Project News

December was a less than joyous month for us at the CTC VISTA Project. Paul Hansen, the Project Director, passed away and there has been much sadness but also much thoughtful and inspiring messages and memories. We've collected all of them here: http://ctcvista.org/paul Thank you to everyone that sent us an email, or left a message. It has been greatly appreciated.…read more

Paul Hansen, husband, artist and Director of the CTC VISTA Project, passed away on Monday night. Paul's humor, optimism and vision will be greatly missed. We have also set up a page on the CTC VISTA Website with links to some of Paul's work, art and influences (it is in progress and suggestions would be appreciated): http://ctcvista.org/paul …read more

Holiday-ish greetings from the CTC VISTA Project. This is always a busy season for us nonprofits, but we hope that you can take a moment to read the following news and announcements. As always, we're here to help make your VISTA service and supervision the best possible. Quick News The Nonprofit Technology Conference is coming up SOON (more on this below) SEE what the CTC VISTAs are up to: http://ctcvista.org/vista-workspace CONTACT Ben or your VISTA Leader (http://ctcvista.org/contact_us) if with any issues or conerns about VISTA service.…read more

November has brought with it a chill to the air, and considering we have 48 VISTAs currently serving in 15 different states, someone has got to have warmer weather than HQ here in Boston. Here's some info about what's new or useful from the CTC VISTA Project: +++ Quick News & Announcements +++ READ a little about the CTC VISTA Project in an article on TechSoup …read more

The CTC VISTA Project has been featured prominently in two publications recently. It's great to see the good work we do in print! The frontpage of TechSoup.org today has a feature article up about the CTC VISTA Project entitled VISTAs of Equal Access by Jennifer Anthony. …read more

The CTC VISTA Project is proud to announce four new VISTA members have joined our corps of innovative and hard-serving individuals. These VISTA members were sworn in last Friday, August 10 in Providence, Rhode Island. Clockwise from top: Stewart "Mac" Blair, Gabriel Fishman, Anna Simanovich and Wesley Kaplan. Two of these new members will be serving in Boston, at the Castle Square Tenants Organization and at the Hyde Square Task Force. Outside of Boston, one VISTA will be serving at Appalshop in Whitesburg, KY; and the other at HandyCapable Network (Arc of North Carolina Housing Development Services) in Greensboro, NC. …read more

Last Thursday the CTC VISTA Project swore in 25 new CTC VISTA members to begin a year of service to their community. …read more

I am very pleased to announce that our just-completed round of recruiting was very successful-- we have filled the nearly 40 slots that were available! This means that we WILL NOT be conducting a supplemental round of recruiting for August. In fact, we will not have another full round until next summer. Guidelines will be announced in the spring of '08.