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Volunteer Management

Volunteer Today - Electronic Gazette for Volunteerism
Check out Management and Training as well as Recruitment and Retention for helpful suggestions. Administrators will find Internet Sites You'll Love very helpful as a starting point to explore Internet resources for program administrators.

Energize, Inc.
Susan J. Ellis, an internationally-recognized expert in volunteerism, is president of Energize, Inc., a publishing, training and consulting firm. Her site includes numerous excerpts from her books and articles on employee/volunteer relations, all-volunteer group leadership, policy development, program assessment, record-keeping, recruitment, risk and liability, service learning, training tools, trends, volunteer centers and international policy development, and much more! There is a mix of free information and commercial information. Check out the Library for the best links.

Technology

The Power of the Internet for Learning: Final Report of Web-Based Education Commission
This report, published in December 2000 by a bi-partisan congressional committee, covers different aspects of Web-based learning (the promise) and examines the obstacles that keep this technology from becoming common practice. The obstacles include restricted access to broadband technologies, limited professional development and research. You can also find information on regulatory restrictions to e-learning, privacy and protection, and funding issues. Recommendations of the Commission can be found in the executive summary and include a call to policymakers at all levels to "support the continuous growth of educators through the use of technology."

Writing a Simple Technology Plan
Site includes a step-by-step guide to writing a simple plan plus contains a template visitors can use to get started.

Program Planning

How To Start a Volunteer Literacy Program
The Illinois Secretary of State Literacy Office/Illinois State Library have published this manual. The manual contains information on training and recruiting volunteers, determining need in your community, finance and budget, staffing and many more topics.

Grant Writing

Census 2000 Data - State of Illinois

American FactFinder
Source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data.

Donor's Forum of Chicago - Locating Foundations on the Internet Great resource for locating foundations on the Internet.

DePaul University Department of Education
Nice selection of links to Grant Writing Tips, Foundations and Nonprofit resources.

Foundation Center Online Library
This site offers links to Foundation Finder, Foundation Directory, Top U.S. Funders, Foundation Profiles, Proposal Writing Course and much more. Check the Quick Links section.

Noteworthy Newsletters

Connect - Technology and Adult Literacy
Great resource for web sites, software reviews, integrating technology into adult basic education, and much more.

Library Support of Literacy Programs

Library Support of Literacy Document
The library support examples shared in the FY2002 midterm narrative report were as heartwarming as they were useful. We have organized the examples into three areas: Exemplary Library/Literacy Partnerships; Outreach to Adult Learners and Their Families; and Literacy Program Support. Examples were assigned subjectively and may overlap.

 

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