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  2. AmeriCorps VISTA - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. List of VISTA volunteers - Wikipedia

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    Notable people who served as members with the Volunteers in Service to America program include the following: Alurista , poet and activist Paul H. Anderson , Minnesota Supreme Court justice; attorney for VISTA

  4. AmeriCorps - Wikipedia

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    The program was incorporated into AmeriCorps and renamed AmeriCorps VISTA to create AmeriCorps in 1993. [8] VISTA provides full-time members to nonprofit, faith-based and other community organizations, and public agencies to create and expand programs that ultimately bring low-income individuals and communities out of poverty. There are ...

  5. Brooke Lierman - Wikipedia

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    Between college and law schools, Lierman was an AmeriCorps VISTA member at The DREAM Program in Vermont, working with children living in public housing developments. [6] Lierman is a counsel for the Baltimore civil rights firm Brown, Goldstein, & Levy LLP, where she handles a variety of civil rights and disability rights cases.

  6. New York City Coalition Against Hunger - Wikipedia

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    The National Anti-Hunger and Opportunity Corps (AHOC) is a 48-member AmeriCorps VISTA program, sponsored by NYCCAH and funded by a public-private partnership of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), the WalMart Foundation, and Trinity Church Wall Street. [7]

  7. Gwen Moore - Wikipedia

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    As an organizer with AmeriCorps VISTA, Moore worked to establish the Cream City Community Development Credit Union to offer grants and loans to low-income residents to start businesses. [4] For her work, she was awarded the national "VISTA Volunteer of the Decade" award from 1976 to 1986. [ 5 ]

  8. Ezra Levin - Wikipedia

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    Levin began his career with AmeriCorps VISTA in San Jose, California, from 2007 to 2008. The following year, he served as deputy policy director for Congressman, Lloyd Doggett , from 2008 to 2011. Levin was an associate director of federal policy at Prosperity Now from 2012 until 2017, where his focus was on homelessness and poverty.

  9. Irwin Redlener - Wikipedia

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    Redlener was born in Brooklyn, New York.He received his B.A. from Hofstra University in 1964 and his M.D. from the University of Miami in 1969. In 1971, while a pediatric resident at University of Colorado Medical Center, Redlener left his program to serve as the medical director of an AmeriCorps VISTA health center in Lee County, Arkansas, the sixth poorest county in the U.S. [2] During this ...