1. Program Management
2011 Fall Directors Meeting

2. Topics
• Bonner Resources
• BWBRS
• Bonner AmeriCorps
• Questions? Suggestions?

3. Bonner Wiki Updated

4. Bonner Social Media

5. Bonner Email Updates
• Bonner Weekly
• Bonner Student Email
• Issue-based Listserv

6. Bonner Weekly

7. Bonner Student Email
• Goal: reach each Bonner with news
about conferences, policy reminders,
job openings, resources, etc.

8. Bonner Issue Listserv

9. Bonner Issue Listserv
• Pilot effort in New Jersey to link
students based on issue interests

10. Bonner Issue Listserv
• Pilot effort in New Jersey to link
students based on issue interests
• PolicyOptions Coordinators will
moderate

11. Bonner Issue Listserv
• Pilot effort in New Jersey to link
students based on issue interests
• PolicyOptions Coordinators will
moderate
• Share news, announce events, ask
questions

12. BWBRS
• Recently Added Features
• Planning New Features
• Feature Requests?

13. Recent Updates

14. Planning Features

15. Requests?

16. Bonner AmeriCorps
• CNCS Service Priorities
• Communication & Training
★ AmeriCorps Wiki
★ Certfication
• Reminders

17. CNCS Service Priorities
Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3
• Education • Economic • Programs that
Opportunity select pilot
• Veteran’s measures
Services • Healthy Futures
• Disaster • Environmental
Services Stewardship
• Capacity
Building

18. Bonner Service Hours
Environment
6%
Education
39% 55%
Human Needs/
Public Safety
from BWBRS — Oct ’10 - Nov ’11

19. CNCS Service Measures
Service Priority Measures
Education Academic achievement
Number veterans or veteran families
Veterans
served
Number of seniors or people with
Healthy Futures
disabilities receiving food services
Number of economically disadvantaged
Economic Opp.
individuals receiving housing services

20. Communication & Training
• Wiki Resources
• Bonner Reporting Certfication
• Reminders

21. Challenges
• Strict Federal rules
• Lots of details to remember
• Staff changeover
• Getting student attention

22. AmeriCorps Wiki Updated
• Chronological Layout
• Sidebar Highlights Latest Updates
• AmeriCorps Newsletter
• Key Forms and Documents
• Program Reporting

24. Bonner Reporting Certification
• Bonner AmeriCorps
★ Recruitment & Selection
★ Enrollment
★ Member Tracking
★ Exiting
• Bonner Scholar Program

25. Certification Process
• To be required for any staff managing
AmeriCorps or BSP reporting
• Review training powerpoint & video
• Take short 8-10 question online quiz
for each module

26. AmeriCorps Reminders
• Member Recruitment
• Member Enrollment
• Service Placements
• BWBRS Service Descriptions
• National Review Process
• Hour Logs
• Suspension & Reinstatement
• Member Exit

27. Questions?
Suggestions?

28. Member Recruitment
• Establish a recruitment plan and timetable
• Recruit a cohort of students
• Hold a Bonner AmeriCorps 101
Orientation
• Set firm deadlines for students to return
paperwork
• Always provide the Foundation with
updated slot enrollment projections

29. Member Enrollment
• National Sex Offender Public Website
• Double check enrollment paperwork
prior to sending to the Foundation
• Be sure to send the correct eligibility
documentation

30. Service Placements
• Nonprofit status
• Direct service and capacity building
activities
• Service benefiting underserved population
• No AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities
• Limited fundraising (10% cap)

31. BWBRS Service Descriptions
• Mission of the organization including
nonprofit status
• Description of service activities (no
AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities)
• Population Served
• No AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities
• Limited fundraising (10% cap)

32. National Review Process
• Mission of the organization including
nonprofit status
• Description of service activities (no
AmeriCorps Prohibited Activities)
• Population Served

33. Hour Logs
• Send on a monthly basis
• Utilize electronic signatures

34. Suspension & Reinstatement
• Develop a strategy for requesting
suspension and reinstatement
• No retroactive suspensions

35. Member Exit
• Use the Review Sheet sent in the October
AmeriCorps Newsletter in conjunction
with the new Analysis Tab in BWBRS
• Make sure to complete evaluations in
BWBRS
• Double check enrollment paperwork prior
to sending to the Foundation