Center for Intergenerational Learning Seeks VISTA
VISTA Opportunity at the Center for Intergenerational Learning (CIL)
An Overview of CIL:
For more than 28 years, the Center has mobilized thousands of older adults and youth to serve as resources to each other and their communities, most of which are low-income. Older adults serve as literacy tutors and mentors, parent outreach workers, and oral historians, and provide in-home support to teen mothers, families caring for children with disabilities and chronic illnesses, and grandparents raising grandchildren.
Young people provide respite services to frail elderly and their families, conduct oral histories with nursing home residents, and help older immigrants and refugees learn English and prepare to become U.S. citizens.
VISTA Responsibilities May Include:
1. Research communications strategies and platforms of other successful nonprofits (e.g., online research, interviews with communications directors, media advisors, website designers, etc.)
2. Catalog best practices
3. Help develop a communications needs assessment tailored to individual programs
4. Collect data and help conduct a gap analysis
5. Outline a center-wide communications plan including short and longer term programmatic goals, priority need areas, and implementation timelines.
6. Implement and evaluate communications plan components
Program Benefits:
• A $4,725 Segal AmeriCorps Education Award or $1,200 post-service stipend
• Modest living allowance
• Healthcare benefits while in service
• Childcare assistance while in service
• Student loan forbearance or deferment while in service
• Full-Paid Inner City SEPTA Transpass
• Discounted Access to Temple University Campus Recreation facilities
• Access to the network of VISTA & VISTA alumni (170,000 strong)
Contact:
Jenny Zapf, 1601 N. Broad Street, Phila PA 19122
215-204-0690
jzapf@templecil.org
www.templecil.org