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eVOLve: technical assistance for mobilizing volunteers (July 2012)

  Welcome to Points of Light's eVOLve: technical assistance for mobilizing volunteers. In this electronic technical assistance (eTA) brief, you will find tips and tools to help you inspire, equip, and mobilize volunteers in your community.  
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eVOLVE: technical assistance for mobilizing volunteers (June 2012)

Welcome to Points of Light's eVOLve: technical assistance for mobilizing volunteers. In this electronic technical assistance (eTA) brief, you will find tips and tools to help you inspire, equip, and mobilize volunteers in your community.
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Learn the Best Practices for Using Social Media

  Use this tool to maximize efficient use of social media at your organization.
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The Points of Light Movement - The President's Report to the Nation (entire report)

This report has been re-released for the Presidential Forum on Service held by President Barack Obama and hosted by Former President George H.W. Bush and The Points of Light Institute at Texas A&M University, October 16, 2009. President Obama’s address on service at the site of the...
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Doing More With Less - Nonprofit Panel

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Benefits of Family Volunteering Impact Study Executive Summary

An Exploratory Study by Indiana University at Purdue, of the Impact of Family Volunteering on Families.
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Building Good Relations with People of Different Faiths

Help programs mobilize members of communities of faith as community volunteers.
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Connecting Rural Communities: Volunteering and Neighboring

We are pleased to present Connecting Rural Communities: Volunteering and Neighboring, the latest publication from the Points of Light Foundation's Family Strengthening Neighborhood Transformation Initiative. This monograph on volunteering in rural America, documents some of the effective...
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Reinventing Aging: The Civic Engagement of the Baby Boomers

Prepared by the Harvard School of Public Health and MetLife Foundation in collaboration with leading national organizations such as the Points of Light Foundation, the Report looks at the opportunities and challenges the boomers face in creating a social legacy of profound importance.
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Daily Points of Light for the Nation - 685 through 1020

President Bush recognized the first Daily Point of Light for the Nation on November 22, 1989, in Memphis, Tennessee. He has continued this recognition throughout his Presidency, naming the final Daily Point of Light - number 1,020 - on January 20, 1993. Although there is no precedent for the...
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