Apply for Open AmeriCorps VISTA Member Positions
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This fall, Cities of Service will place our largest-ever class of AmeriCorps VISTA members in 20+ city halls across the country. Cities of Service VISTA members work alongside senior level city staff and nonprofits to build community and organizational capacity. They join a nationwide network of current and former members.
We are still accepting applications for a number of positions. Please share this opportunity with your networks and with any candidates that you think would be a strong fit.
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What Does Effective Citizen Engagement Look Like?
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Citizen engagement can make the difference between a city government achieving long-lasting community solutions and failing to make an impact. But what does it look like? Reflecting on our Resilience AmeriCorps program, our Senior Program Manager Rosalind Erwin offers her perspective on how a city can sustain meaningful collaboration with residents to create change.
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Unsung Hero Mary P. Wheeler
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Our Unsung Heroes series profiles residents who provide key support to our programs, planning and driving community initiatives. In Resilience AmeriCorps city Minot, North Dakota, Mary Wheeler was instrumental in the creation of a tool-lending library, and now helps to keep it functioning in her role as technical services librarian for the local public library. In addition to providing tools, as she told us, the library helps strengthen communities.
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- In Engaged Cities Award finalist city San Francisco, staff collaborated with corporate volunteers to digitize the process of applying for affordable housing. As a recent Route Fifty article outlined, the DAHLIA housing portal has made housing more accessible for residents.
- Since Buffalo, New York, joined our coalition in 2011, we have collaborated with city staff on several initiatives, including our Love Your Block program. Govloop published an article exploring the city's Operation Clean Sweeps program, which improves communities by reducing blight. As the article notes, Mayor Brown is a member of our Mayors Council - we are excited to continue teaming up to engage residents!
- Our Senior Program Manager Rosalind Erwin was interviewed for an article in the Jackson Free Press that features our Love Your Block program, which empowers residents to create neighborhood change. As the article explains, residents in Jackson, Mississippi, have taken the initiative to improve their neighborhoods while strengthening communities.
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