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Volunteers in Service to America
Extracted from the Wikipedia article AmeriCorps VISTA.
AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. PresidentJohn F. Kennedy originated the idea for VISTA, which was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. VISTA is an acronym for Volunteers in Service to America.