1) to teach students to grow food using organic pra...

NLADA - Community Partnership Liaison, DEBecause the quality of justice in America should not depend on how much money a person has, NLADA leads a broad network of advocates on the front lines to advance justice and expand opportunity for all by promoting excellence in the delivery of legal services for people who cannot afford counsel. This new VISTA project, Defending Communities in Service, will build sustainable community relationships and data systems and practices that allow particip...

Friends of Parkside - Community Tech Workers Project (LitMN)
The Friends of Parkside (FOP) is a small community-based organization located in the Villages at Parkside (TVP) public housing complex in Detroit, Michigan. FOP was started by residents for residents in 1991 to improve their quality of life. Due to COVID-19, it became painfully obvious that the digital divide was real. Overnight we became an "online or virtual" society. This included doctors' offices, schools and government ag...

AFVN Broward UP Commission Team Project Specialist
Broward UP (UP stands for Unlimited Potential) is a strategic approach to combat poverty and unemployment in 11 zip codes (called Broward UP communities) in Broward County with disproportionately high unemployment & low post-secondary attainment rates. Broward UP is a movement, led by Broward College, to mobilize community partners and local businesses to address the above issues in the most impoverished areas of the County by provi...

LKC Transition Academy Community Organizing VISTA
TTA's overall goal is to improve access to postsecondary education and competitive integrated employment for the students and graduates through targeted classroom-based career exploration; dual enrollment programs; customized employment opportunities and supports; and work readiness partnerships. These efforts are timely and important, for by 2030, 65% of jobs in Missouri, and Kansas City, are expected to require a postsecondary credenti...

*MCVP - YWCA of Great Falls
The goal of this VISTA project is to increase economic opportunities for low-income women and families living in the Mercy Home emergency shelter, increase housing options for women and families leaving the shelter, and recruit and train volunteers to staff the Thrift Store to benefit these individuals. The YWCA Great Falls is a member of the Great Falls Continuum of Care to prevent homelessness. In fiscal year 2020, they served 291 women and children in the ...