AmeriCorps VISTA

The AmeriCorps VISTA program received $65 million in Recovery Act funding to support additional members to expand the capacity of organizations fighting poverty. AmeriCorps VISTA engages individuals 18 years and older in a year of fulltime service in our nation’s poorest urban and rural areas, working to build the organizational, administrative and financial capacity of programs that help pull and keep Americans out of poverty.

Members are assigned to community organizations and public agencies to help the organizations build on locally-driven solutions to both the causes of poverty as well as the problems that arise in poverty-stricken communities. The VISTAs providing employment and financial counseling, expand college access, help ex-offenders re-enter society, organize literacy programs, support health care and independent living services, and more.

Contact Information

If you have comments or questions related to the Corporation's implementation of the Recovery Act, please email recovery@cns.gov. While we won’t be able to individually reply to your email, we will take your comments into consideration as we implement the Act.

To report fraud, waste and abuse, please contact the Corporation's Office of Inspector General at CNCSIG.gov.

For more information on the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
please visit www.Recovery.gov