Senior Corps Directors Meeting

1. Senior Corps Directors Meeting December 2, 2008 Welcome

2. MLK Day Jan. 19, 2008CNCS and State Commission Website for collaboration and reporting • Link: http://my.mlkday.gov/public/NewCoordinatorAccount.aspx?oid=3276 Go to: Set up Log-In Information Questions: Contact Mitzi Miller at 1-800-WV-HELPS or Mitzi.Miller@cns.gov • Timeline for registering activities/opportunities • Please post opportunities by December 19th

3. 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_funders.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.   It’s 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

4. 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/GIZMOs/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/businessworldtravelkit/

5. PPVA Name Change • Are they all in? • New Name on eGrants: • “PPVA” title changed to “Progress Report Supplement” or “PRS” on menu screen. • Tammy Barr would like copies of PPVAs faxed to her by Friday, December 5th to use to report to legislature

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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/boomerbook

9. Strategic Initiatives #1 Harnessing Baby Boomers’ Experience and Independent Living Resources (cont.) • The Resource Center’s main page for resources related to the boomer initiative is http://www.nationalserviceresources.org/initiative-boomers. Some of particular interest are discussed below. • Temple University’s Center for Intergenerational Learning. To assist Senior Corps grantees in attracting the Baby Boomer population, the Corporation’s 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.

10. 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-training-curriculum

11. 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. VolunteerMatch’s 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

12. Other discussion • Association Updates • Questions/Comments Happy Holidays!