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NJ Bonner VISTA Fellows - Isles
 
 
 
The New Jersey Bonner VISTA Fellow Program is a post-college national volunteer service program developed in partnership of The Center for Community Engaged Learning & Outreach at The College of New Jersey (TCNJ) and the Bonner Foundation. New Jersey Bonner VISTA Fellows serve full-time for one year to enhance volunteerism, develop economic opportunities, and address policy issues across central New Jersey. The select candidate will be part of a larger cohort of VISTA members that will receive On-Site Orientation and monthly trainings to improve knowledge and skills in the field. The Communication and Volunteer Management Coordinator will work directly at Isles in Trenton, NJ. Isles is a community development and environmental nonprofit organization. With a mission to foster self-reliant families in healthy, sustainable communities, Isles: (1) Supports personal and community change, offering an array of services and training that empower people to improve their lives, families and communities while they restore the environment. (2) Addresses immediate challenges such as food, shelter, jobs, and toxic environments in an entrepreneurial way that impacts future generations. (3) Assumes that strengths and assets exist in even the most challenged areas. (4) Helps people to re-imagine and re-develop older communities. (5) Brings the wisdom of years of community building work to efforts to improve public policy and education. (6) Offers a variety of self-help tools and services that communities choose to use. In addition to community-based development services, Isles provides public education support throughout New Jersey. Isles works to change regional and statewide policies that concentrate poverty, undermine schools, promote sprawl, and foster racial segregation. To learn more about Isles, go to http://isles.org.
 
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Member Duties : The Communication and Volunteer Management Coordinator will work to improve awareness of Isles, Inc. through communications, while also improving the recruitment, selection and training of volunteers. Duties will include: 1) Update the volunteer management plan as needed to track and incorporate new policies and positions. 2) Implement the utilization of a donor database, determining what to track and develop a template to report year-end results. Create a training tool which can be utilized to train others on how to enter information into the database (i.e., other staff or volunteers). 3)Work with staff to develop a structured orientation session for volunteer groups to educate them on the organization’s mission and goals. 4)Design activities which better connect volunteers and patrons. 5)Create templates of emails and calendars which can be utilized to communicate with volunteers and patrons. 6)Set statistical goals and outcomes for volunteer projects and plans for the year.
 
Program Benefits : Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend ,  Relocation Allowance ,  Training ,  Living Allowance ,  Childcare assistance if eligible . 
 
 
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorps.gov/members-volunteers/vista/benefits.
 
Terms :
None
 
Service Areas :
Environment ,  Community Outreach ,  Housing ,  Education ,  Children/Youth ,  Neighborhood Revitalization ,  Community and Economic Development ,  Entrepreneur/Business ,  Homelessness . 
 
Skills :
General Skills ,  Business/Entrepreneur ,  Fund raising/Grant Writing ,  Community Organization ,  Recruitment ,  Computers/Technology ,  Communications ,  Writing/Editing ,  Social Services ,  Public Speaking ,  Leadership . 
 
 
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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps VISTA
Program
NJ Bonner VISTA Fellows - Isles
Program Start/End Date
08/04/2014  -   08/07/2015
Work Schedule Full Time
Education level
College graduate
Age Requirement
Minimum:  18    Maximum:  None
Program Locations NEW JERSEY   New York City (inc. Long Island CT NJ NY)  
Languages
English
Accepting Applications
From  05/14/2014  To  06/27/2014 
Contact Sarah Perez-Klausner
Tcnj, Bonner Center
Ewing   NJ   08618
6097712449
vista@bonner.org
bonner.pages.tcnj.edu/
Listing ID 40973

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