2010 - 2011 LISC AmeriCorps Members Profiles
Date Published: 04/18/2011
Author: Stacey Rapp, LISC AmeriCorp
Publisher: LISC
Excerpt:
Dear Friend of LISC AmeriCorps,
Although the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is a national organization, we have a very local approach. In collaboration with local community development groups, locally based LISC staff help identify priorities and challenges, to deliver the most appropriate support to meet local needs. LISC is helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity — good places to work, do business and raise children. Our mission in Building Sustainable Communities can be reached through achieving five goals:
- Expanding Investment in Housing and Other Real Estate
- Increasing Family Income and Wealth
- Stimulating Economic Development
- Improving Access to Quality Education
- Supporting Healthy Environments and Lifestyles
Through our AmeriCorps Program, LISC provides our non-profit partners with the human capital needed to expand their services or pilot new ones. The program is flexible. It is responsive to local need. It touches the lives of thousands of individuals, a good number of whom don’t even realize it’s at work. AmeriCorps is a unique program that draws on the creativity, hard work and commitment of average people and uses it to tackle what too often seem to be intractable issues underlying poverty. LISC’s AmeriCorps program combines service to the community with meaningful, hands-on work experience, training and leadership development. It helps identify and nurture future leaders by exposing participants to the community development industry. Our members help to foster volunteerism and civic engagement by encouraging neighbors to take active roles in helping to transform the communities in which they live. Continued [+]...
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Topics: Organizational & Professional Development, --AmeriCorps
Type: Guidebook