Impact Doubles Staff for Upcoming Year 

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Beginning service in the fall of 2004 with three staff members, Impact will begin the 2008-09 academic year with eleven full-time and eight part-time staff members housed across the state. Individuals who work with Impact Alabama spend a year of service after graduation at a unique, nationally recognized organization fighting poverty in Alabama.  Our stipend-based volunteers who commit to a year of service oversee the implementation of  our FocusFirst and SaveFirst Initiatives and play an integral role in the success of both of these initiatives.  Our growing team will enable us to continue expanding each of our initiatives and improve the quality of life of thousands of Alabamians.  

College Students Invited to Apply to Serve as Impact Campus Recruitment Coordinators

Campus Recruitment Coordinators (CRC) are campus ambassadors who are responsible for developing and executing a campus-specific campaign to recruit talented and diverse leaders to join our team following graduation.

 Impact Alabama's fundamental staffing model relies on employing talented, socially conscious recent college graduates for one or two years following graduation. Believing in the uniqueness of our initiatives and the high quality of our programming, we feel that we will continue to attract extraordinary staff members.

To learn more about joining this effort, please click here.




FocusFirst Reaches Milestone: 33,000 Children Screened for Vision Problems Throughout Alabama

Used with permission of Portico magazine.

College Student Initiative Reaches all 67 Counties 
Conducting Screenings in 420 Childcare Centers

Since 2004, more than 900 students representing seventeen Alabama colleges, universities, and high schools have participated with the FocusFirst Initiative and provided high-tech vision screenings for over 33,000 children in Alabama. Analyses of the results have indicated that approximately 12.4% of the children screened were in need of follow-up eye care that is coordinated through Sight Savers of Alabama.

  • 2004-05: 4,541 children in 24 counties 
  • 2005-06: 7,796 children in 46 counties
  • 2006-07: 8,986 children in 57 counties
  • 2007-08: 12,000 children in 67 counties

FocusFirst provides a cost-effective direct response to the vision problems of children who live in urban and rural poverty in Alabama.  FocusFirst is a collaborative effort among campuses across Alabama, Vision Research Corporation, Sight Savers of Alabama, the Success by Six program of the United Way of Central Alabama, and the Alabama Head Start Association.  

To learn more about the FocusFirst Initiative or to get involved, please visit our website at www.impactalabama.org.