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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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This page from the EnCorps collection offers a variety of resources for building successful teams.
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This information from the EnCorps collection of resources addresses the use of games to focus members on the benefits of working together.
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Statewide service events can be a milestone in an AmeriCorps member’s service term — connecting a member to the larger AmeriCorps community and allowing him or her to see the power of...
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During a service term, members typically show characteristic behaviors that reflect the stresses associated with national and community service. The role of the director is to support them, optimally...
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InterCorps Councils connect and coordinate programs statewide, share resources, promote leadership skills and an ethic of service, and provide a forum for service members to voice collective opinions...
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Although most members are usually conscientious, truancy and lateness can cause a loss of morale for an entire program. This effective practice offers strategies for dealing with absenteeism and...
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Motivating members to write "great stories" of service so that they are dynamic and compelling isn't always easy, but always well worth the effort. Great stories can be used in reports and in...
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While it is important to have members formulate goals at the outset of their service term, some may be intimidated by a formal exercise that prompts them to do so. The group approach outlined in this...
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Watching movies with themes of service, leadership and related subjects with corps members or volunteers can encourage learning, reflection and meaningful discussion. Setting some basic ground rules...
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Although a mission statement is included in the AmeriCorps new members handbook, at the beginning of each program year new members with the City of Lakes AmeriCorps program in Minneapolis, Minnesota...
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Creating a member development plan has many positive applications for both the service agency and its volunteers, including inspiring and motivating members, increasing skill levels, and creating an...
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When AmeriCorps members and volunteers serve at multiple sites, it may not be realistic for program directors to work closely with all members and site supervisors to ensure everyone is fulfilling...
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Volunteer and community service programs need clear, well-composed photographs for a variety of publications and public relations purposes. Guidelines for taking photographs, developed for the...
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Everyday Heroes is a one-hour film that documents the AmeriCorps experience. Local AmeriCorps programs, commissions, and other service-related organizations can utilize a community broadcast of the...
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Sometimes the constraints of a traditional one-on-one interview will not address whether a potential volunteer will get along well with other staff members or other participants/volunteers....
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Retaining effective and efficient staff for national service providers and other service organizations can sometimes be difficult, particularly if you have not personally recruited each staff member...
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When the AmeriCorps program director of Community College of Rhode Island joined the supervisory board of the project site his members served at, the result was a better understanding of the site's...
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Tutors can feel isolated if they have no one to turn to at their volunteer site to solve problems or help generate ideas. The America Reads program at the University of Michigan developed a system of...
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When using small groups, be sure to consider group composition. Purposeful grouping can be powerful as a tool to achieve desired outcomes from training sessions. This effective practice comes from...
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Small groups provide a valuable training tool that can simultaneously transmit information, teach project-specific as well as general skills, and reinforce the "sense of team" among members. Mosaica'...
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Multi-site management is a reality for many national service programs. When members serve at multiple sites, program directors need to work closely with members and site supervisors to ensure...
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This National Service Fellows report details an effective and cost-efficient program model and leadership training curriculum called the "Leader Corps" to train national service leaders in leadership...
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Untapped potential for collaboration exists among the three major service initiatives of the Corporation for National and Community Service — AmeriCorps, Senior Corps, and Learn and Serve...
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Low-performing readers can benefit from regular one-on-one instruction with a volunteer tutor. However, many programs face difficulties recruiting volunteers who are willing to commit to multiple...
