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Supporting Families Following a Disaster 
Description: The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide a better understanding of a disaster and the impact it may have on families. May be applicable for Gulf Oil Spill response or response to other catastrophic events such as flood, hurricane, earth quake, drought, wild fire, etc.
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Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that introduces citizen development. It includes links to a literature review, indicators and measures, an evaluation example, an essay on citizen participation, and sources and annotations.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Non-Profit Organizational Assessment Tool: Volunteer Involvement
Author: Lewis, Andrew (6 more by this author)
Description: A part of a series of evaluation questions to assess a non-profit's organizational capacity. This piece addresses volunteer involvement.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Evaluating the Extension Volunteer Teacher
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource discusses the benefits of evaluating volunteer teacher, and it provides information about guidelines for evaluations, types of evaluations, and sample instruments.
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Volunteer and Non-Medical Personnel Involvement in a Community-Based Clinic
Author: Powell, Pamela; Marilyn Smith, Area Specialist
Description: Recently, the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) contracted with the Environmental Protection Agency to recruit participants for a study on the long-term health effects of chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water. The resulting clinic, to collect data from Churchill County residents, was the largest of its kind ever conducted in the United States. The clinic was designed for targeted residents who were 45-years old or older and had lived in Churchill County for 20 years or more. A follow-up study conducted by UNCE may be of interest to others who conduct targeted clinic and who wish to increase the participation by the targeted group. The use of volunteer and non-medical personnel in the clinic may be of particular interest to health care professionals and participatory organizations.
– General Information –
Author: Stevens, Debbie (1 more by this author)
Description: This guide for 4-H Clubs and members suggests ways youth can participate as an active
asset in their communities to promote emergency and disaster planning. It includes sample activities, links to resources, and action steps for serving as a catalyst in jump-starting preparedness planning in business, community and families. The guide can be used by traditional 4-H clubs, specialty clubs, school enrichment or 4-H Afterschool programs.
Administering Contemporary Volunteer Programs: Emerging Strategies for Success
Author: Pleskac, Sue; Ryan Schmiesing, National 4-H Headquarters, CSREES, USDA; Sheri Seibold, University of Illinois
Description: This CYFAR 2009 presentation discusses development of volunteer programs using the 4-H model. Included are tools and strategies for creating organized and effective volunteer development programs.
Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity: What Progress Looks Like
Description: This report, based on visits to nine organizations, examines how community philanthropy can deepen social justice work, especially in the American South.
Determining Volunteer Motivations - A Key to Success
Author: Riley, Mary
Description: A paper that highlights three motivational perspectives and provides tips on how to determine motivations and how this information applies to a volunteer manager’s efforts.
Employment & Volunteer Opportunities for Seniors
Author: Lane, Rosalie
Description: A factsheet that provides an overview of the changing role of seniors in the workplace.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Description: Webpage for Hands On Network, which leads a national civic movement bringing people together to tackle tough community problems through service. This is a growing Network of local nonprofit organizations that act as civic action centers—helping people “be the change” in their communities through effective volunteer action. The Hands On approach inspires volunteers, creates leaders, and changes lives.
Independent Sector: Working Better Together
Description: Published by the Three Sector Initiative, seven leading organizations representing business, government and nonprofits, the report details the ways the sectors have used collaboration to form partnerships with each other to address complex problems that no one sector can handle on its own.
Author: Braddy, Vicki
Description: A fact sheet that discusses networking.
Description: A website for the Points of Light Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to engage people in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems.
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Episodic Volunteers: Who are They and What Do I Do With Them?
Author: Krogel, Ashley; Nate Arnett (Ohio State University Extension); Kim Catchpole (Ohio State University Extension)
Description: From a CYFAR 2009 workshop, this presentation discusses a shift occurring in they types of volunteers that program leaders are able to attract. Also included is a guide developed by Adventure Central, an education center for youth ages 5 -18 located in Dayton, Ohio in partnership with Five Rivers MetroParks, Ohio State University Extension and Ohio 4-H. This guide was designed to provide a model for creating successful episodic volunteer experiences.
