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• Best Practices In Workplace Volunteering. Points of Light Foundation and Volunteer Center National Network. http://pointsoflight.org/organizations/workplace_vol.cfm

• Case Study - Program Example: Building A Successful Partnership. State Franchise Tax Board for the Schools Partnership Program. Download File

• Collaborating to Make Democracy Work. The American Assembly, http://www.americanassembly.org/publications.htm. Download File

• Corporate Flyer Form - Sample Form, Mentoring Institute. Download File

• Corporate Follow-Up Letter Form - Sample Form. Mentoring Institute. Download File

• Corporate Letter Sample. State Franchise Tax Board for the Schools Partnership Program. Download File

• Creating "New Value" Partnerships with Business: Step by Step. Adapted Shirley Sagawa for INDEPENDENT SECTOR. This piece examines seven intensive partnerships between businesses and social sector organizations. http://www.independentsector.org/mission_market/sagawa.htm

• Effective Practice: Building Successful Partnerships. National Resource Center
  http://epicenter.nationalserviceresources.org/index.taf?_function=practice&show=summary&Layout_0_uid1=32917

• For Corporations-A Workplace Guide To Mentoring. National Mentoring Partnership.
  http://www.mentoring.org/run_a_program/for_corporations/for_corporations.adp  

• For Corporations-Options and Opportunities for Mentoring America’s Youth. National Mentoring Partnership. This is a workplace guide to mentoring youth.  It provides ideas for how to become involved in mentoring. http://www.mentoring.org/run_a_program/for_corporations/for_corporations.adp

• Forming and Maintaining Partnerships - Module 4. National Mentoring Center. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/Mod4.pdf

• Meeting the Collaboration Challenge (Workbook). The Drucker Foundation. http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/index.html

• The Nonprofit Sector and Business: New Visions, New Opportunities, New Challenges. The Aspen Institute, Nonprofit Sector Strategy Group. www.aspeninstitute.org. Download File

• Steps to Success for Small to Medium Size Businesses: How to Build an Employee Volunteer Program that WORKS. Points of Light. http://pointsoflight.org/resources/details.cfm?ID=10137

• Theme: Work-Based Mentoring. National Mentoring Center. 
  Bulletin #4, Winter 2000 Features: a successful hospital mentoring program makes a difference, gender issues in mentoring, new research on school-age mentoring, the latest in work-based mentoring resources. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/bull4.pdf

• A Guide for Working with the Media. Corporation for National and Community Service.
  http://www.cns.gov/resources/cross/media_guide.pdf

• Building Successful Partnerships. National Service-Learning Clearinghouse. http://www.servicelearning.org/filemanager/download/157/

• Coalitions: Lessons Learned. Joël L. Phillips, The EMT Group, Inc. Download File

• Collaboration and Community Involvement. Center for Civic Partnerships.        http://www.civicpartnerships.org/default.asp?id=155  

• Collaboration: What Makes it Work, Second Edition. Paul Mattessich and Marta Murray-Close / Wilder Publishing Center.  http://www.nassembly.org/nassembly/2003/Wilder.htm

• Collaborative Leadership. www.pew-partnership.org/collableadership/collableadership.html

• Community Organizing. Center for Civic Partnerships. http://www.civicpartnerships.org/default.asp?id=148

• Developing Successful Partnership Programs. National Association of Elementary School Principals. http://www.naesp.org/ContentLoad.do?contentId=1121

• Theme: Faith-Based Mentoring. National Mentoring Center. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/bull12.pdf

• Forming and Maintaining Partnerships - Module 4. National Mentoring Center. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/Mod4.pdf

• Gaining Momentum: Strengthening your Community of Promise through Effective Collaboration. http://www.americaspromise.org/files/September2002.pdf

• Health for All: Making Community Collaboration Work. Howard Greenwald, et al. (ISBN: 1567931804).

• Listing of California mentoring coalitions. http://www.mentoring.ca.gov/coalitions.shtm

• Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: Developing Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses. Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (Author) (ISBN: 0787962317). http://www.pfdf.org/collaboration/index.html

• Network for Good:  http://www.networkforgood.org/

• School, Family, and Community: Techniques and Models for Successful Collaboration. Michael J. Dietz (Editor), Jamie Whaley (Editor), Michael Diete, Warwick. (ISBN: 0834207087).

• Steering Committee Information. Download File

• Tips on Working with State and Local Legislators. State Franchise Tax Board for the Schools Partnership Program. Download File

• Working with Law Enforcement: Asking the Right Questions. Mary Jagim and Mary Ann Teeter Wylie. http://www.ena.org/encare/resources/AskRightQuestions.PDF

• The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring. (Technical Assistance Packet #1). National Mentoring Center.
  This publication is the first of our series of Technical Assistance Packets, designed to help programs with many of the current "hot topics" in the mentoring field. The ABCs of School-Based Mentoring is a 100-page guide to developing, promoting, and strengthening a school-based youth mentoring program.  The publication is available in two sections for easier downloading. Part 1 is the main text; Part 2 is an Appendix of sample forms that programs can model from as they implement the program. Part 1  Part 2

