HandsOn Network is redefining the learning process for volunteer training. As educators and employers increasingly recognize civic engagement as a desirable trait, we are evolving our tools and resources to meet the increased demand in formalized training. Powered by University of Phoenix, the leader in online learning, HandsOn Network has launched the HandsOn University Online Learning Center, an interactive e-Learning site, to transform the capacity of people to take action that changes the world.

Our premier e-Learning course, Skills-based Volunteering (SBV), is an interactive, online training course exposing participants to the principles of skills-based and pro-bono volunteering. The course begins by teaching participants about skills-based volunteering and its benefits and challenges. Participants can then choose which area of specific volunteering to focus their studies on: individual, business, or nonprofit. The course then concludes with implementation and management of a SBV program. This course provides participants with real examples, tips, and easy-to-follow steps for getting involved in the community, as well as for getting volunteers involved in an organization.

It was a nonprofit created over ten years ago to facilitate volunteering at local nonprofits in the Albuquerque area. It recently donated $14,000 to the UNM Foundation to benefit the nonprofit community and its hard working volunteer managers. Over the past 18 months, Volunteer Albuquerque, with support from the Center for Nonprofit Excellence, M.O.V.E, NM Commission on Volunteerism and the CVC have been working with UNM’s Continuing Education, to establish a Volunteer Management Certificate Program as its legacy to the community. The donation will fund scholarships for this certificate program, which consists of courses specifically designed for volunteer managers in the areas of motivating and managing volunteers, communicating and creating positive change in nonprofits.

Volunteer Albuquerque (VA), was the predecessor to the City of Albuquerque’s M.O.V.E Office, established in 2005 to continue VA’s works of matching volunteers with nonprofits that needed them. For four years, VA worked with M.O.V.E. to produce seminars and the brown bag series for volunteer managers until 2009, at which time it decided to cease active operations.

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National Day of Service
September 11, 2010
9:00-2:00 PM

• Build the Spirit of Service
• Hands-on Trail Preservation
• Santa Barbara Canyon
• Free Lunch! Register by Sept.7th 751-1420
• Tools, Gloves and Training Provided

Eli Segal started the AmeriCorps Alums Entrepreneurship Award during his life to recognize alumni with similar promise. To honor Eli’s life and to build upon his legacy, AmeriCorps Alums awards one alumnus each year who has demonstrated an outstanding entrepreneurial commitment to service beyond their term with AmeriCorps. And we will close nominations August 31.

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Along with recognition among peers, in the media and our online networks, the award entails a cash prize of $5,000 and travel to an in-person recognition ceremony in Washington D.C. Think you or someone you know is walking in Eli's footsteps? Nominate them today and tell your alum friends... while there's still time! We'll close the nominations on August 31st.

9/11 Day of Service Funding Application Form

Describe how your 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance Serve Outdoors project will meet energy-efficiency and environmental needs within New Mexico communities and include volunteer participation (limit 500 words). Funding availability is $500-$2,000 per project, include a budget for the 9/11 National Day of Service and Remembrance Serve Outdoors project. Projects must occur around September 11, 2010.

If you have a project you would like to propose, please complete the form below and submit no later than 5:00 pm, August 17th, 2010.