Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Host Site Application

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Welcome to the Campus Compact VISTA Application 

Thank you for your interest in hosting a Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Member for the 2025-2026 program year! The priority deadline for applicants is December 9th, 2024 and the application will close on January 22nd, 2025.


With a broad vision of higher education institutions as social change agents and a belief that addressing issues like poverty is essential to the vision of the public purpose of higher education, the Campus Compact AmeriCorps VISTA Program seeks to activate higher education-based host sites. We seek proposals from Campus Compact member institutions and their partners looking to utilize VISTA resources to enhance anti-poverty efforts on their campus or in their larger community.
Before completing this Campus Compact VISTA Host Site Application, please carefully review the Request For Proposals. Please refer back to the RFP while completing this application. 

Application Guidance

College campuses are involved in anti-poverty efforts in a myriad of ways and Campus Compact VISTA projects reflect a great diversity of needs and solutions. This application contains significant branching to accommodate that diversity, allowing applicants to build VISTA projects that will best serve the anti-poverty efforts on their campus.  Anytime you encounter a radio button or checkbox question, your choices will likely impact future questions. Although you will have the ability to navigate between pages as you complete the application, changing your selections on previous pages may cause you to lose some of your work. This prompts us to offer the following guidance:
  1. Do not disregard checkbox limitations: Some checkbox questions only allow for a limited number of selections. These are marked and will notify you if you select too many choices. If you select too many checkboxes, you will not be able to submit your application and will have done unnecessary work for choices you later have to de-select.
  2. Keep a separate copy of your text answers: Although FormAssembly autosaves your work as you navigate between pages, changing checkbox or radio button selections may cause you to lose your work. We recommend copying and pasting narrative answers in to a separate word document to prevent lost work.
  3. Select "Save my progress and resume later" to revisit your application: You will be asked to provide an email address and create a password. This login information can be shared with others on your team or at a co-hosting site so they can collaborate on completing the application.
  4. Attend Host Site Application Office Hours: Register for session(s) here!
If you have questions or face technical difficulties, please reach out to Bella McKinney at bmckinney@compact.org 

Campus and Organization Information

College/University Look-Up


Choose the correct College/University from the dropdown. If not listed, or if primary applicant is a nonprofit or government agency, select "Not Listed" and type the name in the dialogue box that appears below.

Institution Information and Contacts


Please complete the following information about the college/university host site.















AmeriCorps expects all of its host sites to be ADA compliant. Please provide the proper contact to help us ensure your site meets federal guidelines.



Co-Hosting

















AmeriCorps expects all of its host sites to be ADA compliant. Please provide the proper contact to help us ensure your site meets federal guidelines.



Additional Counties Served



Primary Applicant Information
As the person primarily responsible for completing and submitting the application, please share your information. 








Your VISTA Project's Fundamentals

On this page you will answer questions to lay out the fundamentals of your project. Think of this page as a Mad Libs for your proposed VISTA project - each question builds on the last, creating the foundations of your project.

The choices you make on this page will determine the information required in subsequent pages of the application. Make selections carefully, but remember you can navigate back to this page to edit your responses, should you need to. Please refer to Section 3-E in the RFP for guidance.

***Note: Checkbox limitations will be enforced when you go to submit your application. Save yourself time and energy by only selecting the allowed number of checkboxes on applicable questions.***
Identifying your Project Type: 
We find that VISTA projects create impact at one of three levels: 
  • Program Change - Due to VISTA resources, a program that directly serves low-income beneficiaries by providing a specific, defined intervention is able to do one or multiple of the following: 
    1. Serve more or new beneficiaries (scale/reach)
    2. Improve outcomes for beneficiaries (effectiveness)
    3. Maintain service quality despite a decrease in resources (efficiency)
    4. Generate additional funding, volunteers, or partnerships (leveraged resources).
  • Organizational Change - Due to VISTA resources, an organization, campus, or office/department within a campus has an enhanced capacity to coordinate services at an organizational level for low-income beneficiaries. This allows the organization to do one or multiple of the following: 
    1. Serve new or expanded low-income beneficiaries (scale/reach)
    2. Provide tools to implement improved outcomes for low-income beneficiaries (effectiveness)
    3. Generate funding, a volunteer base, or partnerships (leveraged resources). 
  • Collective Impact - Due to VISTA resources, new infrastructure exists between the university and outside partner(s), resulting in the university and its partner(s) being better able to serve low-income beneficiaries in one or multiple of the following: 
    1. Serve new or expanded low-income beneficiaries (scale/reach)
    2. Provide tools or resources to implement improved outcomes for low-income beneficiaries (effectiveness)
    3. Generate funding or partnerships (leveraged resources) to implement an intervention that serves low-income beneficiaries.

