Our House e-newsletter February & March 2012 | Page 8

by Amanda Woods, Communications Specialist (VISTA)

Everyone knows City Year, travelling in packs in their
bright red jackets, but do you know VISTA? Of all the
branches of the community service organization
AmeriCorps, VISTA seems to be the most misunderstood.
A Facebook conversation about this last fall with a
friend, a Texas VISTA, led to my post, “No one knows
what VISTA is. We may as well call it the secret service!”
A few lols later, that post became this article.
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