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    • Website Upgrade: National Service Effective Practices Collection

    Posted by on September 22, 2006

    The Resource Center’s Effective Practices Collection
    http://www.nationalservice.gov/resources/

    In this issue:

    * Newest Effective Practices
    * Special Collection: T/TA Providers
    * The Upgrade

    NEWEST EFFECTIVE PRACTICES

    Increasing participation in service-learning fairs by choosing an appropriate name for an event (National Service-Learning Clearinghouse)
    http://snipurl.com/EPC_1112

    Building the capacity of community organizations: possible outcomes (Project STAR)
    http://snipurl.com/EPC_1100

    Assisting underperforming students with after-school service-learning (Petaluma City Schools: California)
    http://snipurl.com/EPC_1093

    Adopting strategies for making national and community service programs disability friendly (National Service Inclusion Project)
    http://snipurl.com/EPC_1095

    Providing older volunteers with adaptive products to enable them to continue to serve (National Service Inclusion Project)
    http://snipurl.com/EPC_1094

    TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROVIDERS

    Training and Technical Assistance (T/TA) Providers are organizations selected by the Corporation for National and Community Service to support grantee programs with professional resources and training. This page highlights effective practices from T/TA providers, who have expertise in topics such as disability inclusion, recruitment and development, performance measurement, and engaging baby boomers.

    http://nationalserviceresources.org/epicenter/topics/

    EFFECTIVE PRACTICES COLLECTION 2.0: The Upgrade!

    The Effective Practices Collection has undergone an extensive technology upgrade that will make searching, finding, and reading effective practices faster, easier, and quite simply — BETTER! We hope you enjoy the many new features we have implemented:

    * faster and more relevant search results
    * simplified display layout
    * preview effective practice abstracts from the results page
    * email effective practices to friends
    * attach files to effective practice submissions

    We look forward to bringing you further improvements in the near future.

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