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Collective Impact 


Your university/college and any partner organizations contributing to the collective impact project








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Identifying the Low-Income Population

In this section, you will be asked to provide more information about the low-income population that is ultimately served by the VISTA project, including how you determine low-income status and the unmet need your project or program seeks to fulfill. 
Low-income community members


Low-income college students

Low-income K-12 students



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The Anti-Poverty Focus of Your Program

In this section you will tell us about the anti-poverty focus of your proposed project. While a VISTA Member is not permitted to engage directly in anti-poverty interventions, it is important that we understand how the low-income population is ultimately served by your program, which will be enhanced by a VISTA Member's capacity building activities. 

For more information, please review Section 3-A, 3-B, and 3-C of the RFP for guidance. 
Post-High School Education and Support

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Anti-Poverty Interventions Breakdown: 
Delving deeper into your program, we would like to understand how it provides each  anti-poverty intervention(s) (selected on page 3) to low-income K-12 students. Please tell us the following information for each of the anti-poverty intervention(s):
  1. What is the intervention?
  2. When, where, and how is the intervention administered?
  3. Who implements this intervention and why are they the appropriate person to do so? 
If you are not able to answer each of these questions in detail for a selected anti-poverty intervention, then you may need to consider unselecting it on page 3. Based on your answer we should understand the basics of what this intervention is and how it is implemented.

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Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs
AmeriCorps collects data on the low-income individuals who are served by AmeriCorps programming. We collect data monthly from our VISTA projects, which we aggregate and report to AmeriCorps three times per year. 

In the case of the Campus Compact VISTA program, this means we need VISTA projects to be able to track and report the number of individuals that are served by the intervention(s) described above. Because we report aggregate numbers, beneficiaries need to be tracked individually (ie tied to an identifier) rather than just tallied.







This is the additional beneficiaries and should not include the number above
Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For each of your previously selected anti-poverty interventions, you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention and explain how this intervention will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Increased degree attainment for post-secondary students 
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.
Tutoring


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Mentoring


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Family Involvement


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Service Learning


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Summer Learning


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Beneficiary Tracking: Outcomes

In addition to reporting on the low-income individuals that AmeriCorps serves, we also collect and report data on the impact of the intervention on those served. There needs to be a tangible way in which this data is collected – surveys, interviews, exit tickets, etc. 

Because we are asking about impact, the individuals counted here must be the same individuals that you are collecting data on and reporting above; ie they went through the intervention that you are collecting data on. 




Healthy Futures

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Anti-Poverty Interventions Breakdown: 
Delving deeper into your program, we would like to understand how it provides each previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s) (pg 3) to low-income K-12 students. Please tell us the following information for each of the anti-poverty intervention(s):
  1. What is the intervention?
  2. When, where, and how is the intervention administered?
  3. Who implements this intervention and why are they the appropriate person to do so? 
If you are not able to answer each of these questions in detail for a selected anti-poverty intervention, then you may need to consider unselecting it on page 3. Based on your answer we should understand the basics of what this intervention is and how it is implemented.

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Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs
AmeriCorps collects data on the low-income individuals who are served by AmeriCorps programming. We collect data monthly from our VISTA projects, which we aggregate and report to AmeriCorps three times per year. 

In the case of the Campus Compact VISTA program, this means we need VISTA projects to be able to track and report the number of individuals that are served by the intervention(s) described above. We report “individuals served,” not single occurrences of accessing services or participating, and thus require a unique identifier to count your program beneficiaries’ participation. For example, if you only count visits or program attendance without collecting a unique identifier, such as beneficiary name, you may be double counting individuals who participate more than once in your program.







