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The 2012 National Conference on Volunteering and Service will be June 18 - 20, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois!
A program of Points of Light Institute, this annual event provides attendees with an...
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This Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is designed to clarify the roles and responsibilities of the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Chittenden County and a Volunteer Station or School.
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Issue Area: Education
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Seniors for Schools: Effective Practices Guidebook is a compilation of information, tools, and materials used by Seniors for Schools project directors as they launched a new child literacy initiative...
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More than fifteen years ago, a high school in a small, coastal Oregon town began a senior project that fostered civic engagement in its students. Set within the context of a community-wide approach...
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A small, coastal Oregon town that has experienced many transitions in employment and lifestyle has come together around community-wide service-learning projects that benefit its citizens. Their...
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With support from Learn and Serve America, RSVP of Northern Arizona, headquartered at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, recruits baby boomers and assigns them to tutoring projects in local K-...
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In response to the Seniors Assisting Youth Engaged in Service (SaYES) initiative, Shelby Public Schools Service-Learning Program launched a campaign to recruit older adult volunteers and partner them...
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The Wisconsin Intergenerational Network (WIN), a program of the Dane County RSVP, accepted the challenge of generating interest in the Corporation for National and Community Service’s SaYES...
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North Dakota State University, sponsor of six regional RSVP programs in the state, has formed an innovative partnership with the North Dakota Cooperative Extension Service agents to train RSVP...
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During summer break Foster Grandparents from the Mexia State School Foster Grandparent Program partnered with local city libraries to provide reading programs for children with special reading needs...
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The RSVP program director of Cumberland County, North Carolina, was looking to find a way to encourage visits to residents in local nursing homes, and thought that pairing students with elderly...
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Literacy development is intensely social, and senior tutoring meets this important need, as well as others, for students who are learning to read. This 2000 National Service Fellows study by Amy...
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An intergenerational pen pal buddy program is a great way for students to increase their literacy skills and build lasting friendships. In Riley County, Kansas, 15 RSVP volunteers were ready to team...
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For Earth Day 2001, RSVP of the Capital Region of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, partnered with several governmental and nonprofit agencies to hold a "Water Snapshot" at a nature center to correspond with...
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Volunteers who tutor reading need training in selecting and using literature that promotes diversity, and students need to read literature with diversity themes to broaden their awareness and...
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Elementary students do not always get a chance to learn about local history because it is often overlooked in textbooks. RSVP of Meigs County, Ohio, developed a program which provides students with...
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Many young people have stereotypes about seniors that affect how they relate to them. Seniors may have a wealth of information and wisdom for young people to draw on, but stereotypes often get in the...
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RSVP of Scioto County, Ohio compiled the WWII memories of seniors in their community and published them in a book titled, Memoirs of WWII - A Time to Remember. Once the book was published, the senior...
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Buy-in from teachers is often crucial in making school partnerships work. Stacy Hanf, a teacher at Sacramento Elementary School in Portland, Oregon, shared the effective practices that worked at her...
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Volunteers with Northwest Iowa RSVP and students at Spencer Middle School were linked through an intergenerational pen pal project that culminated with each student writing a life story of her/his...
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This effective practice is based on the article, "Building Blocks of a Strong Literacy Project: Kansas City Seniors for Schools" in the August 1998 issue of The Tutor which presents a case study of...
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Chapter five, from Seniors for Schools Effective Practices Guidebook, seeks to help a literacy program select an effective tutoring approach. Questions in seven key program areas are provided. By...
