Strive Together Allentown VISTA-UWGLV

Strive Together Allentown VISTA-UWGLV

United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley (UWGLV) is committed to improving lives and community conditions. We strive to create population level change in the areas of education, community stability, and healthy aging and ensure individuals who experience crises have the supports they need to rebound. We focus on strengthening the networks of providers that deliver services to address these concerns and through staff of UWGLV who lead efforts across all three-issue areas, we address issues at the programmatic and systemic levels seeking to identify and deal with the root causes.

We utilize the collective impact framework as a method for this problem solving of complex social issues and we embrace and promote practices as an asset towards creating positive change. Further help on this page can be found by clicking here.

Member Duties :
The Strive Together Allentown Ameri Corps VISTA will support Lehigh Valley's readiness to engage in a Strive Together Partnership by researching available resources, analyzing local systems and policies, and exploring alignment with early childhood education collaboratives. The VISTA will review Strive Together support resources and develop an engagement plan to help UWGLV Impact team members build targeted skills, create a policy landscape matrix aligning Strive Together Theory of Action metrics with relevant local and state elected officials, school boards, and policies, and work with the Vice President of Impact and Innovation to identify low-lift, high-impact opportunities to connect existing early childhood education collaborative efforts to a future Strive Together Partnership.

Program Benefits :
Relocation Allowance , Health Coverage* , Education award upon successful completion of service , Living Allowance , Training , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Childcare assistance if eligible .

Terms :

Permits attendance at school during off hours , Permits working at another job during off hours , Car recommended .

Service Areas :

Community and Economic Development , Neighborhood Revitalization , Hunger , Children/Youth , Community Outreach , Homelessness , Housing , Health , Education .

Skills :

Public Health , Leadership , General Skills , Recruitment , Youth Development , Social Services , Writing/Editing , Public Speaking , Team Work , Urban Planning , Teaching/Tutoring , Computers/Technology , Community Organization , Education , Fund raising/Grant Writing , Conflict Resolution , Communications , Counseling , Non-Profit Management .