Tools & Resources
Volunteer Guides
A volunteer guide can serve as an important point of reference and a convenient orientation tool for those in community service and volunteering. Creating a handbook for volunteers allows volunteers to be better informed and consequently, more effective service members.
Useful guides from the Points of Light Web site:
A Matter of Survival: Volunteering in, by, and with Low-Income Communities
Book focuses on a leader's efforts to mobilize community members, engage residents in volunteering, plan and manage projects, and develop other leaders.
Building Good Relations with People of Different Faiths
Help programs mobilize members of communities of faith as community volunteers.
Creating Community-Wide Group Projects
A step-by-step guide to planning, marketing and implementing a group project. Includes timelines, ideas for engaging partners, strategies on how to work with the media, and planning guides.
Degree Programs Focused on Service
This packet is a compilation of some of the degrees related to service available at colleges and universities around the U.S.
National Family Volunteer Day Guidebook
A detailed guidebook to developing, implementing and participating in a successful National Family Volunteer Day.