Sending

Stay Informed

• Sending Memos
• Monthly Sending Volunteer Calls
• Sending Training
• Where to Look and Who to Contact with Sending Questions

'How To': Tending Your Sending Garden

Planting Seeds - Pre-recruitment and Recruitment:

• Get the word out about AFS in your community - Pre-recruitment
• Identify potential AFSers - Recruitment
  • Give School Presentations
  • Hold an Information Event
  • Hand out cards with Pre-app Discount labels
  • Collect and Submit Your Leads

Nurturing Seedlings - Conversion

• Join the Pre-app-a-thon!!!
• Supporting Students Newly Interested in AFS
• Advising Students on Country Choice
• Connect with New Applicants in your area
• Provide Sending Interviews
• Check on a student's scholarship status

Harvest Time - Retention

• Support students as they prepare to depart
• Provide Orientations and Pre-Departure Information
  • Get Dates for Pre-Departure Orientations
• Learn more about Best Practices for Sending

Sending Volunteer Trainings

Upcoming Trainings

• RSVP for Sending Training and Volunteer Calls
• AFS Sending 101 - Online Info Session for Volunteers

Sending Manuals

• Passport to Sending Recruitment
• Sending Interviews
• Find volunteers who live near sending students who need interviews
• Sending Volunteer Activity List
• Sending Plan Template
• Terms used in sending

Tutorials and Online Modules

• Representing AFS in High Schools Training Modules
• Sending Interview Training Modules
• Global Link Tutorials for Sending
• Salesforce 101 - Tutorial

Training Resources

View all of our recurrent volunteer training presentations.

• Representing AFS in High Schools
• Mentoring Students through the Application Process
• Retention 101
• Sending 101
• Sending 201
• Supporting your Students' Fundraising Success

Volunteer Conferences

• 2010 National Volunteer Coordinator and Sending Conference

Forms

• Preliminary application
• Sending Online Application
• Sending Interview Form (Form 8) - To be filled out by the Sending Interviewer

Program Information

• Year and Semester, Gap Year and Summer 2012 Programs
• Group Programs for Educators and their Students
• New Programs

Visa and Travel

• Visa Information
• Welcome Booklets and Safety Tips
• Sending Travel (private page)

Marketing Resources

• Sending Marketing Materials
• Using Media Clips to Promote Sending

Scholarships and Fundraising

• Scholarships for Sending
• Fundraising For Students

Sending Processes

• Sending Application, Admission and Preparation Process
• Lead Management Process

Statistics

• Lead Management
• Private:Progress towards Goal

Staff and Volunteer Positions

• Sending Staff
• Sending Volunteer Position Descriptions
• Where to Look and Who to Contact with Sending Questions
• Outbound Programs Community Development Project
• National Sending Advisory Group, also known as SAGe
• Private:2010-2011 Sending Strategy Volunteer Survey Results

Returnees

• Returnee Initiative
• Returnee Pilot Projects
• Returnee Welcome
• Integrating Returnees in the Sending Process
• Returnee
• Returnee activities
• Grants, Internships, Jobs in International Education for AFS Returnees and Others

AFS Sending- Miscellaneous

List of all wiki pages related to sending

To Update

• Interactive Maps of NH11 Applicants In Your Region
• Questions & Answers
• Talking about Money
• School Relations
• Setting Expectations, Answers to Common Sending Questions : Sending