General

• Experience Corps
• How to Build Your Community Partnerships for Learning
• Involving Parents in the Education of Their Children
• Reference Checks (from Staff Screening Tool Kit, 1st edition)

Guides and Programs

• Foundations of Successful Youth Mentoring: A Guidebook for Program Development
• Guidelines for School Officials, Volunteers, and Mentors Participating in Public School Community Partnerships
• Mentor Screening
• Mentoring Programs and Youth Development: A Synthesis
• Successful Strategies for recruiting, training, and utilizing volunteers: A guide for faith and community-based service providers
• Guidelines for the Screening Persons Working with Children, the Elderly, and Individuals with Disabilities in Need of Support

Mentors

• The Mentor Directory
• Mentoring School-Age Children: Relationship Development in Community-Based and School-Based Programs
• School-Based Mentoring: A First Look into its Potential
• School-based Mentoring: A Closer Look
• Student Mentoring Program (from the Dubuque Community School District)
• Understanding and Facilitating the Youth Mentoring Movement

Volunteers

• Berkeley School Volunteers
• Legal Issues in School Volunteer Programs (PDF Document, 366K)
• Making the Most of Volunteers
• Screening (from No Surprises: Controlling Risks in Volunteer Programs)
• Springfield School Volunteers
• Sunset Ridge Elementary School Volunteers
• Using Volunteers in the School
• Volunteer Management Capacity in America's Charities and Congregations: A Briefing Report
• Volunteer Management Practices and Retention of Volunteers
• Volunteers in Public Schools

Related Agencies and Websites

• America's Promise- The Alliance for Youth
• Americorps
• Big Brothers Big Sisters
• Children First: The Website of the National PTA
• Circle K International
• Communities In Schools
• Community Engagement and Volunteerism
• Corporation for National Service
• E-Volunteerism: the Electronic Journal of the Volunteer Community
• LAUSD Volunteer Opportunities
• Learn and Serve America
• National Mentoring Center
• National Mentoring Partnership
• National Service-Learning Clearinghouse
• Tutor/Mentor Connection
• The Virtual Volunteering Project
• VolunteerMatch.org
• Volunteer for Our Children
• Volunteer in Public Schools

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained through Libraries

• Becoming successful readers: A volunteer tutoring program for culturally diverse students. M. Moore-Hart & S.A. Karabenick (2000). Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. (New Orleans, LA, April 24-28, 2000).
• "Do Classroom Volunteers Benefit Schools?" Brent, B.O. (2000). Principal, 80, 36-40.
• "Do Schools Really Need More Volunteers?" Brent, B.O. (2000) Educational Policy, 14(4):494-513.
• "Effectiveness of mentoring programs for youth: A meta-analytic review." DuBois, D.L., Holloway, B.E., Valentine, J.C. & Cooper, H. (2000).  American Journal of Community Psychology, 30,157-197.
• Families, Schools, Communities: Learning Together School Volunteer Guide. C. Potter, J. Grinde, & R.A. Landsverk (2000). Madison, WI: Wisconsin State. Department of Public Instruction, Families in Education Program.
• "Intergenerational Mentoring: Senior Volunteers in Schools." K. Stetzner (2001). School Administrator, 58, 52.
• Recruiting and using volunteers in meaningful ways in secondary schools. M. Burke (2001). NASSP Bulletin, 85, 46-52.
• School, Family, and Community partnerships: Your Handbook for action (2nd ed.). J.L. Epstein, M.G. Sanders, B.S. Simon, K.C. Salinas, N.R. Rodriguez, & F.L. Van Voorhis (2002). Toward Predicting Successful Youth Mentoring Relationships: A Preliminary Screening Questionnaire. Roffman, J, Reddy, R. & Rhodes, J. (2000).
• "Using Economic Theory and Research to Better Understand Volunteer Behavior" Govekar, P.L. & Goverkar, M.A. (2002).  Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 13(1):33-48.
• The Volunteer Management Handbook: Leadership Strategies for Success. By Connors, T. D. (2011). Wiley.