In 2002, AmeriCorps*VISTA members began lending a hand in the business arena through a new volunteer model called Entrepreneur Corps. With proven business skills and experience, these AmeriCorps VISTA members handled everything from financial modeling and developing marketing plans to holding information sessions and planning fundraisers. They helped to bring low-income Americans into the economic mainstream through a variety of initiatives, including microlending, financial literacy education, and home ownership programs. (© 1999 Corporation for National and Community Service- Office of Public Affairs) - Corporation for National and Community Service

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Assigned to the Missouri Division of Corrections in July 1980, VISTA member Rose T. Evans, 69, counsels inmate Linda Jack at Renz Correctional Center in Cedar City. Evans, a retired school teacher, recruits and trains community volunteers and inmates to provide activities in music, dance, sewing, crafts, cosmetology, and correspondence for the prisoners. (© 1980 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

Today a Congresswoman, Gwendolynne Moore was among this group of VISTA members who completed a Pre-Service Orientation in 1982, conducted by Milwaukee Associates in Urban Development, a VISTA project sponsor in Wisconsin. U.S. Representative Moore is in the first row, second from the left. Linda Sunde, also a VISTA alumna and now the Corporation State Director in Wisconsin, is in the second row, left. (© 1982 Corporation for National and Community Service - Office of Public Affairs)

For as long as she can remember, Melissa Long has been involved in community service and service-learning. An AmeriCorps*VISTA member with the Economic and Community Development Institute in Ohio in 2003, Long helped small community-based groups earn almost $2 million to help secure homes, employment, and educational opportunities for low-income families. (© 1990 Corporation for National and Community Service- Office of Public Affairs)

James Thibeault moved from Massachusetts in 1970s to serve as a VISTA in Malden, West Virginia. While there, he joined coal miners' wives and widows to start Cabin Creek Quilts Cooperative, which is still operative today. In this 1999 photo, Thibeault, who was then director of the cooperative, hangs a quilt on the fence for passing visitors to see. Today, Thibeault is a gardener for Good Living Assisted Living, which he owns, and an active volunteer with Jisaidie Cottage Industries, a handicraft cooperative in Nairobi, Kenya. Thibeault's volunteer assistance helped Kenyan artisans living with HIV/AIDS penetrate European and American handicraft markets. (© 1999 Corporation for National and Community Service- Office of Public Affairs)

AmeriCorps VISTA has a long history of working with faith-based organizations that serve poor communities around the country. AmeriCorps VISTA members help these groups, many of them small and often centered around local places of worship, devise innovative and effective ways to reduce violence, nurture the spirit of entrepreneurship, improve student literacy, combat drug addiction, and increase self-sufficiency among the poor. (© 1999 Corporation for National and Community Service- Office of Public Affairs)

In 2002, AmeriCorps*VISTA members began lending a hand in the business arena through a new volunteer model called Entrepreneur Corps. With proven business skills and experience, these AmeriCorps VISTA members handled everything from financial modeling and developing marketing plans to holding information sessions and planning fundraisers. They helped to bring low-income Americans into the economic mainstream through a variety of initiatives, including microlending, financial literacy education, and home ownership programs. (© 1999 Corporation for National and Community Service- Office of Public Affairs)

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