Please Complete Per Instructions Found in Section E of Host Site Application

AmeriCorps*VISTA Assignment Description (VAD) Please complete per instructions found in Section E of Host Site Application Focus on activities for 2012-2013

VISTA Project: VISTA Member Name: (leave blank at this time) Wisconsin Campus Compact Site Name: Date: 2012-2013

Goal 1: AmeriCorps*VISTA members will establish and/or maintain sustainable community partnerships between their host intuitions and community organizations, that address local poverty issues. Activities in this goal should explain how the VISTA will work to:  Establishing/maintaining partnerships with your identified community partner(s)  Identify needs/assets of community partner(s)  Create Memorandum of Agreements with community partners  Maintain regular communication with community partners  Incorporate projects into college coursework, internships, student research project; as well as into student volunteer projects in order to address the needs identified  Train volunteers or community partners in order to better prepare them for the projects at hand  Track volunteers and service-learners working community with partners  If applicable, create guidelines or handbooks for the service-learning or community service project

Activity Target/Expected Outcomes Dates Activity 1: Create and Maintain a Each AmeriCorps*VISTA member works with By September: Initial asset Community Asset Map community stakeholders to create/update map completed Step 1: Attend WiCC asset mapping asset maps to better understand the training and review sample community issues and potential avenues to Quarterly: update maps at VISTA Annex address those issues. Step 2: Identify Relevant stakeholders Step 3: Conduct asset mapping in collaboration with stakeholders Step 4: Develop living asset map document

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Goal 2: AmeriCorps*VISTA members will document and create awareness of the anti-poverty projects, the campus-community partnerships, and the poverty related issues they are addressing to ensure that the community-campus partnerships they have helped to initiate/maintain are sustained beyond the AmeriCorps*VISTA members' terms of service. Activities in this goal should explain how the VISTA will work to:  Have projects/partnerships covered in the media throughout the year  Work with an advisory council that is made up of 51% low-income individuals  Plan a presentation for the end of the academic year that will summarize the accomplishments of the VISTA project (with campus and community in attendance) Activity Target/Expected Outcome Dates Activity 1: Create an Advisory Board to Each AmeriCorps*VISTA will create an By December: Members guide and sustain the VISTA project Advisory Board made up of at least 51% low- recruited for board Step 1: Identify individual stakeholders income individuals to ensure that the project including those being served by is guided/sustained by community voices. By February: Convene first program meeting Step 2: Support participation of low- income members by considering barriers such as transportation, childcare and meeting times. Step 3: Convene a minimum of two advisory board meetings Step 4: Incorporate guidance gained from board meetings to inform programming.

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In the box above create your own goal indicating the anticipated community impact, following instructions found in Section E of Host Site Application. Activities in this goal should explain how the VISTA will work to:  Demonstrate (through surveys or other assessment tools) that the identified goal is met. Sites will be required to report results to the WiCC office on a semester or annual basis. Activity Target/Expected Outcome Dates Activity 1: VISTA members will conduct a 75% of individuals participating in economic Ongoing: programming and survey of participants in VISTA- opportunity VISTA programs have increased assessment coordinated projects focused on: access to economic opportunity economic opportunities OR Quarterly: report on data OR 75% of PK-12 students receiving tutoring or educational opportunities mentoring services in partnerships End of Term: target outcome OR coordinated by VISTAs have increased met health and healthy lifestyles. knowledge of higher education Step 1: Implement programming opportunities. Step 2: Utilize WiCC VISTA Community OR Impact survey and other site 75% of participants in healthy lifestyle VISTA specific assessment tools coordinated projects have increase Step 3: Collect data and report to knowledge about improving their health and WiCC maintaining healthy lifestyles.

Wisconsin Campus Compact ∙ 432 N. Lake St., Room B121B ∙ Madison, WI 53706 3 (608) 890-3223 ∙ Email: [email protected]