Senior Corps Directors Meeting

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Senior Corps Directors Meeting

• November 6, 2008
• Welcome

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WV State ConferencePre-Conference Planning
Committee

• Scheduling planning calls with colleagues from VA
  and KY
• To be determined/coming soon
• WV Committee members Rod Poling
• Angie Kocher
• Kim Good

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MLK Day Jan. 19, 2008CNCS and State Commission
Website for collaboration and reporting

• The Martin Luther King Day Toolkit is available
  at http//www.mlkday.gov/resources/toolkit/mlkday
  _toolkit.pdf. This tool is a step by step guide
  to planning the Martin Luther King Day of
  Service.  Hard copies of this publication may be
  acquired at www.nationalservicepubs.org.
• The MLK Day Fundraising Toolkit is available at 
  http//www.mlkday.gov/resources/funders/mlkday_fun
  ders.pdf.  This tool is designed to assist users
  in building financial and in-kind support for the
  Day of Service.
• The "Sizzle Reel"
• A video of highlights from MLK Day 2008.   Its
  a great resource for getting others excited about
  what can be done.  The video of MLK Day 2008
  activities are located at  http//www.mlkday.gov/
  about/newsroom/video.asp.  Hard copies of the
  sizzle reel are also available at
  http//www.nationalservicepubs.org

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MLK Day Jan. 19, 2008CNCS and State Commission
Website for collaboration and reporting

• The e-Organizer
• This interactive tool developed by Campaign
  Consultation, Inc. -- our TTA Provider for MLK
  Day shows how to maximize free and inexpensive
  online tools and resources to mobilize people
  around issues and within organizations.  It is
  located at http//www.campaignconsultation.com/GI
  ZMOs/eorganizer/
• The Business World Travel Kit
• This is an interactive tool for identifying the
  right types of businesses to partner with and
  also demystifies the language of business so that
  a non-profit can more effectively approach
  businesses for partnerships.  It is located at
• http//www.campaignconsultation.com/GISMOs/busine
  ssworldtravelkit/

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PPVA Reminder

• PPVA opened on October 17th
• The deadline for Senior Corps grantees to
  complete their forms and submit in eGrants is
  November 30, 2008
• Help Text document for further reference
  available at http//www.seniorcorps.gov/for_organ
  izations/manage/index.asp

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VolunteerWV.org Directory Update

• Requests for updates for the WV National Service
  programs Directory on the
• http//www.VolunteerWV.org website will be
  coming via e-mail in the next few weeks.

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2009 Senior Corps Guidance

• The final Senior Corps FY 2009 Field Guidance and
  Field Guidance Reference, dated October 28,
  2008, have been posted on the Senior Corps
  website at http//www.seniorcorps.gov/for_organiz
  ations/manage/index.asp

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Strategic Initiatives 1 Harnessing Baby Boomers
Experience and Independent Living Resources

• VolunteerMatch VolunteerMatch provides the
  search engine for volunteers age 55-plus at the
  Get Involved! campaign website. This search tool
  provides volunteers instant access to specific
  Senior Corps volunteer opportunities by enabling
  the user to search for Foster Grandparent, RSVP
  and/or Senior Companion opportunities only. The
  search engine can be accessed at
  www.getinvolved.gov, www.volunteer.gov, or
  www.volunteermatch.org.

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Strategic Initiatives 1 Harnessing Baby Boomers
Experience and Independent Living Resources
cont.

• Senior Corps projects have Community Leader
  Memberships in VolunteerMatch providing
  additional recruitment tools and options to
  maximize the impact of their volunteer postings.
  In addition, Community Leader postings
  automatically show up first on any search results
  list, further highlighting the availability of
  the volunteer opportunity. All Senior Corps
  projects have accounts with VolunteerMatch.

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Strategic Initiatives 1 Harnessing Baby Boomers
Experience and Independent Living Resources
cont.

• Meanwhile, a new guidebook from VolunteerMatch,
  Boomer Volunteer Engagement Collaborate Today,
  Thrive Tomorrow, provides a step-by-step
  practical guide for engaging Boomers as
  volunteers who can help build organizational
  capacity. This book, developed for nonprofits and
  published in 2008, contains downloadable PDF
  worksheets, including organizational assessments,
  work plans, and progress report templates. These
  documents can be accessed at no charge at
• http//www.volunteermatch.org/nonprovits/boomerboo
  k

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Strategic Initiatives 1 Harnessing Baby Boomers
Experience and Independent Living Resources
cont.

• The Resource Centers main page for resources
  related to the boomer initiative is
  http//www.nationalserviceresources.org/initiative
  -boomers. Some of particular interest are
  discussed below.
• Temple Universitys Center for Intergenerational
  Learning. To assist Senior Corps grantees in
  attracting the Baby Boomer population, the
  Corporations T/TA provider for mobilizing baby
  boomers in service has developed web-based and
  print materials and training on topics such as
  outreach to boomers developing attractive
  placements assessing individual interests and
  making successful matches. A series of webinars
  on topics from marketing and recruiting to
  creating attractive volunteer opportunities will
  be continued in 2009. In 2008 Temple launched a
  new on-line course called Capturing Experience
  How People 50 Can Help Your Organization
  designed to help organizations learn how to make
  more effective use of baby boomers.

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Strategic Initiatives 1 Harnessing Baby Boomers
Experience and Independent Living Resources
cont.

• New Resources for Independent Living for Seniors.
  One new and one revised resource will be
  available in 2009 in support of independent
  living services that fall under the boomer
  initiative.
• http//nationalserviceresources.org/indep-living-t
  raining-curriculum

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Strategic Initiatives 1 Harnessing Baby Boomers
Experience and Independent Living Resources
cont.

• Studies. Keeping Baby Boomers Volunteering A
  Research Brief on Volunteer Retention and
  Turnover focuses on factors related to retaining
  Boomer volunteers from one year to the next,
  since nearly one-third of boomers choose not to
  continue volunteering for a second year.
  VolunteerMatchs Great Expectations Boomers and
  the Future of Volunteering, is a look at the
  first wave of boomers who are just now entering
  their 60's and their views on volunteering

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Other discussion

• State Association web site update
• (Angie)
• Data gathering and reporting update (Snowshoe
  meeting)
• Assessing projects
• Next meeting December 2 (200-330)