AmeriCorps
South Florida LISC is entering its 9th year as a participant in the National LISC AmeriCorps Program with the Corporation for National and Community Service. The South Florida LISC AmeriCorps Program is our local strategy to develop human capital within the local community development industry and to build organizational/internal capacity within the CDCs. The field office works closely with the CDCs and the community through strategic planning sessions, neighborhood meetings, surveys and focus groups to identify pressing needs in the community, proposed activities and anticipated results to redevelop the CDCs target areas. The AmeriCorps Program is one of the tools used to arrive at creating a livable community.

South Florida LISC uses the CDC model and the integration of community residents and other stakeholders to foster revitalization in the inner-city areas. The revitalization model concentrates on community building activities, social issues in the community as well as physical development, which eliminates slum and blight and spurs asset development and wealth building in the low-income communities.

The AmeriCorps made a difference in Mississippi in 2006...  Click to read...