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AmeriCorps VISTA Economic Development Coordinator

Description: 

The Legal Aid Society serves the metropolitan city of Louisville, Kentucky, the 26th largest city in the United States. The mission of the Legal Aid Society is to pursue justice for people in poverty. The Legal Aid Society provides free legal services to the most disadvantaged in our community, assisting with legal issues that threaten our client’s health, safety, and stability. Last year, Legal Aid helped 3,861 people who had nowhere else to turn. The Legal Aid Society seeks a VISTA to help create, launch, organize, administer and create sustainability for Legal Aid’s Economic Development Program. This is a new and cutting-edge program that will help fight poverty by providing the legal tools needed to start and sustain a small business. Legal Aid will put the tools necessary to succeed in business into the hands of people who would otherwise be unable to afford such professional legal expertise. The VISTA will help form this program from the ground up and ensure its sustainability following the conclusion of the VISTA placement.

Member Duties : The VISTA will 1. Gather information about resources available to business owners in the community. 2. Coordinate with community partners. 3. Create legal materials – including a “tool-kit” to assist small business owners. 4. Reach out to populations in the community in need of this assistance. 5. Create and implement a public awareness campaign about the availability of services through the Legal Aid Society for this and Legal Aid’s services in general. 6. Seek out funding sources and secure grants to support this program. 7. Recruit and coordinate with volunteer attorneys. 8. Create a training module for clients and implement a regular training schedule for the Economic Development Program. 9. Discover ways that Legal Aid can support small business owners so as to fight poverty.

Information

Submission Deadline: 
July 27, 2015
Organization Information: 
Legal Aid Society, Inc.
416 W. Muhammad Ali Blvd. Suite 300
Louisville, KY 40202
United States
Phone: 5026143118