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Planning Tools
- Do You Need a Volunteer?
- Standards of Excellence for Host Organizations
- Writing a Volunteer Job Description
- Christian Volunteering Manual(DOC) - includes sample recruitment flyers and job descriptions
- Online Recruitment and Mass Marketing (Powerpoint)
- Increase Volunteerism in Your Congregation
- Recruiting and Retaining Volunteers in Faith-Based Organizations
- Volunteer Listing Services
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- Recommended Christian Staff Recruitment Websites
- Work-Study Training Using Work Study Students as Volunteers (Webcast) (PPt)
- Work Study Recruitment Facts
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Training and Supervising Volunteers
- Volunteer and Work-Study Management Training
- Volunteer Management Training for Urban Ministries and Churches : (Webcast) (PPt)
- 12 Basic Needs of Volunteers
- Standards of Excellence for Volunteer Group Leaders
- Training Template for Christian Volunteers on How to Serve Well(PPt)
- Project Management
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Now accepting resumes for one year internship through AmeriCorps with national Urban Ministry based in Boston starting in January 2008.
Other positions include Volunteer Coordinator & Graphic Designer.
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Both volunteers and volunteer managers can find training resources at the UrbanMinistry.org volunteering wiki encyclopedia.
TechMission ChristianVolunteering.org provides a manual and trainings for volunteer managers, which are intended to help streamline the process of recruiting volunteers and getting them into the proper place within your ministry.
TechMission's volunteer training webcasts will help you learn how to find a ministry that suits your interests and how to serve there effectively.
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Urban Ministry Internships
TechMission Corps offers two ways for you to serve in urban ministry organizations:
- Internships with City Vision College allow students not familiar with working with rescue ministries to get on-site training while serving in a local approved ministry.
- Starting this summer TechMission Corps' AmeriCorps program is offering one-year full-time paid internships serving in urban ministries in Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles helping urban ministry organizations use technology to help address injustice and develop at-risk communities.

