Launching Your VISTA Service
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Launching Your VISTA Service
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Kayleigh Remavich
AmeriCorps VISTA Member Support Specialist
VISTA Alum ’16-’17
Ericc Powell
AmeriCorps VISTA Training CoordinatorVISTA Alum ’06-’07
VISTA Leader Alum ‘08-’09
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In this webinar, we will:
• Describe VISTA’s mission and the program
• Review a few VISTA’s recent accomplishments
• Identify support persons and resources
• Highlight action items needing your attention
• Administer the Oath of Service
Session Objectives
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“…you will be opening up new vistas of hope for the poor…”
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A family of national service programs
AmeriCorps VISTA & CNCS
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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources
VISTA’s Mission
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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources
VISTA’s Mission
Key principles:
• Ending poverty
• Empowering communities
• Creating sustainable solutions
• Building capacity
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Strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty through the mobilization of volunteers and resources
VISTA’s Mission
Key principles:
• Ending poverty
• Empowering communities
• Creating sustainable solutions
• Building capacity
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Capacity Building
Efforts that help an organization’s ability to:
• Increase reach
• Improve efficiency
• Scale up
• Be more effective
Direct Service
Efforts that serve individuals in need, but do not address the development of systems or organizations. Includes:
• Tutoring
• Manual labor
• Foodbank service
• Counseling
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Capacity Building Direct Service
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Recruiting volunteers to build houses
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Recruiting volunteers to build houses
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Delivering “meals on wheels”
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Delivering “meals on wheels”
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Teaching a financial literacy course
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Teaching a financial literacy course
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Organizing a fundraiser
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Organizing a fundraiser
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Setting up partnerships in the community
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Setting up partnerships in the community
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A Legacy of Expanding Economic Opportunity
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Which of the key principle(s)
resonates with you? Why?
Key Principles:
• Ending poverty
• Empowering communities
• Building capacity
• Creating sustainable solutions
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Each VAD includes:
• Project Goal
• Objectives
• Member Activities
VISTA Assignment Description
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Each VAD includes:
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Each VAD includes:
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Each VAD includes:
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According to your VAD,
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SO WHAT?
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If you succeed in your
service, what will happen
in your community?
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Passcode: 7873382VISTAs Get Things Done!
800,000Community volunteers
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3 millionDisadvantaged youth
served
140,000Veterans and military
families served
4,500+Sites across the
country
$206 millionCash and in-kind
resources
8,500VISTA members
served
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Online Support
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• Working with Volunteers
• Fundraising
• Communication & Marketing
• VISTA Program Area Resources
• Other
• Poverty in America
• Workplace & Service Site
• Building Partnerships
• Community Development
• Project Management
VISTA Campus
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• VISTACampus.gov
• Learning Opportunities for Service
and Beyond
• Webinars on
• Life as a VISTA
• The Work
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1. Review the Benefits page
• Living allowance ~ Healthcare ~ Loan forbearance ~ End-of-service benefit (Ed award or cash stipend) ~ Childcare ~ Online courses for credit ~ etc.
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3. Contact the VMSU via the National Service Hotline
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Jordan Brewster
Keystone Foodbank
Oath of Service
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09/04/2018
Kayleigh Remavich
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I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies,
foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and
allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely,
without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion;
and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of
the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
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1. Duty date is today’s date
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“On your idealism and
on your success rests
much of our hope for the
final elimination of poverty
in our American life.”- Lyndon Johnson, December 12, 1964
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