Senior Corps offers organizations an abundance of resources to help establish and maintain well-managed and effective service and volunteer programs.

The Resource Center

The Resource Center is your online stop for tools and training resources to strengthen your volunteer or service program. Through The Resource Center you can search and acess online training tools, event calendars, and effective practices, as well as a catalogue of printed publications and videos available on loan. In addition, The Resource Center serves as a learning exchange where individual programs can share their innovations and effective practices with others. The Resource Center's content is generated by a network of more than 20 training and technical assistance providers. Visit The Resource Center.

Here are links to some of the most requested resources from The Resource Center:

• Training and Technical Assistance Resource Guide
• Building Blocks for Effective Service Programs. Building Blocks refer to the key components of well-managed and effective service and volunteer programs and include:
  • Board and Advisory Leadership
  • Community Collaboration
  • Financial Management
  • Infrastructure
  • Marketing and Communications
  • Organizational Culture
  • Program Accountability
  • Service-Learning
  • Staffing and Development
  • Volunteer Management
• Online and Print Publications
• Sample Forms Library
• Directory of Effective Practices

Effective Practices

• List of Effective Practices featured on SeniorCorps.gov
• Complete Directory of Effective Practices from the Resource Center

Senior Corps Tech Center

The Senior Corps Tech Center helps Senior Corps programs make meaningful and effective use of technology. Visit the Senior Corps Tech Center.

Program Handbooks and Information

• Foster Grandparent Program Handbook
• FGP Handbook Appendices
• RSVP Handbook
  • RSVP Handbook Appendices
• Senior Companion Program Handbook
• SCP Handbook Appendices
• 2005 Income Eligibility Guidelines
• Service Categories —for grantees to categorize volunteer activities and the needs they meet.This list of replaces the previous Senior Corps Program's Basic Human Needs Codes (BHN) list.

Forms

Both official and sample forms are available online. Official forms are those required by Senior Corps to manage and report on grants. Sample forms, which are neither official nor required, have been provided by grantees and others.

• Official Senior Corps Forms
• Sample Forms Library

Additional Tools

• Conference and Training calendar
• Service-related links
• Guide to Working With the Media
• Senior Corps Toolkit: Performance Measurement Initiatives