No longer in print, The Resource Connection was a periodic newsletter that covered topics such as recruitment, sustainability, and training. It was mailed to all national service programs from 1995 to 2002.

Volume 6

• Homeland Security, n1, Fall 2002

Volume 5

• Training Your Team, n3, Fall 2001
• Start-Up of a National Service Program, n2, Spring 2001
• Listening to the Voice of Youth/Youth As Leaders, n1, Winter 2001

Volume 4

• Technology in National Service Programs, n3, Fall 2000
• Sustainability, n2, Spring 2000
• Recruitment and Retention, n1, Winter 2000

Volume 3

• Recruiting and Retaining Members with Disabilities, n3, Winter 1998
• Effective Practices, n2, Fall 1997
• Next Steps: Life after AmeriCorps, n1, Summer 1997

Volume 2

• Help for Tutors, n4, Spring 1997
• Cross-Stream Collaboration, n3, Winter 1997
• Peer Exchange: Making Your Visit Count, n1, June 1996

Volume 1

• AmeriCorps Members Care for People with HIV/AIDS, n2, Summer 1995
• AmeriCorps National Training and Technical Assistance, n1, Spring 1995

Tables of Content

Homeland Security (PDF), v6, n1, Fall 2002

• Coordinating Emergency Management
• Seniors Aid Law Enforcement Agencies: Interview with a Volunteer Coordinator
• Programs Plan for Disaster Response: Helping Communities Weather the Storm
• Brooklyn Community Finds a Solution
• Service-Learning Takes Up the Challenge
• Library Spotlight: Disaster Response
• Best Practices in Emergency Management

Training Your Team (PDF), v5, n3, Fall 2001

• The Personal Touch: Training the Team Yourself
• Needs Assessment: Planning Your Training for Maximum Effectiveness
• Working with Outside Consultants and Trainers
• Finding Trainers in Your Community
• Using Your Members, Staff or Volunteers As Trainers
• Tapping into the National Network of Training Resources
• Evaluating Your Training
• Library Spotlight: Training
• Training Lingo Deciphered

Start-Up of a National Service Program (PDF), v5, n2, Spring 2001

• Starting Off Right: Corporation for National Service Programs
• The Key to Supervisory Success
• Building a Strong Peer Network Program
• Start-Up Blueprint (RTF) Customize the blueprint for your program's needs
• Start-Up Challenge: Recruitment for the Young Fathers Project
• Financial Management for New Programs
• Library Spotlight: Program Start-Ups
• Literacy Projects: Start-Up Issues and Concerns
• Starting Smart in Service-Learning

Listening to the Voice of Youth/Youth As Leaders (PDF), v5, n1, Winter 2001

• AmeriCorps*NCCC: Everyone Leads
• Being a Catalyst for Youth Empowerment and Youth Voice: My Experience with Youth As Resources
• Eight Reasons to Involve Youth
• Leadership Development and Service-Learning
• Let Knowledge Serve the City: An Evolving Service Paradigm
• Library Spotlight: Youth Voice
• President's Student Service Challenge
• Roundtable Discussion - Raising the Roof: Youth Voices on Giving
• Simple Strategies for Working with Young People
• Websites to Look at with a Youth Leadership Focus
• Youth Empowering Youth through Learn and Serve America
• Youth Service Leadership Board: Paving the Way for Youth Volunteers

Technology in National Service Programs (PDF), v4, n3, Fall 2000

• Bringing the National Service Community Together through Listservs
• Leading the Way in AmeriCorps Progress Reporting for Multiple-Site Programs
• Library Spotlight: Technology Listserv N'etiquette
• Navigating Change in Nonprofit Technology
• PowerUP: Bridging the Digital Divide
• Senior Initiatives Using Technology
• Service-Learning and Technology
• Team TECH: Getting Things Done–High-Tech Style
• The Web-Based Reporing System (WBRS): Efficiency and Time Savings in Reporting
• Websites for Nonprofits

Sustainability (PDF), v4, n2, Spring 2000

• A Case Study on Sustainability
• Building Sustainability into Your Program
• Building Sustainable Partnerships to Promote Disability Inclusion
• Going Beyond Your Match
• Library Spotlight: Aspects of Sustainability
• Public/Private Partnerships
• RSVP: Sustaining, Expanding, and Flourishing
• State Commissions and Private Sector Options? 501(c)3
• Sustainability: A Way of Being
• Sustainability Means More Than Money!
• University-Assisted Community Schools: Integrating K–H Service-Learning for the Long Term
• Where to Look for Partners

