Implementation Guides

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Community Partnerships | Co-Curricular | Curricular | Advising | Vocation | BLP Start Up | Recruitment Guide | Bonner AmeriCorps | BWBRS | Campus Infrastructure Guide 

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These guides give you great information for planning and managing Bonner-related events, initiatives, relationships, and activities. We have organized the content according the main categories of work in the Bonner Program, as listed above.

 

Community Partnerships 

Eighty percent of students' work in the Bonner Program is doing service.  To do this well, This multi-faceted Implementation Guide contains a lot of helpful information related to managing community partnerships, including documents that you can provide Community Partners to orient them to the Bonner Program.  This information is organized into several headings, each of which contains helpful text, sample documents, and templates you can use:

Introducing Bonner to Community Partners

Establishing and Managing Partnerships

Engaging Partners as Co-Educators

Developing Placements on Multiple Levels

Using Site-Based Teams and Project Coordinators

Building Non-Profit Capacity

Supervising Placements

Administrative Management

Evaluation & