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AmeriCorps*VISTA Programs Website

AmeriCorps*VISTA is dedicated to eliminating poverty by helping individuals and low-income neighborhoods make positive changes for themselves. Through AmeriCorps*VISTA, ordinary people provide extraordinary service in more than 1,200 projects nationwide. Members serve full-time for a year in organizations and agencies throughout the country, working to fight illiteracy, improve health services, create businesses, increase housing opportunities, or bridge the digital divide. -- From this Americorps website, you can search for an Americorps program that interests you. Remember that there are numerous individual organizations that, as AmeriCorps member organizations, hire one or more Corps members each year. In this way, AmeriCorps gives you access to great experience. The Americorps website is also where you can find more information about becoming an Corps member with a participating Americorps organization.

http://www.americorps.gov/for_individuals/ready/programs_vista.asp

Duration: 1 year - 2 years, 6 months - 1 year

Focus Area: Americorps Programs, Children & Youth, Community Organizing, Education, Environment, Faith-based, Health, Social Services / Poverty

Location: Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Los Angeles, CA, New York City, NY, San Francisco Bay Area, CA, U.S. Midwest, U.S. Northeast, U.S. South, U.S. West, Washington, D.C.

Open to: Graduating seniors, Recent graduates

Deadline Month: Rolling