Building Community

When people feel connected to their community and its issues, they are more likely to volunteer. Volunteer managers can help volunteers make these important connections and understand how their involvement builds community.

Tip Sheets

• Getting to Know Your Community
• Deepen Community Action through Reflection
  
• Start Your Own Community Project
  
• Project Appeal Activity
• Working with Volunteers' Schedules

Effective Practices

• Building Effective Partnerships
• Volunteering by, in, and with Low-income Communities
• Recruiting Qualified Volunteer Tutors in Low-income Urban Communities

Online Resources

• How to Mobilize Church Volunteers
• Recruitment Techniques: Speaking to Community Groups
• Neighboring: Building Strong Families and Communities
• Ten Things to Research, Evaluate or at Least Think About
• Community Tool Box
• Operating a Program in a Rural Community
• Urban “Mini-Grants” Provide Lessons in Capacity Building
• Building Better Communities with Student Volunteers: An Evaluation Report on the Student Community Service Program
• Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement
  
• Student Volunteer Leadership Guide
  

Books

• Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

• Connecting Rural Communities: Volunteering and Neighboring

• Mapping Community Assets