so the real reason I am getting so into financial stuff and learning more and more about financial education and asset development is my new job that I found through the AmeriCorps VISTA program.
I must admit AmeriCorps VISTA was not something I was always planning on doing after college. But, I'm so glad I looked into it and found something that fit my capabilities, interest and passion!
An AmeriCorps VISTA is a person that is matched to a nonprofit organization that is either just establishing itself or strating a new program. The VISTA's mission is to build capacity and ensure that the program is created in a way that it can sustain itself and last.
I am the second VISTA to work for this specific organization and so I'm trying to continue institutionalizing the aspects of some of our programs. The problem we're facing is that the SparkPoint program is a regional inititiative with funding from different sources, dependent on certain outcomes and we have not figured out the perfect process. We are under-staffed and trying to figure out how to expand while being effective and using people's time wisely.
In conclusion, people don't do this for the pay, they do it for the heart warming sort of reward. Not only am I getting this kind of reward, but I am learning and getting trained in different skills constantly, I am gaining invaluable work experience, and I love doing it (even though each day is getting more and more stressful, the more we realize we need to determine our process and start building the capacity to accomplish our goals!)
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