Application deadline May 15, 2024 @5pm CST
HOME Line, in partnership with AmeriCorps, seeks proposals from organizations interested in hosting a full-time AmeriCorps VISTA Tenant Organizer during the fall 2024-25 program year.
A HOME Line VISTA Tenant Organizer enables your organization to support low-income tenants in rental properties. This cohort of tenant organizers, placed in up to 5 community-based sites across the 7-county metro, will assist, inform, educate, and engage tenants living in properties that are at risk of loss of affordability and/or face substandard housing conditions.
Rather than provide short-term direct services, VISTA Tenant Organizers work to build your capacity to engage with and support renters for the long-term. They put infrastructure in place for creating, expanding, or improving programs for years beyond their service. Our VISTA Tenant Organizers develop program and training content; build community partnerships; improve volunteer recruitment, training, and management systems; conduct program evaluation and data collection/analysis models; support the creation of tenants’ associations, and secure resources to ensure long-term sustainability of programs.
At the same time, VISTA Tenant Organizers build their own leadership, explore career paths, pay for college, and become lifelong advocates for the communities they serve due to the power of their experience. It is a unique opportunity to invest in, coach, and mentor emerging leaders in the housing, neighborhood advocacy, and nonprofit fields.
As a host site, you provide the vision, project plan, day-to-day management of the project, and on-site supervision of the VISTA Tenant Organizer. HOME Line provides training and technical assistance to you and the VISTA Tenant Organizer at all stages of the project.
A VISTA Tenant Organizer serves full-time for 12 months, with the potential option to continue AmeriCorps VISTA service for multiple years.
We invite your organization to participate in this annual selection process.
Application through Google Form
Contact:
Jess Zarik
VISTA Project Director
JessZ@homelinemn.org
219.669.5955
I see that it’s only targeting the 7-county metro area. But we really need to establish a tenant advocacy organization in the Greater Mankato area (Mankato, North Mankato, St. Peter). Would that be a possibility?
Hi Dana! Thank you for your question and advocacy! We can definitely expand beyond the Metro area as long as our work aligns with yours and we can give that VISTA Member a positive experience being a hybrid cohort member! We would love to see your application come through, and if you want to talk about details specific to your application, please email our VISTA Project Director Jess at jessz@homelinemn.org.