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Welcome to the Jayne Cravens Blog, on nonprofits/ngos, communications, community engagement, volunteerism, aid & development, women's empowerment, & Jayne's random thoughts. This is the...
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Information on all aspects of volunteer management, including getting your organization ready to involve volunteers, volunteer screening, matching, record-keeping and evaluation, legal issues/risk...
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In Santa Cruz, California, a local hospital and the County Probation Department developed a culinary institute for teens on probation. As a result of this collaborative effort, and a shared vision of...
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The Solution Circle is a short, but powerful exercise that is effective in finding strategies to deal with many types of problems. Solution Circles are tools of "community capacity,"...
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At the University of Maryland, College Park, an adult health and development program employs physical and social activities and health education in an intergenerational context that has a solid...
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Best Practices for Developing a Volunteer Program was designed to provide Maryland's community-based organizations with an orientation to the fundamental components of implementing a volunteer...