Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Niles, Park Ridge, Skokie
- 1,680 current girl members *
- 533 current adult volunteers *
VISTA Volunteers
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VISTA Vacancies
- Community Sponsorship Ambassador
- Coordinates with council's community partnership campaign staff manager to give organizational presentations (women's groups, Rotary, collaborators); becomes very familiar with all six recruitment and service delivery options that occur in all communities within the VISTA.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Family Involvement Ambassador
- Formerly Family Partnership Ambassador. Manages family partnership campaign; encourages fathers, grandparents, and friends to oversee the presentations and process working to make goals; coordinates plans with staff individual campaign specialist; encourages troop committees, shared leadership, and family participation.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Girl Membership Ambassador
- Formerly Director of Organizers/Recruiters. Plans for recruiting new girl members through various school and community family recruitment events (utilizing the six recruitment and service delivery options); coordinates work of many partner school organizers/recruiters and liaisons; sees girls are placed in existing and new troops/groups; forwards membership registration forms and membership registration fees to registration ambassador; monitors activities of local community events coordinators.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Multicultural Ambassador
- Monitors potential and overlooked population groups; compares local data to potential (outlined in Adult Pluralism Action Plan); keeps alert to community changes through various media outlets (newspaper, chamber, school newsletters); reports diversity to staff Hispanic initiatives specialist; requests translated materials for non-English speaking groups through staff Hispanic initiatives specialist; gets involved with groups through community events.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Cookie Program Ambassador
This volunteer is the point person to the council Product Program Group and has ultimate accountability for the Cookie Program with the
If Interested:Contact: Kathy Stigler, Product Program Manager
Girl Scouts - Illinois Crossroads Council
847-573-0500 ext. 1014 - If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- Public Relations Ambassador
- Formerly public relations/publicity. Reports communities' activity news to local newspapers and radio, following a monthly theme calendar; shares same information with staff director of public affairs and external relations so that feature stories and press releases can be developed and reported to the board of directors; becomes VISTA spokesperson in the various communities.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.
- VISTA Manager/United Way Ambassador
- Each VISTA Manager/UW Ambassador oversees a VISTA "cabinet" and reports to the director of membership and program. A staff membership specialist assists. VISTA manager/UW ambassador; creates meeting agendas; collects current information from each ambassador; coordinates the work of the cabinet.
- If Interested:
- Contact: VISTA 5 Manager/United Way Ambassador.