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Find the field-tested resources you need to recruit and train AmeriCorps and VISTA members. This site assists program staff in finding and sharing proven practices for recruiting and developing...
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Guide for developing a volunteer program. This matrix from HandsOn Network helps plan out who will be responsible for which aspects of developing a volunteer program, what they will accomplish, and...
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This session, from the 2008 Financial and Grants Management Institute, identified some areas which deserve special attention due to importance or potential issues. Topics covered basics of financial...
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Best practice document on volunteer recruitment including; what goes into recruitment and retaining recruits.
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This information from the EnCorps collection of resources includes samples and successful strategies for narrowing the field of candidates and making informed choices related to screening,...
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This PDF document provides instructions to grantees who are requesting approval of alternative criminal history check search procedures, including address for request approval, review and approval...
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This PDF document is intended to acquaint individuals with the key points of the final rule, published in Federal Register on August 24, 2007, establishing national service criminal history checks.
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This PDF document contains the complete text of the Corporation’s final rule on national service criminal history checks (effective November 23, 2007).
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Corporation for National and Community Service grantees are required to conduct and document criminal history checks on AmeriCorps State, Nationaland Education Award Program participants who, on a...
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These forms from the Kentucky Commission on Community Volunteerism and Service address a variety of needs to help with day-to-day volunteer organization management tasks. Includes:
Background Check...
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The interview and selection process for applicants with disabilities has many legal considerations that can be intimidating for program staff. In most cases when an error is made, it is not because...
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Information on all aspects of volunteer management, including getting your organization ready to involve volunteers, volunteer screening, matching, record-keeping and evaluation, legal issues/risk...
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The primary goal of screening is to select the right person for your available position. Whether you're recruiting volunteers, members, or staff, you can manage your risk and increase your chances of...
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Although it is impossible to eliminate all risk, implementing practical actions and procedures that minimize risk is crucial to program sustainability. These practices include screening volunteers,...
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Ask the Expert Archive
MARCH 2007
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Q: You mention that it is important to convey "realistic expectations" to potential members as a way to increase retention. Are there other strategies that program directors and supervisors can use...
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The following resources and tools are provided by LEARNS, the Corporation's training and technical assistance provider for mentoring programs, in the areas of recruitment, screening, matching/support...
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Under the Serve America Act (SAA), all grantees must conduct National Service Criminal History checks on participants and program employees in AmeriCorps, Learn and Serve, Foster Grandparent, Senior...
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Screening volunteers is part of the larger risk management effort that helps your program exercise reasonable care (sometimes called “due diligence”) when faced with the chance that harm could result...
