Discusses the need for a training program for school governors in Great Britain. Highlights the program developed and implemented in Leicestershire. (JOW)

Compared personal characteristics, motivations for entering volunteer work, activities, problem situations encountered, and rewarding experiences of volunteers in adult and juvenile justice agencies for volunteers. Although levels of satisfaction and strength of motivations varied somewhat, subjects were remarkably similar in their general…

Prior experience learning often requires new and different kinds of measurement techniques. Methods are described that have been developed to identify and assess the prior experiential learning of adult women from their unpaid work in the home and the community. (Author/PN)

Self-help programs, with visually impaired older adult participants who are both the consumers and providers of the programs they initiate, provide services such as a setting for learning new skills, a telephone support network self-help groups, and information and referral service. (MC)

This article outlines the careful planning involved in successful parent volunteer programs and the invaluable services such volunteers provide the schools. Included is a list of seven ways to get parents involved with the school. (MD)

Considers how schools can work with organizations, businesses, and families to involve community volunteers in developing educational policy and fiscal resources and in providing classroom teaching activities. (MP)

Three approaches to athletic fund-raising are presented. A booster club at Florida State runs the fund raising campaign. At Georgia Institute of Technology, athletic fund-raising and athletic programing are centered in a single office. The University of Tennessee-Chattanooga's development office handles athletic fund-raising. (MLW)

Evaluated responses of volunteers to a telephone crisis line to determine presence of appropriate statements to offer to a caller. Most responses were advisements, which were high for calls dealing with loneliness and dating. Feelings were ignored by most volunteers. This was considered inappropriate for helping agencies. (Author)

Fred Engh, president of the National Youth Sports Coaches Association, discusses problems in youth sports, including: win-at-all-costs coaching philosophies, parent involvement, and lack of proper training for volunteers. (CJ)

Black volunteers differed significantly, scoring higher on the Hypochondriasis, Depression, and Hysteria scales. Such differences add evidence against the addiction-prone personality hypothesis and underscore the need for evaluating the effects of voluntarism and ethnicity in personality research on drug abuse. (Author)

Four places to look in order to identify those who have the best potential as fund raisers for a college are the best givers, corporate heads, salespersons, and the deeply dedicated. Team solicitation is advocated and is seen as more powerful than an appeal made by an individual. (MLW)

A volunteer project by a community group has enabled parents to have access to a lending library of materials for home instruction of their handicapped children. Teachers specify materials appropriate to the child's needs. (CL)

Deferred gifts are defined as gifts a donor arranges in the present in a legally binding way, but which are deferred as far as the recipient's full enjoyment is concerned. Four roles for volunteers in deferred giving programs are considered--introducing, authenticating, advising, and soliciting. (Author/MLW)

Most citizen participation in schools involves direct service that helps to enrich the educational opportunities of children. Public policy has erred in recent years by channeling parents' interest in education solely into advisory roles. (Author/MLF)

The success of the annual fund-raising campaign is seen to depend in large part on a careful search for and cultivation of a select group of generous donors. Leadership giving is defined, and creating gift clubs, solicitation, competition and challenges, pitfalls, and renewal are discussed. (Author/MLW)