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AmeriCorps VISTA members spend at least one year in full-time service (35 hrs per week) addressing the needs of low-income communities. All projects focus on building permanent infrastructure in nonprofit organizations to help them more effectively bring individuals and communities out of poverty. When VISTA members complete their service, they leave behind lasting solutions to some of our country's toughest problems.
VISTA volunteer benefits:
-Stipend
-Relocation Allowance
-Loan Forbearance
-Medical Allowance & Food Benefits
-End of Year Service Award OR Education Award
-Non-competitive Eligibility for Federal Employment
-Work experience
-Being a Part of a Large Anti-poverty Movement
About DVSAS: Our mission at DVSAS is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation and to lead the community towards ending these abuses of power. We value equity, justice, and anti-oppression practices, understanding people and communities holistically and contextually, trauma-informed and healing-centered practices, learning, self-reflection, and transparency, well-being, self-determination, and safety. You will be a part of our Development team which is responsible for the communications, marketing, fundraising and event management for DVSAS. Your focus will be on setting up systems to help us build our community engagement, grow back our volunteer cohort (who help us do everything from filing to direct advocacy) and create systems to develop and increase our grant income.
Position Duties: The VISTA will have three main objectives: grow community outreach including prioritizing community outreach locations, improving the onboarding process, and expanding the volunteer support system, improve data for individual giving, volunteers, foundation/corporate giving, and sponsors and support and develop fundraising events. They will learn our donor and volunteer databases, our event software, and help to develop and record SOPs for future use. They will research prospective donors and funders and work with the Development Director to create donor communications.
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