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By Talia Schmidt
My AmeriCorps VISTA Leader, Abby Zent.
When I moved to the boonies, which some people call Montana, I worried that I wouldn’t find a group of friends like I’d had in...
By Lois Nembhard, Acting Director, Social Innovation Fund
As
someone who has had the privilege of working in the Social Innovation Fund,
almost since the initiative was announced by First Lady Michelle Obama, its status as a six-year-old program has helped nearly 700,000 people. I am especially proud of two moments this past week.
On
Monday, the White House hosted the My Brother’s Keeper “What Works Showcase.”
This showcase included a science-fair meets demo-day
style event with more than 30 of the nation’s premiere organizations that are
applying rigorous evidence of impact across MBK’s
cradle-to-college-and-career-goals.
Of those 30+ organizations, 19 are part of the Social Innovation Fund’s network of grantees and sub-grantees.
What unites all of our grantees is a focus on finding what works and making it work for more people. That means mentoring efforts that keep kids engaged and on track to finish school, or other initiatives that help people, including homeless veterans, find new jobs.
In fact, President Obama echoed this What
Works philosophy last week in a speech about employing technology to help us
address challenges, “We’ve applied data and evidence
to social policy, to find out what works, to scale up when it works - and stop
funding things that don’t, thereby fostering a new era of social
innovation.“
Garrett County, MD Photo courtesy of lightscapesphotography.wordpress.com
Since 1965, AmeriCorps VISTA members have served rural America, working with communities to build economic opportunity, increase access to healthcare services, and ensure the health and prosperity of families. One year after AmeriCorps VISTA launched its partnership to improve rural communities: Rural IMPACT, we have the opportunity to hear from Daphne Gooding, a Rural IMPACT
AmeriCorps VISTA member serving the Garrett County Community Action Committee
in Oakland, MD.
For Daphne, the decision to become an AmeriCorps VISTA member began after a long career in higher education. As someone who has both lived and studied the complexities of poverty in Rural America, Daphne knew right away that the position of a Rural IMPACT AmeriCorps VISTA member was the right opportunity for her.
This is my third year serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member.
I really love what I do: community capacity building with the emphasis on
reducing poverty in rural areas. I spent two years serving in Big Ugly, WV
before returning to Garrett County, MD to be closer to my grandchildren. So far
as a VISTA member with the Garrett County Community Action Committee, I have
learned much more than I have taught. And I have received so much more help than
I have given.
Daphne Gooding, Rural IMPACT AmeriCorps VISTA member
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