Summer VISTA Positions Available for Placement in Public Libraries

The Department of Public Instruction is excited to announce the availability of a second summer VISTA grant for communities across Wisconsin. This grant will be administered in partnership with UW-Extension and the US Department of Agriculture.

Basically, this grant will allow us to sponsor 20-30 summer VISTAs across the state to serve your site (at NO cost) for 8 weeks to work on the following types of issues:

*       Benefit (i.e. foodshare) outreach, screening and application assistance
*       Farmers market and community garden development
*       Facilitate community nutrition education workshops
*       Improve the participation rates and efficacy of Summer Food Programs
*       Assist in the collection and distribution of food at area food banks

The focus must be on hunger, but if there are other activities that you feel might relate, please let me know. We are open to placing VISTAs at schools, non profits, libraries, or other community based organizations.

At this time we are trying to get a sense of how many sites might be interested in having summer volunteers to do this kind of work. Please let me know if you would be interested and how many members you feel you could support.

Once more information is sent to us from our State Office we can get a host site application and other information out to you. But letting me know of your interest will hold a spot (or spots) for you.

Summer VISTAs, in return for serving your site full time for 8 weeks, will receive a monthly living allowance of $891/month in urban areas and $858 in rural areas. They will also receive an education award of $1,174.


Contact: Betsy Prueter
Project Coordinator
VISTA Family-School-Community Partnerships AmeriCorps Every Student a 
Graduate Community Learning and Partnerships Team Department of Public Instruction
125 S. Webster Street
P.O. Box 7841
Madison, WI  53707
608-267-7290
608-267-2296 (fax)
betsy.prueter@dpi.wi.gov