Utilizing Volunteers

General Office Work

• Develop handbook, settling-in guide
• Develop flyers for special information
• Help research resources – Web sites, schools, academic courses
• Host an English conversation group
• Help with orientation
• Answer phones
• Sit on selection committee for scholarships
• Sit on international advisory committee
• Help organize special activities – International Education Week, International Night, bus trips, Speakers Bureau, Global Classroom
• Assist in maintenance of computers

Friendship Family Program

• Recruit host families
• Write and produce recruitment literature
• Develop application forms
• Set up and maintain databases
• Develop FF Web site
• Write newsletter for FFs and participating students
• Contact assigned students and FFs to ascertain contact and answer questions
• Plan gatherings for FFs and their students

International Family Program

• Man a table at orientation
• Produce brochures about IFP
• Develop application forms
• Produce special flyers for family members
• Prepare packets of useful information
• Set up and maintain databases
• Develop FF Web site
• Plan and conduct coffee mornings
• Host an English conversation group
• Organize a lending library