Clothing

• Providing clothes for people transitioning into the workforce

Collaboration

• Building successful partnerships with faith-based organizations
• Building the capacity of community organizations: possible outcome
• Planning and implementing a successful statewide service event
• Working with faith-based organizations: challenges and benefits
• Developing partnerships as an AmeriCorps* VISTA member

Corporate Sponsorship

• Providing social services with corporate volunteers
• Enlisting businesses to adopt home meal routes

Housing

• Operating a building materials warehouse to support an affordable housing program
• Retrofitting buildings in high-risk areas for disaster mitigation

Human Needs

• Supporting faith-based and secular group efforts to provide for human needs
• Buying nutritional food on a limited budget
• Distributing perishable foods to low-income families
• Conducting home visits to families in need
• Strengthening rural economic development through a community action team
• Developing community service programs for public housing residents
• Providing a skills exchange network for people with disabilities and low incomes

Mentoring

• Partnering with county extension agents to train mentors
• Matching volunteer mentors with adults working towards self-sufficiency

Public Safety

• Conducting a hurricane response exercise
• Developing and implementing a Block Parent Program
• Preparing people with disabilities for evacuation, shelter, and recovery during national emergencies
• Assessing the information needs of health care providers in rural areas
• Supporting female victims of crime and their families
• Supporting family and friends of homicide victims
• Responding to environmental needs after a flood
• Preparing for a national security emergency
• Responding to disasters with CERT trained volunteers
• Understanding how victims respond during a disaster
• Providing emotional support for volunteers in disaster situations

Technology

• Assisting community-based organizations in delivering technology services
• Bringing technology support to schools in low-income communities

Transportation

• Operating a program that provides transportation to low-income families
• Operating a program that provides reliable used cars to low-income families

Volunteer Management

• Understanding the role of staff during disaster deployment and recovery
• Retaining volunteers through long training periods
• Managing volunteers in times of a disaster
• Volunteering by, in, and with low-income communities
• Providing guidelines for inexperienced volunteers
• Assessing training needs quickly
• Teaching peer conflict resolution skills

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