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.