About americorps
at focus: hope
AmeriCorps members commit their time to address critical community needs like increasing academic achievement, mentoring youth, fighting poverty, sustaining national parks, preparing for disasters and more.
What We Do
Currently, Focus: HOPE hosts 9 year-long VISTAs and 8 Summer Associates.
Americorps Vista Member
AmeriCorps VISTA members build capacity in nonprofit organizations and public agencies to help them more effectively generate the commitment of private sector resources, encourage volunteer service at the local level, and empower individuals and communities. AmeriCorps VISTA members serve full time for one-year terms.
Americorps Vista Leader
Leaders work to expand and build the capacity of individual AmeriCorps VISTA members and their service sites. AmeriCorps VISTA Leaders have previously served a full term of full-time service with any AmeriCorps program or with Peace Corps and have demonstrated exemplary skills and leadership in community service.
Americorps Vista Summer Associate
The AmeriCorps VISTA Summer Associate program offers individuals the opportunity to become engaged in a community through an existing AmeriCorps VISTA project for 8, 9, or 10 weeks during the summer. Since 1965, over 220,000 VISTA members have served with the mission to strengthen organizations that alleviate poverty. VISTA serves in each of the 50 U.S. States and in all U.S. Territories. VISTA members go where they are needed and make a difference through volunteering and the mobilization of resources.
Become a Vista with Focus: HOPE
Volunteer and Community Resources Department
Volunteer and Community Outreach Coordinator: This VISTA will support volunteer recruitment and engagement events, including but not limited to the Food for Seniors program, collect and enter data, and assist with other volunteer engagement activities. The ideal candidate will possess organizational, technological and people skills. This role is a hybrid model of onsite and virtual support.
Advocacy, Equity and Community Empowerment Department
Generation of Promise Program Coordinator: Generation of Promise program (GoP) is a ten-month experiential social justice educational program offered to high school juniors in Detroit and the metropolitan region. This member will support virtual program events, facilitate recruitment and outreach, organize alumni network relations, develop program curriculum, and more. An ideal candidate is a creative self-starter and is enthusiastic about youth leadership and social justice education.
HOPE Village Revitalization
Volunteer and Program Coordinator: This VISTA will help build organizational capacity in the areas of improving community health, providing access to resources, and building a volunteer base. Also, they will coordinate and oversee volunteer projects. Quality candidates will demonstrate organizational, problem solving and networking skills.
