{"id":2720,"date":"2011-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/07\/28\/local-organizations-seeking-americorpsvista-members-3\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:06:50","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:06:50","slug":"local-organizations-seeking-americorpsvista-members-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/07\/local-organizations-seeking-americorpsvista-members-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Local organizations seeking AmeriCorps*VISTA members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AmeriCorps*VISTA program at Delta State University&rsquo;s Center for Community and Development provides a priceless opportunity for individuals to become totally immersed in community projects that start, strengthen, or expand programs, systems or services that help move residents out of poverty.&nbsp; The program serves as an active link between poverty-stricken citizens and sustainability measures for economic growth. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are now openings with non-profit host site agencies focusing on workforce development, financial asset development, and community health outreach-including developing community gardens, in Bolivar, Carroll, Coahoma, Grenada, Holmes, Leflore, Montgomery, Quitman, and Washington counties.&nbsp; These agencies are seeking applicants with developed skills in communications, community organization, computers\/technology, conflict resolution, fundraising\/grant writing, leadership, public speaking, recruitment, and youth development.&nbsp; Interested parties should complete and submit an online application at www.americorps.gov to be considered for membership.&nbsp; Once you have completed the application, you must submit the online application directly to the MDSC\/AmeriCorps*VISTA program.<\/p>\n<p>Upon becoming an AmeriCorps*VISTA member, individuals will receive hands-on training to effectively serve in this capacity to strengthen and enhance efforts to eliminate poverty.&nbsp; Members are also the recipients of substantial benefits.&nbsp; These benefits include a living allowance paid bi-weekly, health and life insurance, and work-related travel reimbursement.&nbsp; Contingent with service completion, members may choose either a $5,550 education award or a $1,500 cash stipend.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please visit the website listed below: <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/my.americorps.gov\/mp\/listing\/search.do?criteria.serviceAreas=H&amp;criteria.programState=MS\">https:\/\/my.americorps.gov\/mp\/listing\/search.do?criteria.serviceAreas=H&amp;criteria.programState=MS &nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AmeriCorps*VISTA program at Delta State University\u2019s Center for Community and Development provides a priceless opportunity for individuals to become totally immersed in community projects that start&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2720"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37881,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2720\/revisions\/37881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}