This is the additional beneficiaries and should not include the number above
Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For each of your previously selected anti-poverty interventions, you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention and explain how this intervention will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Increased food security
  • Improved health knowledge
  • Increased adoption of positive health behavior(s)
  • Improved health
  • Improved access to medical care
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.
Food Security - Outreach


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Food Security - Education and Training


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Food Security - Referrals


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Nutrition and Food Support


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Physical Activities


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Counseling/Coaching


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Access to Care - Outreach


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Access to Care - Education and Training


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Access to Care - Referrals


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Opioid/Drug Intervention


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Medical Services


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Disability Inclusion


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Beneficiary Tracking: Outcomes

In addition to reporting on the low-income individuals that AmeriCorps serves, we also collect and report data on the impact of the intervention on those served. There needs to be a tangible way in which this data is collected – surveys, interviews, exit tickets, etc. 

Because we are asking about impact, the individuals counted here must be the same individuals that you are collecting data on and reporting above; ie they went through the intervention that you are collecting data on. 




Economic Opportunity

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Anti-Poverty Interventions Breakdown: 
Delving deeper into your program, we would like to understand how it provides each previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s) (pg 3) to low-income beneficiaries. Please tell us the following information for each of the anti-poverty intervention(s):
  1. What is the intervention?
  2. When, where, and how is the intervention administered?
  3. Who implements this intervention and why are they the appropriate person to do so? 
If you are not able to answer each of these questions in detail for a selected anti-poverty intervention, then you may need to consider unselecting it on page 3. Based on your answer we should understand the basics of what this intervention is and how it is implemented.

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Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs
AmeriCorps collects data on the low-income individuals who are served by AmeriCorps programming. We collect data monthly from our VISTA projects, which we aggregate and report to AmeriCorps three times per year. 

In the case of the Campus Compact VISTA program, this means we need VISTA projects to be able to track and report the number of individuals that are served by the intervention(s) described above. Because we report aggregate numbers, beneficiaries need to be tracked individually (ie tied to an identifier) rather than just tallied.







This is the additional beneficiaries and should not include the number above
Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For each of your previously selected anti-poverty interventions, you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention and explain how this intervention will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Improved financial knowledge
  • Increased dollar value of tax returns
  • More Individuals transitioned to safe, affordable housing
  • Increased number of safe, affordable housing
  • Improved job readiness
  • Increased employment placement
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.
Financial Literacy Education


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Tax Preparation


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Housing Unit Development


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Housing Unit Repair


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Housing Placement/Assistance


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Job Training


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Job Placement 


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GED Education


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Other Adult Education


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Beneficiary Tracking: Outcomes

In addition to reporting on the low-income individuals that AmeriCorps serves, we also collect and report data on the impact of the intervention on those served. There needs to be a tangible way in which this data is collected – surveys, interviews, exit tickets, etc. 

Because we are asking about impact, the individuals counted here must be the same individuals that you are collecting data on and reporting above; ie they went through the intervention that you are collecting data on. 




K-12 Success

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Anti-Poverty Interventions Breakdown: 
Delving deeper into your program, we would like to understand how it provides each previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s) (pg 3) to low-income K-12 students. Please tell us the following information for each of the anti-poverty intervention(s):
  1. What is the intervention?
  2. When, where, and how is the intervention administered?
  3. Who implements this intervention and why are they the appropriate person to do so? 
If you are not able to answer each of these questions in detail for a selected anti-poverty intervention, then you may need to consider unselecting it on page 3. Based on your answer we should understand the basics of what this intervention is and how it is implemented.

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Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs
AmeriCorps collects data on the low-income individuals who are served by AmeriCorps programming. We collect data monthly from our VISTA projects, which we aggregate and report to AmeriCorps three times per year. 

In the case of the Campus Compact VISTA program, this means we need VISTA projects to be able to track and report the number of individuals that are served by the intervention(s) described above. Because we report aggregate numbers, beneficiaries need to be tracked individually (ie tied to an identifier) rather than just tallied.







This is the additional beneficiaries and should not include the number above
Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For each of your previously selected anti-poverty interventions, you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention and explain how this intervention will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Improved academic performance
  • Increased attendance
  • Decreased disciplinary incidents
  • Higher high school graduation rates
  • Increased post-secondary enrollment
  • Improved academic engagement
  • Improved social-emotional skills
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.
Tutoring


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Mentoring


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Other Classroom Support


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Out-of-School Time 


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Family Involvement


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Service Learning


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Summer Learning


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Classroom Teaching


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Opioid/Drug Intervention


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Social and Emotional Support


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Beneficiary Tracking: Outcomes

In addition to reporting on the low-income individuals that AmeriCorps serves, we also collect and report data on the impact of the intervention on those served. There needs to be a tangible way in which this data is collected – surveys, interviews, exit tickets, etc. 

Because we are asking about impact, the individuals counted here must be the same individuals that you are collecting data on and reporting above; ie they went through the intervention that you are collecting data on. 




Environmental Stewardship

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Anti-Poverty Interventions Breakdown: 
Delving deeper into your program, we would like to understand how it provides each previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s) (pg 3) to low-income K-12 students. Please tell us the following information for each of the anti-poverty intervention(s):
  1. What is the intervention?
  2. When, where, and how is the intervention administered?
  3. Who implements this intervention and why are they the appropriate person to do so? 
If you are not able to answer each of these questions in detail for a selected anti-poverty intervention, then you may need to consider unselecting it on page 3. Based on your answer we should understand the basics of what this intervention is and how it is implemented.

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Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs
AmeriCorps collects data on the low-income individuals who are served by AmeriCorps programming. We collect data monthly from our VISTA projects, which we aggregate and report to AmeriCorps three times per year. 

In the case of the Campus Compact VISTA program, this means we need VISTA projects to be able to track and report the number of individuals that are served by the intervention(s) described above. Because we report aggregate numbers, beneficiaries need to be tracked individually (ie tied to an identifier) rather than just tallied.







This is the additional beneficiaries and should not include the number above
Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For each of your previously selected anti-poverty interventions, you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention and explain how this intervention will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Reduced energy consumption
  • Increased knowledge of environmental practices
  • Increased adoption of environment-friendly behaviors 
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.
Weatherization Retrofitting


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Education and Training


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Service Learning


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Beneficiary Tracking: Outcomes

In addition to reporting on the low-income individuals that AmeriCorps serves, we also collect and report data on the impact of the intervention on those served. There needs to be a tangible way in which this data is collected – surveys, interviews, exit tickets, etc. 

Because we are asking about impact, the individuals counted here must be the same individuals that you are collecting data on and reporting above; ie they went through the intervention that you are collecting data on. 




Identifying the Intervention(s):
In year one, projects that operate at the organizational change level are required to identify the anti-poverty interventions and anti-poverty outcomes relevant to their work, though they are not required to set anti-poverty outcome targets until later in the three year arc.

In this section, you will be asked to identify the anti-poverty interventions your organization currently provides or plans to provide, detailing how VISTA resources will create organizational change allowing your university or college to better serve the low-income population.










Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs AmeriCorps collects data on the low-income individuals who are served by AmeriCorps programming. We collect data monthly from our VISTA projects, which we aggregate and report to AmeriCorps three times per year. 

In year one, we do not require organizational change projects to be able to track and report the number of individuals that are served by the intervention(s) described above. However, we would like to know the status of these systems as the expectation is that by year two, organizational change projects will be able to track and report on beneficiaries individually (ie tied to an identifier, rather than just tallied.





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Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For your previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s), you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention(s) and explain how this intervention(s) will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Increased food security
  • Improved health knowledge
  • Increased adoption of positive health behavior(s)
  • Improved health
  • Improved access to medical care
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings. In selecting 


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Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For  your previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s), you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention(s) and explain how this intervention(s) will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Improved financial knowledge
  • Increased dollar value of tax returns
  • More Individuals transitioned to safe, affordable housing
  • Increased number of safe, affordable housing
  • Improved job readiness
  • Increased employment placement
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.


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Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For your previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s), you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention(s) and explain how this intervention(s) will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Reduced energy consumption
  • Increased knowledge of environmental practices
  • Increased adoption of environment-friendly behaviors 
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.


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Evidence Base: 
AmeriCorps VISTA and Campus Compact seek to support evidence-based programs. For your previously selected anti-poverty intervention(s), you will choose the type of evidence that supports this intervention and explain how this intervention will lead to one or more of the following anti-poverty outcomes provided by AmeriCorps:
  • Increased degree attainment for post-secondary students 
Consider both available literature, and your programs own findings.


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Identifying the Outcome(s):
In year one, collective impact projects that operate at the systems change level are required to identify the anti-poverty focus area around which collaborating organizations will develop a shared strategy. While the specific intervention provided to the low-income population under that focus area does not need to be identified by applicants, we do require that the desired anti-poverty outcomes of the collective impact project are selected and described.

In this section, you will be asked to identify anti-poverty outcomes, detailing how VISTA resources will create systems change that will result in those outcomes for low-income beneficiaries. In selecting outcomes, please consider the feasibility of beneficiary tracking methods to measure those outcomes, as these will need to be developed and implemented during the projects three year arc. Only select outcomes that you reasonably expect to be able to measure and track. 








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Capacity Building 

Direct Service v Capacity Building

The difference between capacity building and direct service is central to all VISTA projects. VISTA Members engage in capacity building activities to enhance the impacts of anti-poverty interventions serving a low-income population, and are not permitted to do direct service, excepting specific circumstances detailed below.


Capacity building is a term commonly used to describe tasks, activities, and ideas that expand a program or organization’s ability to carry out its mission and vision and improve how an org/community meets the needs of its beneficiaries and puts them in a better position to address the issues they are aiming to solve. In the context of the VISTA program, capacity-building activities must be directed toward an anti-poverty intervention.


Direct service refers to services that immediately address the needs of an identified target population, program recipient, or client of an organization. In almost all cases, your host site is providing direct services (called anti-poverty interventions) to a specific population. VISTA capacity building efforts will help your organization carry out its direct service interventions. 


Imagine building a house. Direct service is laying the foundation and physically constructing the building. Capacity building is pricing out building materials, pulling permits, securing personnel to build the home, and ensuring the knowledge of how to properly build a home is retained and recorded for future use. 


So when is it okay to do direct service?

  1. A brief period of direct service is necessary to understand the service elements of the sponsoring organization.

    1. This means that your VISTA members can participate in direct service to get a better idea of what your organization does, or more clearly understand a system that they are trying to improve. 

    2. For example, your VISTA member who is going to revitalize your middle school mentor volunteer engagement strategy might participate in mentoring activities alongside volunteers during their orientation to better understand how things are currently being done.


  1. Direct service is incidental to the time and effort in carrying out the primary responsibilities of the member assignment.

    1. An example of this situation would be: a VISTA has been tasked with managing the food pantry (ex. stocking shelves, passing food to beneficiaries, working alongside volunteers).

    2. VISTA members can participate in direct service activities for a limited time to understand the different facets of their project. If the VISTA’s service is tied to making the pantry more efficient and accessible, it makes sense that the VISTA learns how the pantry operates, how volunteers work and what beneficiaries needs are.


  1. All hands-on-deck activities

    1. From time to time your office may host and have larger events that require the efforts and assistance of everyone on your staff. Your VISTA may even be contributing capacity building efforts to these events and activities. We understand you may need to use VISTA members to assist with the actual event, especially if all staff members, volunteers and students are also participating. Again, assuming your office isn’t hosting events weekly that require whole office assistance and this isn’t something that is part of the VISTAs day-to-day, this is acceptable!


  2. Emergency activities

    1. We understand that things happen and that occasionally VISTA members are asked to step in and help in a direct capacity when there is an unexpected situation. If a volunteer does not show up for a shift to unload the food pantry delivery and the VISTA can grab a few boxes and pitch in, they certainly can. However, VISTA members should not be regular coverage for emergencies – i.e., they can’t be the automatic backup for when a staff member or volunteer is out, and this is something that should happen occasionally and not regularly. 


When is it not okay to do direct service? As a standard, AmeriCorps and Campus Compact require that VISTA members do not engage in regular direct service daily or as a part of their regular VISTA service. Doing some direct service things like the aforementioned common examples is perfectly acceptable from time to time. We recognize that grey areas exist so if you are unsure, please ask us for clarification. 