• After School Collaboration: When It Works - Why It Works - A Literature Review.
  National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations. http://www.nassembly.org/nassembly/2003/NAPublications.htm

• Community Schools:  Partnerships For Excellence.  "Using public schools as a hub, inventive, enduring relationships among educators, families, community volunteers, business, health, and social service agencies, youth development organizations and others committed to children are changing the education landscape ¾ permanently ¾ by transforming traditional schools into partnerships for excellence." http://www.communityschools.org/partnershipsforexcellence.pdf

• Dimensions Of School/Community Collaboration. National Assembly of Health and Human Service Organizations. http://www.nassembly.org/nassembly/2003/NAPublications.htm

• Educating America's Youth:  What Makes A Difference. Zakia Redd, M.P.P., Jennifer Brooks, Ph.D. and Ayelish M. McGarvey.  This article presents the benefits of introducing mentoring into schools. http://www.childtrends.org/PDF/K4Brief.pdf

• Education and Community Building:  Connecting Two Worlds. Institute for Education Leadership. http://www.communityschools.org/combuild.pdf

• Forming and Maintaining Partnerships - Module 4. National Mentoring Center. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/Mod4.pdf

• Guidelines for School Officials, Volunteers and Mentors Participating in Public School Community Partnerships. http://www.ed.gov/inits/religionandschools/v-guide.html

• Learning, Academics, and Mentoring. Mentoring Institute. Newsletter: Connections. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/files/Spring2003.ind.PDF

• Meeting the Collaboration Challenge Workbook: Developing Strategic Alliances Between Nonprofit Organizations and Businesses. Peter F. Drucker.  Foundation for Nonprofit Management (Author) (ISBN: 0787962317)

• National Dropout Rates: Sources, Problems, And Efforts Toward Solutions.
  http://www.dropoutprevention.org/resource/solu_strat/SS1.pdf

• Partner Power And Service-Learning Manual For Community-Based Organizations To Work With Schools. Rich Cairn

• Partnering for Educational Improvement. http://www.civicpartnerships.org/default.asp?ID=218

• Sample School Superintendent Letter. State Franchise Tax Board for the Schools Partnership Program.
  Download File

• School-Based Programs. Mentoring Institute, Article. http://www.homestead.com/prosites-ffy/files/schoolbasedprograms.htm

• School-Linked Services. The Future of Children, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation. VOLUME 2, NUMBER 1 - SPRING 1992, Journal Issue

• Theme: School-Based Mentoring. National Mentoring Center. 
  Bulletin #5, Summer 2000 Features: Dr. Susan Weinberger's program development tips, latest school-based research, school-based models, featured resources for program implementation, training update. Bulletin #5, Summer 2000

• At the Table (http://www.atthetable.org/) is billed as an online clearinghouse featuring everything you need to know about effectively involving youth in your organization and your community.

• Central CAPT - http://www.ccapt.org/youthasleaders.html

• Changing the Face of Giving: An Assessment of Youth Philanthropy. Youth Leadership Institute (http://www.yli.org/publications.php). http://www.yli.org/philanthropy/files/changing_the_face.pdf

• Fact Sheet. National Youth Development Information Center.
  http://www.nydic.org/nydic/Youth%20Development%20Fact%20Sheet.doc

• Finding Out What Matters for Youth: Testing Key Links in a Community Action
  for Youth Development Framework. http://www.ydsi.org/YDSI/pdf/WhatMatters.pdf 

• The Freechild Project. http://www.freechild.org/publications.htm

• The Innovation Center. http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/images/documents/01300209513793_Youth%20Leading%20Now!.pdf.

• Mentoring: A Promising Strategy for Youth Development. Jekielek, S.M., et. al. Child Trends Research Brief. February 2002. http://www.childtrends.org/PDF/MentoringBrief2002.pdf

• National Youth Development Information Center at www.nydic.org/nydic has information and directories of youth development resources.

• Social and Economic Context of Child Development: The Effect of Poverty and Trauma in Childhood. Plenary Session 2 of Keys to Successful Mentoring Programs, presented October 10, 2001. Denise Johnston, M.D. http://www.gse.uci.edu/ngis/mentoring/

• Students in Service to America: A Guidebook for Engaging America's Youth  in a Lifelong Habit of Service.
  The Students in Service to America guidebook and CD-ROM were developed through a collaboration of the Corporation for National and Community Service, the U.S. Department of Education and the Points of Light Foundation and the Volunteer Center National Network with the USA Freedom Corps. http://www.studentsinservicetoamerica.org/guidebook/index.html

• Student Mentoring. National Mentoring Center.
  One of the first mentoring publications developed by NWREL, this booklet takes a look at the positive impact youth mentoring can make in schools and communities. http://www.nwrel.org/mentoring/pdf/mentoring.pdf

• Unique Strengths, Shared Strengths: Developmental Assets Among Youth of Color.  Search Institute, November 2003, Volume 1, Issue 2.
  http://www.search-institute.org/research/Insights/InsightsEvidence-11-03.pdf

• Youth-Adult Partnerships Tip Sheet. http://www.freechild.org/YAPtips.htm

• Youth as Leaders in Prevention. Central CAPT. http://www.ccapt.org/youthasleaders.html 

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