- Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
- Relocation Allowance
- Childcare assistance (if eligible)
- Living Allowance
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Serve with Girl Scouts GCNWI and help build girls of courage, confidence and character!
About the VISTA Project
The goal of the Girl Scouts GCNWI Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) project is to engage capacity-building AmeriCorps members that will serve girls in low-income and underserved communities.
AmeriCorps members will be tasked with implementing a targeted recruitment process that yields a diverse and inclusive population of girls and troop leaders and will develop systems and policies that sustain GCNWI's mission of serving ALL girls.
Available VISTA Opportunities
Marketing VISTA 
Recruitment VISTA
Research and Evaluation VISTA
Fundraising VISTA
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About the position
The AmeriCorps members in the Girl Scouts GCNWI VISTA project will assist the GCNWI Mission Delivery department with serving Volunteers of America Illinois (VOAI).
AmeriCorps members will focus on capacity building needs for the Englewood V.O.A.I Hope Manor II community troop for low-income youth.
Girls will learn socio-emotional learning (SEL) and trauma behavior tools, and build skills in STEM education, healthy living, and financial literacy through our Girl Scout Cookie Project.
This service position will receive customized training, support, guidance, and networking opportunities, in addition to the traditional opportunities for AmeriCorps VISTA positions.
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Who We’re Looking For:
Our ideal candidate is a self-starter who is passionate about advocating for girls. They are familiar with further developing a start-up project, are enthusiastic towards helping families and girls rise out of poverty with a systems-level focus and understands how an individual’s social environment can impact their possibilities and choices.
We are seeking someone who has experience working and collaborating with diverse populations, is capable of synthesizing information and requirements from multiple data sources and can maintain and improve multiple areas such as marketing, recruitment, fundraising, and project research/evaluation.
Project Benefits
- Training
- Commuter benefits
- Health Coverage
*For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit http://www.vistacampus.gov/healthcare
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