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Campus Compact VISTA Washington & Lee University

The Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA program places AmeriCorps VISTA members in full service with our campus and community partners for a one-year period. During this year, members spend 35 hours per week on their host site’s campus or with one of that campus’s community partners to work on building systems and programs that support low-income college students and community members. The VISTA member’s work is to build capacity, meaning that rather than directly serving the community, they’re enhancing or creating systems, structures, and resources that support the direct anti-poverty work. Campus Compact functions as the central VISTA program hub, performing program administration, offering training and support to VISTA members and their projects, and connecting the work happening in individual projects both to similar work happening nationwide and back to AmeriCorps. For detailed program information and FAQs, please visit our website.

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Member Duties : The AmeriCorps VISTA will build capacity for a new Washington and Lee University program to enhance best practices for community organizations in recruiting and supporting first-generation and low-income W&L students as volunteers. This program will increase communication across differences to grow the needed mindset, skillset, and heartset for optimal collaborations. The VISTA will research best practices, hold discussion circles with college students and community organization representatives, and develop a survey in order to understand ways of enhancing engagement and developing students’ professional and civic skills. The success of this program will increase student engagement and positive community relations. Students will also gain competencies in service-learning work that can translate into career skill development.

Program Benefits : Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Relocation Allowance , Living Allowance , Additional host site non-cash supports , Childcare assistance if eligible , Health Coverage* , Training , Education award upon successful completion of service .


*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.

Terms : Permits attendance at school during off hours , Permits working at another job during off hours .

Service Areas : Community Outreach , Education .

Skills : Community Organization , Communications , Writing/Editing , Education .



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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA

Program
Campus Compact VISTA Washington & Lee University

Program Start/End Date
08/12/2024 - 08/11/2025

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
College graduate

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations	VIRGINIA

Accepting Applications
From 03/08/2024 To 07/03/2024

Contact	Isabella Bains
89 South St
Boston MA 02111
6172077665
vista@compact.org
tinyurl.com/y7hbam9m

Listing ID	122032


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