Effective Practices
EFFECTIVE PRACTICES are good ideas, successful strategies, and studied findings to help your program thrive. Click here for more information about effective practices.
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Special Collections
Click on each collection title below to see relevant effective practices:
- Days of Service - and many other annual events.
- Frequent Submitters - a sampling of practices from the field.
- Notable Authors - practices submitted by distinguished specialists.
- Program Snapshots - successful service programs in action.
- T/TA Providers - practices submitted by a network of experts.
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Service Activities
- At-risk youth
- Community building
- Community technology programs
- Days of service
- Disaster preparedness and response
- Environment
- Intergenerational
- Mentoring
- Out-of-school time
- Poverty and low-income needs
- Prisoner reentry
- Public safety
- Senior services
- Service-learning
- Tribal services
- Tutoring
- Veterans Services
- Youth service
Volunteer, Member and Staff Management
- Baby boomer volunteers
- Civic engagement
- Communication skills
- Conflict resolution
- Development
- Disability inclusion
- Diversity
- Evaluation
- Education award
- Leveraging volunteers
- Orientation
- Recognition
- Recruitment
- Reflection
- Retention
- Rural
- Screening
- Service-learning
- Supervision
- Team building
- Icebreakers
- Training
- Icebreakers
Program, Financial, and Grant Management
- Boards and advisory councils
- Capacity building
- Event planning
- Financial management
- Fundraising
- Grant management
- Marketing and media
- Nonprofit management
- Partnerships
- Community partnerships
- Corporate partnerships
- Faith-based partnerships
- School-community partnerships
- Performance measurement
- Program evaluation
- Regulations, guidance, and provisions
- Research and studies
- Risk management
- Start-up
- Sustainability
- Technology