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Current and past issues of the Resource Connection, our periodic newsletter, are available below. Click on a newsletter title to view its Table of Contents. Or, download a detailed index listing all articles from past issues: Index of Articles.

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
Recruitment, n2, September 1996
Peer Exchange: Making Your Visit Count, n1, June 1996

Volume 1
Supporting Early Childhood AmeriCorps Programs, n4, March 1996
NASCC Circuit Riders, n3, December 1995
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 (the Program Start-Up Blueprint is also available in Rich Text Format (RTF ) so that you may 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 (HTML | 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 (HTML | 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 (HTML | 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 (HTML), 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 (HTML), 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 (HTML), 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 (HTML | 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

Recruitment (HTML), v2, n2, September 1996: Diversity Success in Recruiting and Retention; Getting Your Program Off to a Strong Start; Library Spotlight: Recruiting and Retaining; Recruiting People with Disabilities; Recruitment and Retention: What? How? Who?; Servicespeak: Reflections of an AmeriCorps Leader; Tips from the Corporation Recruitment Unit

Peer Exchange: Making Your Visit Count (HTML), 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

Supporting Early Childhood AmeriCorps Programs (HTML), v1, n4,
March 1996: AMSA's Preventive Health Technical Assistance Program; Library Spotlight: Team Building and Conflict Resolution; NSRC AmeriCorps Listserv Taking Off; Operation Fresh Start: Getting Things Done; Supporting Early Childhood AmeriCorps Programs

NASCC Circuit Riders (HTML), v1, n3, December 1995: NSRC Lending Library: Spotlight on Videos; NSRC Listserv Up and Running; NSRC Needs Assessment Survey Results; Principles of Continuous Improvement; The Home Team: Your Housing Experts

AmeriCorps Members Care for People with HIV/AIDS (HTML), 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 (HTML),
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?

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