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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 Skookum Kids: Skookum Kids is building resilient communities where children experiencing foster care can thrive. Skookum licenses foster parents, places kids in loving homes, cares for kids at our emergency shelter in Northwest Washington, and supports families rebuilding after time apart. Most of the families Skookum Kids serves come from marginalized communities. Poverty can be a contributing factor to a family coming into contact with the foster care system, exacerbating difficulties they may be experiencing. And there typically isn't much support available to families who have done the hard work and come through the foster system, and Skookum Kids is here to change that. Our programs at Skookum work together to make sure kids are safe, taken care of by healthy adults, and that they know how loved and valuable they are while their lives are turned upside down. There is a place for everyone in the work of foster care. If you have a heart for kids, and share the vision of a more resilient community, we would love to meet you. Read more at: https://www.skookumkids.org/about
Position Duties: As a Skookum Kids VISTA, you'll work on volunteer recruitment and support, community partnerships, and storytelling: - Creating and executing a strategy to recruit, appreciate, and retain volunteers and interns - Building and maintaining a story log of content for social media and recruitment use - Joining staff and volunteers participating at The Landing and other volunteer centric programs - Improving system for in-kind donations to various programs and fundraisers - Assisting with grant writing and reporting and creating a grants calendar If this sounds interesting to you, please reach out!
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