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Recruitment Details
Forms
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AmeriCorps Member Application (pdf)
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VIP Fact Sheet (pdf)
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VIP Host Site Application (pdf)
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VIP Host Site Letter (pdf)
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VIP Host Site Application Info Sheet (pdf)
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VIP Capacity Assessment (pdf)
Partner Agencies
- Non-profit and public service agencies located in San Luis Obispo and Northern Santa Barbara Counties are welcome to apply to a host a VIP AmeriCorps member.
- Agencies are required to complete a Host Site Application and VIP Capacity Assessment.
- Agencies are selected based upon current need and compatibility of the position they seek to create.
- All hosting agencies are required to pay a cash match of $11,000; the AmeriCorps Program covers all additional member expenses.
- Recruitment occurs year-round with members being placed in August 2012 for the next program year.
- Agencies are strongly encouraged to independently recruit members. While, Cal Poly VIP will also recruit members on behalf of partner agencies, independent recruitment improves the likelihood that an agency will be guaranteed participation in the program.
Members
- AmeriCorps is not a job; it is a paid service experience. AmeriCorps members are not employees of the agency; they are AmeriCorps members serving at a host site.
- AmeriCorps is a 10-11 month service commitment that will begin in August 2012
- Members receive a living allowance, paid twice monthly in equal installments throughout the term of service.
- Members are eligible for health insurance and subsidized child-care for the length of their service term.
- AmeriCorps offers an opportunity to gain new skills and experience the tremendous satisfaction that comes from helping others.
- All positions are full-time (1700 hours/year).
- The positions focus on building the capacity of agencies by building and strengthening volunteer programs in community agencies.
- Upon successful completion of AmeriCorps service, members become eligible for an education award that can be used to pay for college and some work training programs or repay outstanding student loans.
- The education award for full time members is $5,550 in 2012.
- AmeriCorps members who begin service in 2010 or later, who are age 55 older at the time they commence service, may, upon successful completion of a term of service, transfer the education award to a child, grandchild, or foster child.
