AmeriCorps VISTA
Make a lasting impact while building skills that matter. Serving with AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) allows you to help fight poverty by strengthening a nonprofit’s capacity to create meaningful, long-term change.
Through hands-on experience in fundraising, grant writing, volunteer recruitment, and more, you’ll develop valuable leadership and professional skills, while supporting work that truly makes a difference. A year of service with AmeriCorps Ocoee can help prepare you for careers in public service, nonprofit leadership, education, and the private sector.
Serve your community. Build professional skills.
Strengthen local nonprofits. Fight poverty through service.
AmeriCorps VISTA members serve full-time for one year. Each of our AmeriCorps VISTA projects will engage you in meaningful work, expand your social network, and provide professional development opportunities in order to prepare you for your next steps in life - whether that is pursuing a career or furthering your education.
As a year-long AmeriCorps VISTA member, you are eligible to receive many benefits including:
AmeriCorps Benefits
- An annual living stipend of $22,882
- A choice between the Segal AmeriCorps Education Award valued at $7,395.00, which can be used to pay back your qualifying student loans or for furthering your education, or an end-of-service cash stipend set at $1,800
- Forbearance or deferment of current student loans during VISTA service
- Relocation Stipend and Settling-In Allowance for members moving more than 50 miles to serve
- VISTA healthcare benefits or allowance
United Way of the Ocoee Region Benefits
- $150/month Food City grocery stipend
- Monthly professional development cohort
- Local networking opportunities
Learn and grow while making a difference in the lives of others. Individuals who serve with AmeriCorps build new skillsets that they can take with them wherever they go, while giving back to communities across the country. Besides the opportunities provided for networking at your location of service, AmeriCorps Ocoee also provides a monthly cohort meeting to deep dive on a new skill and learn from community experts.
For questions, contact us at americorps@unitedwayocoee.org or 423-479-2020.
United Way of the Ocoee Region is an AmeriCorps grantee. AmeriCorps invests in strengthening communities through national service, and our AmeriCorps VISTA program helps build the capacity of local nonprofit organizations to fight poverty across the Ocoee Region.
AmeriCorps is the federal agency connecting individuals and organizations through service and volunteering to tackle the nation’s most pressing challenges. Learn more at AmeriCorps.gov.