Effective Practices: Frequent Submitters
Thanks to the following individuals and programs for sharing what works for them in their communities:
- Implementing service-learning through learning circles
- Using a database-driven website to connect students with community volunteer opportunities
- Giving winning presentations using PowerPoint slides
- Using storytelling to make a compelling presentation
- Giving effective presentations to recruit Foster Grandparents
- Identifying a target market and using direct mail postcards and fliers to recruit Foster Grandparents
- Assessing the information needs of health care providers in rural areas
- Working with tribal populations to increase access to health information
- Managing multiple sites and developing esprit de corps
- Partnering with faith-based and community-based organizations
- Promoting good evaluation techniques by developing a technical assistance calendar
- Providing citizenship training to AmeriCorps members
- Creating a culture of civic responsibility on a college campus
- Implementing service-learning in community colleges
- Integrating civic responsibility into community college curricula
- Helping students feel comfortable about being tutored or mentored
- Increasing vocabulary with a kinesthetic activity
- Introducing nouns to students
- Preventing youth from becoming victims of cyberbullying
- Teaching students to recognize uppercase and lowercase letters
- Using a character tree to keep track of a story
- Using a scheduling/goals worksheet to organize a tutoring session with multiple students
- Using charades to help students learn the difference between verbs and nouns
- Diversifying your portfolio with national and state commission funding
- Managing multiple sites and developing esprit de corps
- Creating a successful online mentoring program
- Screening online volunteers
- Using Instant Messaging to promote communication with volunteers
- Providing guidelines for inexperienced volunteers
- Integrating community service with higher education student government programming
- Creating a kid-friendly student handbook
- Dispelling age stereotypes with a senior-senior prom
- Engaging kindergartners in making a hospital waiting room child friendly
- Honoring ordinary heroes through a community service project
- Providing emotional support for volunteers in disaster situations
- Understanding the role of staff during disaster deployment and recovery
- Holding a volunteer fair to recruit new RSVP volunteers
- Recruiting senior volunteers
- Sharing holiday traditions and diversity at an in-service training
- Awarding training scholarships to national and community service programs
- Developing a training calendar and newsletter
- Establishing a responsible mentoring program
- Incorporating effective practices for successful e-mentoring
- Making the most of mentoring opportunities
- Connecting training activities with the term of service
- Implementing and moderating a professional panel or forum
- Sharing age sensitivity training with students
- Providing telephone reassurance for senior community members
- Using RSVP volunteers in juvenile detention centers
- Partnering with other service organizations
- Understanding twenty factors influencing successful collaborations
- Calculating the attrition rate of volunteers
- Engaging staff in reducing the volunteer attrition rate
- Assessing training needs quickly
- Demonstrating the goals of AmeriCorps service
- Facilitating meetings effectively
- Sharing a model for community technology center (CTC) AmeriCorps*VISTA project
- Supporting community technology center (CTC) AmeriCorps*VISTA members
- Developing financial literacy curricula
- Incorporating key elements of effective and engaging financial literacy training
- Instituting a new service day by combining university and community resources
- Recruiting and training parent volunteers as literacy tutors
- Using an aerospace club to strengthen aviation education for youth
VISTAs with Michigan Campus Compact
- Administering surveys to K-5 children for post-project evaluation
- Collaborating between academic and student affairs offices on a college campus
- Collaborating between service-learning and institutional research offices on a college campus
- Delivering successful presentations: public speaking, PowerPoint, and flip chart
- Developing partnerships as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member
- Establishing a service-learning office on a college campus
- Implementing a community-based work fair on a college campus
- Instituting a day of service with new student orientation
- Involving college students and community members in a social awareness event
- Organizing a community service fair on a college campus
- Placing federal work-study students in the community
- Recognizing student volunteers with leadership awards
- Recruiting mentors on a college campus for a child-focused program
- Starting an e-mentoring program on a college campus
- Understanding the concept of branding for AmeriCorps*VISTA members
