AmeriCorps VISTA: Serve your Community, Earn Benefits, and Build your Experience.
Join us for an info session about the opportunities available to you through AmeriCorps VISTA! AmeriCorps is the federal agency that brings people together to tackle the country’s most pressing challenges through national service and volunteering. AmeriCorps VISTA is an excellent opportunity for anyone who is looking to kickstart their professional career. Serve over the summer or for a whole year and help boost a nonprofit organization’s human capacity. Gain new skills or sharpen the ones you’ve been cultivating by coordinating administrative projects such as data management, grant writing, communications and marketing materials development, and more.Learn more about how you can serve your community and earn important benefits such as:
Bi-weekly Living Allowance ($24,962)
Relocation Allowance
Health coverage
Childcare assistance
End of Service Award: Choose between a Segal Education Award ($7,395) or cash stipend ($1,800) at the end of their service year.
Loan forbearance and Interest payments on student loans
Professional Development Training
Non-Competitive Eligibility: a special hiring status enables AmeriCorps VISTA alumni to apply for federal jobs with the advantage of not having to go through the standard public competitive selection process