AmeriCorps VISTA, Promise Zone Initiative, SERVE Philadelphia

Posted by City of Philadelphia on December 08, 2014

SERVE Philadelphia is recruiting a candidate for 1 AmeriCorps VISTA position to support Philadelphia’s Promise Zone Initiative

To Apply: CLICK HERE

https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?id=58345&fromSearch=true

The City of Philadelphia has been selected as one of only three cities for a Promise Zone designation, a new federal initiative led by the White House with support from federal agencies. The Obama Administration created the Promise Zone initiative to address the challenges of areas of deep and persistent poverty. Today, the neighborhood you grow up in impacts your odds of graduating high school, whether you are likely to face chronic disease, and your lifelong economic opportunities. The goal of this effort is to ensure that everyone has equal access to opportunity, and that the place you are born does not determine your destiny. The target area of the Promise Zone locally is roughly two square miles in West Philadelphia – bounded by the Schuylkill River to the east, Girard Avenue to the north, 48th Street to the west, and Sansom Street to the south.

The AmeriCorps VISTA will work with a coalition of community stakeholders to advance the goals of the Promise Zone in the areas of workforce development. Specifically, the VISTA will: (1) Manage the Promise Zone subcommittees on workforce development, (2) develop the infrastructure and protocols to disseminate information to anchor institutions, City leadership, schools, early childhood centers, businesses, area non-profits, philanthropic organizations, and the residents about resources and services, (3) develop and coordinate community engagement activities to make Promise Zone work visible to the residents of West Philadelphia.

To Apply: CLICK HERE

https://my.americorps.gov/mp/listing/viewListing.do?id=58345&fromSearch=true