Member Orientation 2017

Awesome AmeriCorps Program

Member Orientation 2017

Sunday, September 7:

Welcome

“Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.”

- Marian Wright Edelman

5p.m.Welcome!

5:20p.m.Icebreaker

5:40p.m.Mission & History of Organization

6p.m.Dinner (on site)

During DinnerHistory/Mission/Structure of National Service

7:15 p.m. Expectations forOrientation

7:45p.m.Team Builder

8:45p.m.Wrap Up (review next day schedule)

9 p.m.Adjourn for the night

Monday, September 8:

Policies & Procedures

You learn something every day if you pay attention.

- Ray LeBlond

7:30-8:30 a.m.Breakfast

8:30a.m. Daily Round Up

8:50 a.m.Icebreaker

9:15a.m.Member & Supervisor Policy Review

11:15a.m.Break

11:30a.m.Member & Supervisor Policy Review, part 2

12p.m.Lunch (off site & on your own)

1:30 p.m.Policy Q&A

2:30p.m.Policy Wrap Up and Forms Review

4 p.m. Nonprofits 101

5p.m. Reflection Activity

5:30 p.m.Adjourn until dinner

6p.m. Dinner (off-site, planned for all)

7:30p.m.Area scavenger hunt

Tuesday, September 9:

Skill-Building

If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.

If you want ten years of prosperity, grow trees.

If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.

- Chinese proverb

7:30-8:30 a.m.Breakfast

8:30a.m.Conflict Resolution

9:50a.m.Introduction to Capacity Building

10:50 a.m.Break

11a.m.VolunteerRecruitment 101

12p.m.Lunch (off site, members and supervisors “get to know you”)

1:30p.m.Evaluation and Measurement

3:00p.m.How to Implement a Service Project

4:30 p.m.Break

5p.m.Our Story

6p.m.Dinner (off site, planned)

8p.m. How to talk to people about our organization and AmeriCorps!

9 p.m.Adjourn for the day

Wednesday, September 10:

Poverty & Work Day

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world.

Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
- Margaret Mead

7:30-8:30 a.m.Breakfast

8:30a.m.Daily Round Up

8:45 p.m.Icebreaker

8:45 a.m.The population our organization serves

11:30 a.m.Lunch (provided) on the way to work site

12-5 p.m.WORK DAY

6 p.m.Dinner (off site, on your own)

7:30 p.m.Movie Night (optional)

Thursday, September 11:

Connecting the Dots

“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connected.”

- Chief Seattle

7:30-8:30 a.m.Breakfast

8:30a.m.Daily Round Up

8:45 a.m.Reflection Activity

9:15a.m.Active Citizenship

10:45a.m.Break

11a.m.Professional Success

12p.m.Lunch (provided on site)

1p.m.Community Outreach Strategies

2 p.m.Stretching Your Budget

3 p.m.Members’ Communication Plan (with each other)

4p.m.Orientation Debrief/ Q &A

5p.m.Member Activity

6p.m.Dinner (off site, planned)

Friday, September 12:

Swearing In

Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success.

- Henry Ford

7:30-8:30 a.m.Breakfast

8:30a.m.Team Builder

9:30a.m.Our organization & National Service Resources

10a.m.Reflection Activity

10:30a.m.Swearing In Ceremony

11:30a.m.Lunch (provided, box lunch)

Orientation ends and members depart

Thanks for a great week and safe travels home!!