Resource Connection Overview

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

Volume 5

Volume 4

Volume 3

Volume 2

Volume 1

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?