Building capacity through community service in Southwest West Virginia
The Sustainability Fair brought the Kanawha Valley’s social, economic, and environmentally sustainable “dots” (people and organizations) together in one place so that they could share their work with each other and the public. The event featured close to 100 booths as well as workshops, speakers, entertainment and off-site events. Over a dozen Step by Step [...]
Mon, January 26 2009 » AmeriCorps VISTA, Sustainability, Sustainability Fair » Comments Off
AmeriCorps VISTA is the national service program designed specifically to fight poverty. The VISTA (Volunteer in Service to America) program was founded in 1965 and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. VISTA members commit to serve full-time for a year at a nonprofit organization, fighting poverty through indirect service such as writing [...]
Mon, January 26 2009 » AmeriCorps VISTA, Life/Job Skill Development, Service Learning » Comments Off
![Step by Step WV posted a photo: Bonner Scholars from Earlam College in Indiana listened to a panel discussion of long-term West Virginia activists arranged by Step by Step's Executive Director Michael Tierney in April 2009. Afterward, the students interviewed the panelists on tape so that their [the activist's] stories can be adapted to digital stories.](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2676/3808418455_07d468b4db_t.jpg "Step by Step WV posted a photo: Bonner Scholars from Earlam College in Indiana listened to a panel discussion of long-term West Virginia activists arranged by Step by Step's Executive Director Michael Tierney in April 2009. Afterward, the students interviewed the panelists on tape so that their [the activist's] stories can be adapted to digital stories.")
