PCCE- Drexel University (Dornsife Center)

The Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships (Dornsife Center) is Drexel's community-based resource center, where the Drexel community and West Philadelphia residents and partners collaborate on issues of shared importance. In April of 2013, the founders of the Dornsife Center held a planning workshop where more than 60 people created the foundation of a shared vision. To guide our work, we also created the Dornsife Community Advisory Council, a 24-seat group that meets regularly to help keep the Dornsife Center true to that shared vision. With over 25 ongoing programs, the Dornsife Center addresses community needs in the areas of the arts, education, economic inclusion, and health and wellness. Through these programs, we have welcomed over 14,700 visits by 1,560 job seekers and other community residents to use our computer lab since 2018. Since 2014, we have shared over 22,000 meals with neighbors at our monthly community dinners. And through our partnership with Drexel’s law school, we have provided over 30,000 hours of legal help to residents to address job discrimination, estate planning, public benefits, post-conviction, and homeownership issues since 2014. The Dornsife Center serves the neighborhoods around Drexel University, which are home to ambitious residents who have struggled with a 51% poverty rate, high housing vacancy rates, serious crime, and low education levels that make residents uncompetitive in today’s economy. The VISTA member will build capacity by working with the Dornsife Center and local business and non-profit partners to integrate financial literacy curricula and resources into existing programs. Whether it is working alongside our community lawyering clinic, our Community Wellness HUB, or our workforce development center, the VISTA can have a tremendous impact in assessing needs, co-designing programs, creating systems for data collection, and building processes that will last beyond the term of the VISTA.

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Member Duties : The VISTA will perform the following tasks to build capacity and fulfill anti-poverty work: (1) Perform a needs assessment with program partners at the Dornsife Center. This could involve using survey, interview, and focus group methods in order to best understand the financial literacy programming needs for each partner and how to best deliver this programming, (2) co-design programs with the program partners to address financial literacy needs, (3) build strong data collection and evaluation systems to ensure we can evaluate the efficacy of the programming in achieving the goals of increasing financial literacy among participants, and (4) integrate processes to ensure that the financial literacy programming will continue beyond the tenure of the VISTA.

Program Benefits : Health Coverage* , On Campus resources and facilities , Relocation Allowance , Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend , Living Allowance , Childcare assistance if eligible , Training , Stipend , Housing , Education award upon successful completion of service .

• For details about AmeriCorps VISTA healthcare benefits, please visit https://americorpsvista.imglobal.com/ .
  
  

Terms

Permits working at another job during off hours , Permits attendance at school during off hours .

Service Areas

Community and Economic Development , Education .

Skills

Education , Writing/Editing , Computers/Technology , Teaching/Tutoring , Leadership , Team Work , Community Organization , Public Speaking , Conflict Resolution , Communications , Fund raising/Grant Writing , Non-Profit Management , Business/Entrepreneur , General Skills .

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Summary

Program Type:

AmeriCorps VISTA

Program

PCCE- Drexel University (Dornsife Center)

Program Start/End Date

06/01/2026 - 05/31/2027

Work Schedule Full Time

Education level

Some college

Age Requirement

Minimum: 18 Maximum: None

Program Locations PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia/Wilmington/Atlantic City

Accepting Applications

From 02/15/2026 To 06/01/2026

Contact Lucio Perez

3141 Chestnut St

Philadelphia PA 19104

5702955670

Lucio@pcce.org

Listing ID 121598