Verner center for early learning seeks an americorps vista grant for 3 standard vistas and 1 cost-share vista

This grant will increase current volunteer capacity, allow verner to better share the benefits of early childhood education, increase the program outcomes for all of verner programs, and create a sustainable infrastructure for the volunteer program. Verner's mission is to "foster holistic learning environments where young children and families thrive." verner has four pillars to our mission statement. 1. High quality early care and education 2. Strong partnerships with families and the community 3. Health and nutrition services 4. Professional training for early childhood educators and students verner chose capacity building and education as the focus area for this multi-year project. We seek vistas to help build capacity in building infrastructure, financial resources for long-term sustainability, volunteerism and community partnerships. Even though this project grant must be renewed from year to year verner seeks to utilize vistas for 3 years at a minimum. Vistas will focus on increases in overall capacity in all years, but for year one they will specifically focus on helping formulate better systems in the volunteer program, tracking in-kind, and in communications. The vistas will specifically focus on improving the system in year two so that IT reaches maximum efficiency and reaches a point of sustainability. In year three the vistas will attempt to replicate the system as IT has been created to ensure that IT has reached sustainability.