Leverage the skills and talents of community members. Engage volunteers. Partner with the communities. Mobilize volunteers to work together and help their neighbors.

Possible Action Steps:

• Match and partner outside volunteers with local residents.
• Engage low-income residents, especially families as volunteers.
• Recruit residents in episodic volunteering.

Here are some tools and ideas.

• Community Mobilization
• Recruit Volunteers From Your Community
• Creating Effective Recruitment Messages
• Developing Volunteer Positions
• Volunteer Service Descriptions
• Recognize Volunteers
• Overcome Barriers to Engagement
• Assets and Skills Inventory
• Episodic Volunteering
• Family Volunteering
• Project Ideas
• Flyer
• Volunteer Certificate
• Neighbor to Neighbor Stoop Speech

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