Recruitment and Retention (PDF), v4, n1, Winter 2000

• Elements of a Successful Recruitment Process
• Library Spotlight: Recruiting and Retaining Members
• Recruitment and Retention: A Cross-Stream Challenge
• Retaining Members through Conflict Resolution
• Searching for Gold and Finding a Family: Building Retention Rates
• Stepping Up to the Challenge: Strategies for Motivating and Sustaining Members in National Service

Recruiting and Retaining Members with Disabilities (PDF), v3, n3, Winter 1998

• Ten Basic Rules of Etiquette When You Meet a Person with a Disability
• A Life of Promise: From Desperation to Getting Things Done
• Appropriate Language: It's the Person First, and Then the Disability
• Creating a Diverse Team: Recruiting Persons with Disabilities
• Disability Demonstration Projects
• Helping Students Understand about Disabilities Experientially
• Learn and Serve Takes Off with Project SUCCESS
• Library Spotlight: Disability Issues
• RSVP: Productive Members with Limited Vision
• State Commissions: Using Strategies for Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities in National Service Programs
• VISTA: People Helping People

Effective Practices, v3, n2, Fall 1997

• Donated Computers: Evaluating Your Program's Needs
• Effective Practices for National Service and Community Partnerships
• Effective Practices for Resolving Differences of Opinion: From Lose-Lose to Win-Win with RESPECT
• Enforcing Member Discipline to Help Ensure Success for Your Program and Members
• Library Spotlight: Effective Practices
• Strategies for Effective Supervising
• Ten Ways to Cut Costs in AmeriCorps Programs and Maintain Quality

Next Steps: Life after AmeriCorps, v3, n1, Summer 1997

• Charting the Progression of AmeriCorps Members and Group Development
• Considering Post-Service Issues During a Year of AmeriCorps Service
• Esprit de Corps: Tips for Keeping Members Motivated
• Hot Tips from Former AmeriCorps Members
• Internet Insights: Using the Internet in Career Development
• Library Spotlight: National Service and Career Exploration
• Motivations for Joining AmeriCorps and Finding One's Ethic of Service
• Our Journeys of Service
• Preparing Members for Life after the Service Year
• Stages of Group Development for AmeriCorps and Other National Service Programs
• Using Community and Interview Techniques to Explore Life's Options
• Using Next Steps and Other Tools to Prepare Members for Life after AmeriCorps

Help for Tutors, v2, n4, Spring 1997

• A View from a Principal: What AmeriCorps Members Have Done for My School
• America Reads Challenge
• Book Folders: Easy, Fun, Fast
• Cross-Age Tutoring: A Win-Win Partnership
• Developing Literacy Skills Through Storytelling
• Helpful Websites on Education
• Helping Discouraged Learners
• Literacy: New Frontier for AmeriCorps
• Readings on Diversity
• Reading with Students
• Rubrics: An Assessment Tool to Share with Students
• Tips for Successful Partnerships with Teachers
• Tips on Tutoring

Cross-Stream Collaboration (PDF), v2, n3, Winter 1997

• Collaborating Workshops for Multi-Stream Training
• Combining Streams in South Carolina
• Intergenerational Cross-Stream Teams in Massachusetts
• Internet Insights
• Library Spotlight: Partnerships and Collaboration
• Regional Service-Learning in Colorado
• State Commissions: Fostering Cross-Stream Service and Training
• Streams into a River
• UC Berkeley: Innovative Service-Learning

Peer Exchange: Making Your Visit Count, v2, n1, June 1996

• Library Spotlight: Resources
• Produced by AmeriCorps Programs
• Mentoring Myths and Tips
• National Crime Prevention Council: Your Public Safety Partner
• Ohio and Maryland: Investing in the Future
• Peer Exchange Part II: Making Your Visit Count
• Training and Technical Assistance Teamwork: An Intervention Scenario
• Tutoring Questions: A Checklist for Planners Intent on Success

AmeriCorps Members Care for People with HIV/AIDS, v1, n2, Summer 1995

• Building Diversity in AmeriCorps Programs
• Key Elements of Evaluation
• Library Spotlight: Evaluation
• National Service Executive Program
• NSRC Database Searches NSRC Goes Online
• Peer Exchange: Preparing for a Peer Visit

AmeriCorps National Training and Technical Assistance, v1, n1, Spring 1995

• AmeriCorps Programs Learn Fundraising Skills
• Library Spotlight
• NSRC in Cyberspace
• United Way of America Providing Program Management Assistance
• Welcome to the Resource Connection
• What Is the National Service Resource Center?