Share the Experience

Share the Experience is what we want you to do to increase citizen understanding of, and participation in, international development. Though Americans are generous, particularly at times of overseas crises, our nation’s share of overseas direct assistance has shrunk steadily in recent decades. If you believe your work as a volunteer was valuable, please help build a constituency that favors ACDI/VOCA’s type of interventions abroad.

ACDI/VOCA's Share the Experience guide provides resources to help you tell your story, including sample speeches and press releases, development facts, FAQs, and media and presentation tips.

Why Share Your Volunteer Experience?

Effective Presentations

Why Development Assistance?

Why Global Development Matters for the U.S.—Center for Global Development

A Primer on Foreign Aid - Working Paper 92—Center for Global Development

Public Attitudes on Foreign Assistance

ACDI/VOCA in the Post-9/11 Environment

Tough Questions and Possible Answers

Working with the Media

How to Do Talk Radio/TV

How to Do Congressional Visits

ACDI/VOCA History and Facts