Indianapolis Rotary Foundation Grant Recipient, Jameson Camp is seeking to fill two full-time AmeriCorps VISTA positions for community outreach and development.  The positions would start in mid-August and the service term is 12 months.  VISTA is a great opportunity for young professionals and others to gain valuable work experience and assist a nonprofit in capacity building. Benefits include a small living stipend, an education award at the end of service, and health coverage. The three open positions focus on community outreach, marketing, and development.

Jameson Camp is a year-round serving youth agency offering a variety of programs including residential summer camp and outdoor education. Nestled on over 100 acres on the Westside of Indianapolis, it is just 15 minutes from downtown. Interested applicants must be a college graduate and must apply through AmeriCorps website. Benefits include a living stipend, health coverage, and an education award upon completion. Click on the descriptions below for more information.

VISTA Positions Available

1. Community Liaison: Engage the local community! Build new relationships with local businesses and organizations to gain community awareness, resources, and volunteers for Jameson Camp. Click now for opportunity listing and to apply.
2. Development: Interested in fundraising for a growing nonprofit? Gain experience prospecting and cultivating individual donors and corporate sponsors. Click now for opportunity listing and to apply.

For more information, you may also contact Cassandra Tice, Development Manager at Jameson Camp.  Her contact information is cassandra@jamesoncamp.org or 317-241-2661.

Business owner Kim Brand posed a question to a crowd of mostly elderly listeners.

“They all laughed when I said, ‘How many of you took shop classes?’ They all raised their hands,” Brand said. “I said, ‘How many of you have grandkids who are in shop classes?’ Nobody raised their hands. Nobody. We’ve abandoned what I think is a sort of deep, DNA capacity to tinker.”

Brand’s Indianapolis-based company, 3D Parts Manufacturing, responded to a lack of interest in engineering and manufacturing by working with Indianapolis area teachers to incorporate 3D printers into classroom lessons as a way to promote interest in technology and engineering among students.

Read the full article on IBJ, here.

Kim Brand will be our Tuesday Program on June 17, 2014