The Sustainability binder & database
Completing a Sustainability Binder for your CAC Program
Goal: To create a sustainability binder, with the assistance of your CAC Program Supervisor, that you can pass on to the next AmeriCorps CAC member so they will have a head start on their new grant year. The Sustainability Binder will help sustain the efforts you started the year before and help your campus CAC program have a head start for the new grant year. As the AmeriCorps Member, it is your responsibility to maintain a sustainability binder throughout the program year both at your site and on the shared Google Drive CAC Sustainability Binder Database. To gain access to the CAC Sustainability Binder Database, please contact Kaycie López Jones at kaycie@oregoncampuscompact.org to have them share it with you.
The Sustainability Binder is to be completed during the course of your AmeriCorps service year.
Organize in 3 sections (please save online and as hard copy):Best Practice: Write a 1 - 2 page monthly overview at the end of each month with bullet points of activities, events, contacts, resources, etc. during each calendar month. Also, include one or two paragraphs stating activities that engaged youth and activities youth were not engaged in or didn't show interest. This monthly overview will be an outline for the next year's AmeriCorps member so they do not have to reinvent the wheel for your program and they will have a strong foundation in which to build upon the program with your monthly updates.
Section 1: Timeline/Contact List
Section 2: Resources
Section 3: Assessment & Miscellaneous
Goal: To create a sustainability binder, with the assistance of your CAC Program Supervisor, that you can pass on to the next AmeriCorps CAC member so they will have a head start on their new grant year. The Sustainability Binder will help sustain the efforts you started the year before and help your campus CAC program have a head start for the new grant year. As the AmeriCorps Member, it is your responsibility to maintain a sustainability binder throughout the program year both at your site and on the shared Google Drive CAC Sustainability Binder Database. To gain access to the CAC Sustainability Binder Database, please contact Kaycie López Jones at kaycie@oregoncampuscompact.org to have them share it with you.
The Sustainability Binder is to be completed during the course of your AmeriCorps service year.
Organize in 3 sections (please save online and as hard copy):Best Practice: Write a 1 - 2 page monthly overview at the end of each month with bullet points of activities, events, contacts, resources, etc. during each calendar month. Also, include one or two paragraphs stating activities that engaged youth and activities youth were not engaged in or didn't show interest. This monthly overview will be an outline for the next year's AmeriCorps member so they do not have to reinvent the wheel for your program and they will have a strong foundation in which to build upon the program with your monthly updates.
Section 1: Timeline/Contact List
Section 2: Resources
Section 3: Assessment & Miscellaneous
- Welcome Letter
- Service Year Calendar- Document important dates/events throughout RPC Term
- Events held, documented procedures
- Contacts – Important contacts and Who’s Who at Host Organization, (volunteers and staff)
- Community Partners (including organizations, stakeholders, program champions, civic clubs)
- Manuals and Training Materials
- Forms and materials created
- Marketing: Flyers, brochures, website links, and publicity materials
- Presentations
- Progress Reports: Copies
- On Corps Reporting Instructions
- RFP/Grant Application
- Your Suggestions & Recommendations
- Exit ProceduresAmeriCorps Sustainability Binder Resources: