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94.013 Volunteers In Service To America
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AmeriCorps Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) is the national service program of AmeriCorps designed specifically to fight poverty. VISTA supports efforts to alleviate poverty by engaging individuals, 18 years and older, from all walks of life, in a year of full-time service with a sponsoring organization (sponsor) to create or expand programs designed to bring individuals and communities out of poverty.
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In FY 2017, 893 AmeriCorps VISTA projects were supported and over 8400 AmeriCorps VISTA members were placed throughout the U.S. Those VISTAs generated over $206M in cash and in-kind resources for anti-poverty projects.
In the first half of FY 2018, 333 AmeriCorps VISTA projects were awarded.
Accomplishments for FY2019 Total resources leveraged by VISTAs: $173,522,209 Total community volunteers mobilized: $550,502 Total volunteer hours mobilized: 3,908,327 Total individuals supported with opioid programming: 752,365
AmeriCorps VISTA members serving in FY2020 were able to generate over $199M in cash and in-kind resources for their sponsoring organization’s anti-poverty programming, while mobilizing over 1.2M hours of community volunteer service to implement the programming and support the sponsoring organizations.
VISTA projects operating in FY2021 were able to leverage over $199,000,000 dollars in cash and in-kind resources for their programming, as well as recruit over 310,000 community volunteers who served over 2.7 million hours.
Established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and reauthorized under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, the AmeriCorps VISTA (VISTA) program has been serving the American people in low-income communities for almost 60 years. AmeriCorps VISTA places its members with organizations focused on anti-poverty programming in economic opportunity, education, healthy futures, and other critical focus areas. In FY 2022, over 6,000 AmeriCorps members started service in the VISTA program at approximately 650 projects which reported VISTA members generating over $1.9 million in cash and in-kind resources and over 2 million hours of community volunteer service hours to build out their anti-poverty programming.
Fiscal Year 2023: Established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 and reauthorized under the Domestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973, the AmeriCorps VISTA (VISTA) program has been serving the American people in low-income communities for almost 60 years. AmeriCorps VISTA places its members with organizations focused on anti-poverty programming in economic opportunity, education, healthy futures, and other critical focus areas. In FY 2022, over 6,300 AmeriCorps members started service in the VISTA program at approximately 625 projects which reported VISTA members generating over $120 million in cash and in-kind resources and over 2.2 million hours of community volunteer service hours to build out their anti-poverty programming.
Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
