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Interested in Making a Difference in a Local Community? Learn About the AmeriCorps Way

AmeriCorps VISTA: Get the Basics

You can address local challenges in communities across the country while building your resume. Join us for a virtual information session to determine if a year or a summer as an AmeriCorps member with a VISTA project is right for you. Benefits of service include:

  • Education award upon successful completion of service
  • Healthcare assistance
  • Living allowance
  • Non-competitive eligibility (federal jobs)
  • Relocation allowance (if applicable)
  • Student loan forbearance

WHEN: Wednesday, September 28, 2022 

TIME: 2:00pm – 3:00pm EDT

EVENT HANDSHAKE REGISTRATION

Interested Working on Food Access in VT?

Salvation Farms and the Northeast Kingdom (NEK) Waste Management District have officially started the search for the NEK Gleaning Coordinator VISTA position, via Harvest Against Hunger.  The position is also listed online here: https://www.harvestagainsthunger.org/harvest-vista-program-positions/

SENIORS: AmeriCorps VISTA Work@Middlebury with CCE!

The Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement invites graduating seniors to apply to our full-time AmeriCorps VISTA positions (August 2020-August 2021). Please learn more at go/ccevista. Apply via Handshake. Priority deadline for applications is May 29th.

Details:

Do you want to support college students’ experiential, community-based learning? Interested in social justice work at the youth development level? We seek two motivated, organized, and compassionate individuals for two, one-year VISTA positions at Middlebury College. The VISTAs will work closely with the Center for Community Engagement (CCE) team to help coordinate and advise youth and mentoring student service organizations such as Community Friends, DREAM, Page One Literacy Project, Middlebury College Access Mentors, Wild Midd, STEAM Girls, and Nutrition Outreach and Mentoring. The VISTAs will help build capacity in programs and community partnerships that improve college aspirations and success and help Addison County children thrive. The VISTA members will also support communications initiatives in the Center for Community Engagement to promote local and global community-connected opportunities. They will supervise college student interns and collaboratively create social media posts, blog posts, weekly e-newsletters, library displays, and other communications efforts that reach multiple stakeholders.

Thank you for considering these opportunities. Email Kailee (kbricknermcdonald@middlebury.edu) with questions.

Curious About AmeriCorps & How They Work in Communities? Join a Panel This Week: 3/11 @ 6:30PM

Interested in being a catalyst for change? AmeriCorps volunteers work alongside community leaders to fight poverty, develop job opportunities, increase access to education and housing, promote healthy living, and much more. During this panel discussion, you will learn about different AmeriCorps programs, hear from current volunteers, and have the opportunity to ask questions.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

WHERE: Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement

Here is some initial info on AmeriCorps, come to our event to hear from current members! https://youtu.be/QgdRkzLKlPM

Can’t make the evening event? Contact Ellie Dickerson, AmeriCoprs VISTA Member, Center for Community Engagement, edickerson@middlebury.edu

Curious About AmeriCorps & How They Work in Communities? Join a Panel This Week: 3/11 @ 6:30PM

Interested in being a catalyst for change? AmeriCorps volunteers work alongside community leaders to fight poverty, develop job opportunities, increase access to education and housing, promote healthy living, and much more. During this panel discussion, you will learn about different AmeriCorps programs, hear from current volunteers, and have the opportunity to ask questions.

WHEN: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 at 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM

WHERE: Middlebury College Center for Community Engagement

Here is some initial info on AmeriCorps, come to our event to hear from current members! https://youtu.be/QgdRkzLKlPM

Can’t make the evening event? Contact Ellie Dickerson, AmeriCoprs VISTA Member, Center for Community Engagement, edickerson@middlebury.edu

Interested in Youth & Mentoring? Work @ Middlebury’s Center for Community Engagement Post-Grad

Come to an info session to hear about how you can join the Center for Community Engagement in a full-time position! The current CCE AmeriCorps VISTA member and VISTA supervisor will talk about the Youth and Mentoring Programs AmeriCorps VISTA role, what it means to be an AmeriCorps member, and all of the amazing benefits of serving in this capacity for the CCE! This opportunity is available to graduating seniors and is posted on Handshake.