Effective Practices for Participant Recruitment and Development
- Assessing and addressing member training needs
- Assessing training needs quickly
- Assigning importance to member evaluation
- Assisting community-based organizations in delivering technology services
- Awarding training scholarships to national and community service programs
- Bringing technology support to schools in low-income communities
- Bringing together service groups around a broadcast of Everyday Heroes
- Building a recruitment plan
- Building retention rates
- Celebrating AmeriCorps Team Leaders
- Changing from staff supervision to a team-based system
- Choosing icebreakers with a purpose
- Closing activities for service leaders' training
- Closing service and opening new doors
- Combining job skills, training, and GED acquisition for disadvantaged youth
- Communicating effectively with the media
- Conducting value-based volunteer training
- Connecting training activities with the term of service
- Coordinating AmeriCorps recruitment efforts with local colleges
- Crafting a comprehensive approach to leadership development
- Crafting a team-specific vision statement
- Creating a member development plan
- Creating a roadmap to civic engagement
- Creating a yearbook for graduating AmeriCorps members
- Creating a bilingual after-school program
- Creating follow-up e-mail for online applicants
- Creating inexpensive graduation gifts for AmeriCorps members
- Creating portfolios to capture AmeriCorps experiences
- Creating strategies to deal with absenteeism among members
- Cultivating creative followers with a shared leadership model
- Delivering civic engagement training to national service programs
- Delivering successful presentations: public speaking, PowerPoint, and flip chart
- Demonstrating the goals of AmeriCorps service
- Designing a site supervisor orientation and training plan
- Designing a successful pre-service training session
- Developing a community adult literacy program
- Developing a training calendar and newsletter
- Developing an AmeriCorps pre-service training program
- Developing eight core competencies for successful volunteer programs
- Developing partnerships as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member
- Drafting a collective vision statement
- Earning a graduate degree while serving as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member
- Earning graduate credits in education while serving in AmeriCorps
- Encouraging AmeriCorps members to write their stories
- Encouraging feedback from volunteers and staff
- Encouraging positive responses to members' stresses throughout a service term
- Ensuring AmeriCorps members meet eligibility requirements
- Establishing strong ties to local college and university career service offices
- Exploring life's options with informational interviews
- Exploring ways volunteer managers can use value-based leadership
- Facilitating meetings effectively
- Finding a job after AmeriCorps service
- Finding a job in the environmental sector
- Finding guest trainers
- Forming and sustaining an InterCorps Council
- Generating discussions about service, justice, and civic engagement
- Grouping purposefully for effective training
- Helping members plan for professional development
- Hosting a panel discussion with former AmeriCorps members as part of a training
- Instituting a day of service with new student orientation
- Instituting a new service day by combining university and community resources
- Integrating community into training
- Interviewing volunteer applicants using role playing
- Involving college students and community members in a social awareness event
- Implementing and moderating a professional panel or forum
- Making ends meet on a service member's budget
- Making the most of extended AmeriCorps training time
- Marketing your project
- Maximizing the value of the AmeriCorps education award
- Motivating and sustaining members
- Partnering with community institutions to air promotional videos
- Passing the torch from one member to another
- Planning a participant or staff retreat
- Planning a training for AmeriCorps members from multiple sites
- Planning and conducting effective training sessions
- Planning and implementing a successful statewide service event
- Planning for National Volunteer Week: 20 tips
- Planning for program start-up
- Planning for sustainability
- Planning for the program year
- Planning statewide cross-stream leadership training
- Planning your recruitment process
- Preparing for pre-service training of members
- Promoting National Volunteer Week
- Providing citizenship training to AmeriCorps members
- Providing part-time AmeriCorps opportunities for college and university students
- Recognizing student volunteers with leadership awards
- Recognizing volunteers throughout the service year
- Recording members' hours using a customized timesheet
- Recruiting AmeriCorps members in rural areas
- Recruiting AmeriCorps*VISTA members and volunteers with a newspaper column
- Recruiting community service members and keeping them focused
- Recruiting diverse volunteers
- Recruiting hard-to-find members
- Recruiting male volunteers
- Recruiting members and volunteers for environmental programs
- Retaining members through conflict resolution
- Retaining volunteers through long training periods
- Running an effective Teaching Fellows program
- Screening online volunteers
- Setting clear expectations of guest trainers
- Setting up Homes for Service for AmeriCorps*VISTA members
- Supporting community technology center (CTC) AmeriCorps*VISTA members
- Supporting volunteers with mental illness
- Talking about AmeriCorps
- Talking to community gatekeepers about becoming AmeriCorps program partners
- Teaching peer conflict resolution skills
- Teaching students about professionalism
- Training AmeriCorps*VISTA site supervisors through regional trainings
- Training with style
- Transitioning from AmeriCorps to education or employment
- Uniting college campuses to share civic engagement experiences
- Using a personal style inventory for volunteer and member development
- Using a policy and procedure manual to guide volunteers
- Using a project calendar to assist with recruiting and scheduling volunteers
- Using a "Solution Circle" as a community capacity tool for solving problems
- Using a song to teach rules to new AmeriCorps members
- Using a team project to conduct a group interview
- Using ACT leaders to support a multi-site AmeriCorps program
- Using members as training resources
- Using movies to educate and motivate AmeriCorps members
- Using Open Space Technology to enhance creativity at meetings and events
- Using small groups to maximize training
- Using training toys in your sessions
- Writing white papers for sustainability
