Empowering people for inclusive communities (epic) mission is to prepare young people with disabilities to become actively engaged community leaders through education, leadership development, and…

Empowering people for inclusive communities (epic) mission is to prepare young people with disabilities to become actively engaged community leaders through education, leadership development, and community service. Epic operates as a 501(c)3 nonprofit through its fiscal sponsor, triangle, INC. Triangle's mission is through support, challenge, and opportunity; triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. Triangle is committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability. The two proposed vista projects align with the economic opportunity and education focus areas. The vista projects will seek to make the epic service warrior program a national model, with teams of youth with disabilities engaging in community service across the country. Epic originally set out to have one vista member a year that will contribute to the goals of the project by performing activities such as building service warrior program capacity through volunteer recruitment, creating a best practices manual, creating a site replication manual, and expanding the service warrior sites over the course of 5 years. In addition to this original plan, epic requested and received two vista positions in 2018. The second position worked to create best practices for the replication and execution of epic's two signature events to ensure their success when done in a new city. This year epic is requesting two americorps vistas for the upcoming year to focus on the replication and expansion of the epic community training program and to create new programs and systems to increase individual giving to support epic's program expansions.