It’s important to also note that a VISTA member’s capacity building service is designed to support an anti-poverty intervention, and VISTA activities should be connected to that specific anti-poverty intervention. As part of building capacity, VISTA members will often have to do things that fall into the category of clerical work – sending emails, scheduling meetings, etc. When a VISTA is doing these things, they should be directly connected to the anti-poverty intervention(s), or be something that everyone participates in.


Capacity Building Activities: On page 3 you selected checkboxes for the various capacity building activities a VISTA member will do to progress your project. Below is an opportunity for you to provide more detail about the kind of work a VISTA Member may do under each activity. These activities should be directly linked to the types of capacity building also selected on page three, meaning that you should be able to tell us how an activity will increase the scale/reach, effectiveness, or efficiency of your project, or how it will leverage resources for it.

For further guidance, please visit Section 3-D of the RFP.
Conduct Outreach







Community Assessment







Secure Financial Resources









Expand Community Awareness and/or Engagement 







Develop and/or Expand Partnerships 









Develop Materials 







Design or Develop Programs 







Enhance Technology Utilization 







Recruit or Support Volunteers









Beneficiary Tracking: Outputs

Beneficiary Tracking: Outcome Measures

Beneficiary Tracking: Outcomes

The Three Year Arc and Sustainability Information

VISTA projects take place over the course of a three year period, with an individual VISTA member serving for a one-year term. The activities VISTA Members complete are expected to build upon each other, moving the project to sustainability, or the ability to function without a VISTA member’s support. On the previous page you outlined the first year of this proposed VISTA project. Please outline what you imagine the VISTA member will do in year two and three to move the project forward and ensure sustainability. For further guidance, please consult Section 3-G of the RFP.
Program Change



Organizational Change

Year Two Data Expectations and Priorities




Year Three Data Expectations and Priorities


Collective Impact




Community Input:

One of the pillars of the AmeriCorps VISTA program is community empowerment. Projects are expected to involve the community, including the populations being served, in project design and implementation. In this section you will tell us how people served by this project have been involved so far in developing this VISTA project, and how they will be involved in shaping its implementation.

Additionally, you will answer questions below regarding the status of this VISTA project's Community Advisory Board. Community Advisory Board's are essential components of all VISTA projects. Should your project not have one in place, your VISTA Member may work to develop this body in the first year of your project.


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Community Advisory Board: As part of the VISTA program’s requirements, each project should have, or plan to have, a community advisory board in place. 


VISTA Member Supervision and Support

On this page you will enter information pertaining to how a VISTA member will be supported through their year of service. To review host site expectations, please read Section 5 of the RFP.






















VISTA Supervision Plan


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VISTA Non-Cash Supports

Providing non-cash support is helpful in recruiting and retaining VISTA members. Please check the boxes below indicating which supports your institution is able to commit to providing your VISTA member. Please note that non-cash support may not be in the form of direct cash payments or reimbursements. A detailed list of non-cash supports will be finalized in part II of the application.






Letter of Support

A letter of support from an organization's executive is required. This letter must be on the host site applicant's letterhead and be a signed document. The letter should detail knowledge of the proposal, how the goals of the project are aligned with the organizational mission, vision, and strategic priorities of the host organization, along with a statement of the host site's resource commitment to support the AmeriCorps member placement. This letter should also detail how the proposed partnership aligns with the existing civic engagement efforts on the campus (if applicable).
  • If the applicant is from a higher education institution, this letter must come from a President, Provost, Vice President, etc. 
  • If the applicant is a non-profit organization, this letter will come from the Executive Director or Board char. 
  • If the applicant is from a school, this letter will come from the Principal or Superintendent. 
Letters should be submitted in PDF format.


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Certification
By my signature below, I certify the information I provided on and in connection with this form is true and correct to the best of my knowledge. I also understand that any false statements or deliberate omissions on this form will result in my application being rejected and may impact my organization's eligibility for future opportunities. 

Additionally, I certify that our organization is committed to providing the nonrefundable Campus Compact AmeriCorps program fee upon placement of the AmeriCorps member with my site.

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