For over 40 years, members of AmeriCorps*VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) have actively served low-income areas by mobilizing people, businesses and organizations with the goal of creating sustainable healthy communities. The mission of AmeriCorps*VISTA has remained since mandated by Congress in 1964, “AmeriCorps*VISTA builds permanent infrastructure in non-profit organizations to help them more effectively bring individuals and communities out of poverty.”

Beginning in the summer of 2009, Oregon Campus Compact and the Portland Schools Foundation, (now known as All Hands Raised),  joined together to address the high school completion rate in Multnomah County, Oregon by connecting Summer AmeriCorps VISTA Members with Ninth Grade Counts programs and projects. In the Summer of 2012 the program will continue make 9th Grade Count!

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