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AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. President John F. Kennedy originated the idea for VISTA, which was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. [ 1 ]
AmeriCorps VISTA, or Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA), was founded in 1965 as a domestic version of the Peace Corps.The program was incorporated into AmeriCorps and renamed AmeriCorps VISTA to create AmeriCorps in 1993. [8]
Thomas A Kramer (Kansas City , Kansas ) 1970-1972 Vista Leader 1972 founder of Kramer Video Inc , Seattle, WA; Gerry Larson Susan Lish; Ki Longfellow, author; VISTA volunteer on the Blackfeet Indian reservation; William Luvaas [2] Ray Magliozzi, former host of Car Talk; James H. Maloney; George R. R. Martin
AmeriCorps Seniors is made up of seven constituent programs—State and National, VISTA, NCCC (National Civilian Community Corps), Foster Grandparents, Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP), Senior Companions and Volunteer in Community—which were brought together under one umbrella when the Corporation for National and Community Service ...
Born in Dedham, Massachusetts, Hackett was appointed by President John F. Kennedy to head the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime.Later, Hackett headed a study group for the establishment of a domestic peace corps organization, which later became AmeriCorps Vista.
In 1965, Luvaas was one of two AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers in Alabama, working with black sharecroppers and domestic workers in a government-funded program "designed to provide needed resources to nonprofit organizations and public agencies to increase their capacity to lift communities out of poverty." [1] [2] [3]
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