Volunteer Centers Volunteer Center Resource Kit – This kit is a growing collection of informational and technical assistance documents related to Volunteer Centers and volunteer issues. These materials are intended for use only by the Volunteer Centers of the Points of Light Foundation & Volunteer Center National Network. View Resource Report on the State of Volunteer Centers in 2003: Based on the 2004 Volunteer Center Survey – This report continues a series begun in 1993 by the Points of Light Foundation to obtain and share information about Volunteer Centers and to provide an internal yardstick or benchmark for informal comparisons by individual Volunteer Centers every two years. View Resource Communications Toolkit – This is a growing collection of current material, guidelines, and templates designed to help you meet your local communications needs and leverage our national communications efforts. View Resource Extraordinary Needs, Extraordinary Response - This report documents the services provided by Volunteer Centers and the thousands of volunteers they managed in responding to the hurricanes that struck Florida in 2004. View Resource Business Business Case for Employee Volunteerism and Civic Engagement - This searchable online database will be available beginning in August. The Business Case, based on existing research, is a persuasive rationale for employee volunteer programs that serve communities and nonprofit organizations. View Resource Measuring Employee Volunteer Programs: The Human Resources Model - This report documents the findings from a joint research project conducted by the Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College and the Points of Light Foundation, which was undertaken to examine the value-added benefits of employee volunteering. View Resource Trainings Training Seminars – Provide useful information and are designed to meet the needs of numerous volunteer programs, including General Volunteer Management, Workplace Volunteering, Youth & Family, Volunteer Center Management Initiatives, and International Programs. View Resource Volunteer Management To Lead is to Serve: How to Attract Volunteers & Keep Them – This revised edition has helped organizations increase their volunteers by as much as 500% when they use the “To Lead is to Serve” method. View Resource Volunteer Manager's Planning Calendar – Get your 2005 Volunteer Manager's Planning Calendar for up to 50%-75% off the original price! The calendar includes timely reminders, tips to direct you to resources, helps you plan for days of service, plus other great information. View Resource Youth The Complete Guide to Service Learning - Proven, Practical Ways to Engage Students in Civic Responsibility, Academic Curriculum, and Social Action – This guide by Cathryn Berger Kaye, a leader, speaker, and former classroom teacher, presents service learning — it's importance, steps, essential elements, and challenges — within a curricular context. The guide can help teachers and youth workers engage young hearts and minds in reaching out and giving back. View Resource Service-Learning Impacting Citizenship (SLIC) Curriculum – This curriculum was designed to help community-based organizations connect the service experiences of young people to becoming more civically engaged. The curriculum should help youth move from service to other strategies that maximize the impact of their efforts of the issues they care about. View Resource General Connecting Rural Communities: Volunteering and Neighboring – The latest publication from the Points of Light Foundation's Family Strengthening Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. Thi s monograph on volunteering in rural America, documents some of the effective strategies and solutions to address local needs and connect families to critical resources. View Resource Strengthening Rural America – This publication contains effective practices from across the country that illustrates the resilience and strength of rural America and the diversity of solutions to be found. Theses practices are presented in a structure that outlines the issues each community faced, how they used partnerships to aid neighbors, and some of the volunteer solutions local residents helped implement. View Resource Powerful Volunteer Connections: A Toolkit for Maximizing Your Organization's Volunteer Resources – This toolkit can help you to manage volunteers to yield maximum, cost-effective, mission-driven results. It will serve as a practical tool for stimulating change in how your organization thinks and works, thus ensuring highly effective volunteer involvement that truly makes a difference. View Resource

"Points of Light: A Celebration of the American Giving Spirit" is a book that celebrates America's "culture of caring" with inspiring stories of 16 individuals — portraits of goodness that include many winners of the Daily Points of Light Award. The book will be available in 2006. More details to follow in the coming months.