LEARNING TO GIVE: Teaching the Importance of Voluntary Action
Description: Learning to Give seeks to perpetuate a civil society by educating children about the independent sector (knowledge), developing behavior and philanthropic experience (skills), and, stimulating private voluntary citizen action for the common good (behavior). This site contains lesson plans and teaching materials.
Author: Braddy, Vicki
Description: A fact sheet that discusses networking.
Description: A website for the Points of Light Foundation. The Foundation’s mission is to engage people in volunteer community service to help solve serious social problems.
Volunteer and Non-Medical Personnel Involvement in a Community-Based Clinic
Author: Powell, Pamela; Marilyn Smith, Area Specialist
Description: Recently, the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) contracted with the Environmental Protection Agency to recruit participants for a study on the long-term health effects of chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water. The resulting clinic, to collect data from Churchill County residents, was the largest of its kind ever conducted in the United States. The clinic was designed for targeted residents who were 45-years old or older and had lived in Churchill County for 20 years or more. A follow-up study conducted by UNCE may be of interest to others who conduct targeted clinic and who wish to increase the participation by the targeted group. The use of volunteer and non-medical personnel in the clinic may be of particular interest to health care professionals and participatory organizations.
– Programming Resource –
Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity: What Progress Looks Like
Description: This report, based on visits to nine organizations, examines how community philanthropy can deepen social justice work, especially in the American South.
Determining Volunteer Motivations - A Key to Success
Author: Riley, Mary
Description: A paper that highlights three motivational perspectives and provides tips on how to determine motivations and how this information applies to a volunteer manager’s efforts.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resources that introduces citizen development. It includes links to a literature review, indicators and measures, an evaluation example, an essay on citizen participation, and sources and annotations.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Literature Review
Author: Shannon, Lisa (4 more by this author); Jakes, Susan S.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides a literature review of citizen development. The review includes discussions of human capital, community assets, empowerment, citizen participation, and community development. It also includes models of citizen development and links to other resources about citizen development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Citizen Development: Sources and Annotations
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that includes sources and annotations for citizen development.
Evaluation Report: Engaging Persons with Disabilities
Description: A research report that describes the outcomes and lessons learned of a year-long initiative, funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, to engage more people with disabilities in volunteer service.
Grow Your Impact with Community Gardens
Author: Jakes, Susan (22 more by this author); Keith Baldwin, Lucy Bradley
Description: Using Extension's wide content expertise, community gardens create ideal educational opportunities for practically all of the content areas of Extension: Nutrition, physical activity, youth development, entrepreneurism, horticulture, family resource management, community development, agriculture education, senior friendly communities, etc. A garden can be a powerful community hub for Extension education activities. Since community garden's will be at various stages of development, presentation and materials will be applicable for many stages, from planning, to partnership formation, to land and funding acquisition, to full fledge gardens, to redevelopment after land or leadership loss. Participants will increase their knowledge of gardening's benefit to children, youth, families and communities; increase their knowledge of a community garden's ability to integrate expertise of Extension; and gain access to online community gardening technical assistance materials
Author: Abi-Nader, Janette; Kristen Markley; Kendall Dunnigan
Description: This curriculum, framed around the topic of community gardens, presents basic community development how-to information such as community organizing, asset assessment, building partnerships, and facilitating meetings.
LEARNING TO GIVE: Teaching the Importance of Voluntary Action
Description: Learning to Give seeks to perpetuate a civil society by educating children about the independent sector (knowledge), developing behavior and philanthropic experience (skills), and, stimulating private voluntary citizen action for the common good (behavior). This site contains lesson plans and teaching materials.
Author: Braddy, Vicki
Description: A fact sheet that discusses networking.
Recruiting and Supporting Latino Volunteers
Description: Provides background and suggestions for increasing Latino community service and volunteering.
Recruitment Tips for a Mentoring Program
Description: A factsheet that discusses how to recruit volunteers for a mentoring program.
Resource Center: Tools and training for volunteer and service programs
Description: This website contains resources for training volunteers and directing services programs in the community. It includes information on mentoring, tutoring, disaster preparedness and response, days of service, at-risk youth, etc.
Materials for training volunteers is available on many topics.
