Project Specifics
A lot of AmeriCorps VISTA’s are doing projects that focus much more on the anti-poverty mission of the AmeriCorps. I am actually one of the fringe VISTA’s who works in primarily domestic and ual violence. The connection (I think) to
AmeriCorps “How-To” 1.01
Today’s first “how-to” installment is the all-important question to the AmeriCorps VISTA member: how to go “out on the town” with only five spare dollars in your pocket. Well, I shall educate you because this is what I successfully did
AmeriCorps “How-To” 1.02
I am currently organizing the Sixth Annual Peace Officer of the Year award for the Helena Family Violence Council (my particular VISTA project focus), and the event is tomorrow. I’ve been working on this for probably about two months,
Enjoying Success
The ceremony that I had been organizing for the past several months took place yesterday afternoon, and it went beautifully. There was a great turnout, the press was there, many members of both police departments were there,
How to Deal with the “OMG I’m Never Going to Pull This Off” Blues
Naturally, I’m sitting here as the 22-year-old, fresh out of college, AmeriCorps VISTA thinking “how in the world am I going to pull this kind of thing off?” Well, here’s some tips to get out of that kind of thinking:
Introduction
The Council is moving towards more of an outreach and prevention awareness focus, and they applied for an AmeriCorps VISTA grant in order to help them do that. That’s where I come in. I am also partnered with the Friendship Center here
The Importance of Food “Donations”
You see, when people hear that you are in AmeriCorps, they will automatically assume that you are probably starving. If you’re like me and eat 5-6 times a day, this is a beneficial assumption to you. My roommate and I drove back to
Office Tip #1
Don’t spend 15 minutes writing an informative email complete with attachments and everything, and then after looking over everything and verifying that it looks good, decide to click the “close” button instead of the “send” button.
The Cheetah Briefly At Rest: The 2006 VDB Interview With Matt Dunne
And so I found myself the next morning at Blue High School, which is one of the toughest high schools in America, with a group of wonderful AmeriCorps/VISTA members all around with me. And they did this big announcement of something
AmeriCorps-Vista?
Turns out they ARE, in fact, AmeriCorps. The lady snapped at me at first, because I was like “Do you have brochures?” and she was like, “We’re not with ASU!” Then I think she realized that I’m one of *those* people.

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