Sewanee has learned that it will be an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) site. Ten VISTA volunteers will be hired to serve within a number of community organizations, including the Chattanooga Area Food Bank’s Mobile Food Pantries for Local Schools, Discover Together (a collaboration between Sewanee, Scholastic and Yale University), Grundy County Health Council, MountainTOP and the South Cumberland Community Fund.
VISTA volunteers will commit to a 12-month term of service, beginning in August 2014 and will focus on addressing poverty alleviation through a variety of programs, such as education, health and hunger. Each VISTA volunteer will be matched with a service site at an off-campus, nonprofit partner where he or she will connect the resources of the campus and the community to further strengthen their work. For more information contact professor Jim Peterman, director of Community Engaged Learning, by email, <jfpeterm@sewanee.edu>.
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