Share Yourself - Coaching to Win
Author: Smith, Claudette (1 more by this author)
Description: A project designed to train community volunteers to develop a successful mentoring/coaching relationship with welfare to work participants. A curriculum titled "Coaching to Win" was produced as a facilitator guide for training along with two support pieces "Coaches Playbook" provided to all volunteers trained and"Winners Game Plan for the welfare to work participants in the program.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Evaluating the Extension Volunteer Teacher
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource discusses the benefits of evaluating volunteer teacher, and it provides information about guidelines for evaluations, types of evaluations, and sample instruments.
- More about "The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Evaluating the Extension Volunteer Teacher"
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Preparing the Extension Volunteer to Teach
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource provides information for preparing an Extension volunteer to teach. It includes discussions about the following: the learning environment, how to overcome barriers to learning, and important elements of teaching.
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The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Providing Recognition
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource discusses issues related to providing recognition to volunteers. Specifically, it addresses the importance of providing recognition, types of recognition, and ways to provide recognition.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Recruiting Volunteers for Teaching
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers guidelines on recruiting volunteer extension teachers. Included are questions to consider when reviewing applicants, guidelines for reviewing applicants, and the steps of the application process.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Recruiting Volunteers for Teaching
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers guidelines on recruiting volunteer extension teachers. Included are questions to consider when reviewing applicants, guidelines for reviewing applicants, and the steps of the application process.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer Teacher: Volunteers and Extension
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: A brief overview of a national study, Implications of Volunteerism for Extension, conducted by the University of Wisconsin. It also pvovides an introduction to the volunteer teacher series, which is designed for use by Extension professionals who work with volunteers.
The Cooperative Extension Volunteer: Legal Aspects Relating to Volunteers in Florida
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: This resource offers information about laws and statutues pertaining to volunteers. Most of the information is specific to Florida.
The Costs and Benefits of Volunteers
Author: Kentner, Neil; Emelee Reifschneider; Connie Lange; Ada Takacs
Description: A cost-benefit analysis designed to provide a practical understanding of program costs and a quantifiable value of program outcomes associated with volunteers. It includes information about the costs and benefits for programs and for volunteers.
Volunteers and Community Economic Development
Author: Hustedde, Ronald; Andrea Freeman
Description: A fact sheet that discusses job creation strategies, how to develop a community plan of action, and issues concerning volunteers.
Volunteers and Community Economic Development
Author: Woods, Mike; Andrea Freeman
Description: A fact sheet that discusses job creation strategies, how to develop a community plan of action, and issues concerning volunteers.
– Research –
Community Philanthropy and Racial Equity: What Progress Looks Like
Description: This report, based on visits to nine organizations, examines how community philanthropy can deepen social justice work, especially in the American South.
Evaluation Report: Engaging Persons with Disabilities
Description: A research report that describes the outcomes and lessons learned of a year-long initiative, funded by the Corporation for National and Community Service, to engage more people with disabilities in volunteer service.
Independent Sector: Working Better Together
Description: Published by the Three Sector Initiative, seven leading organizations representing business, government and nonprofits, the report details the ways the sectors have used collaboration to form partnerships with each other to address complex problems that no one sector can handle on its own.
The Costs and Benefits of Volunteers
Author: Kentner, Neil; Emelee Reifschneider; Connie Lange; Ada Takacs
Description: A cost-benefit analysis designed to provide a practical understanding of program costs and a quantifiable value of program outcomes associated with volunteers. It includes information about the costs and benefits for programs and for volunteers.
Volunteer and Non-Medical Personnel Involvement in a Community-Based Clinic
Author: Powell, Pamela; Marilyn Smith, Area Specialist
Description: Recently, the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension (UNCE) contracted with the Environmental Protection Agency to recruit participants for a study on the long-term health effects of chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water. The resulting clinic, to collect data from Churchill County residents, was the largest of its kind ever conducted in the United States. The clinic was designed for targeted residents who were 45-years old or older and had lived in Churchill County for 20 years or more. A follow-up study conducted by UNCE may be of interest to others who conduct targeted clinic and who wish to increase the participation by the targeted group. The use of volunteer and non-medical personnel in the clinic may be of particular interest to health care professionals and participatory organizations.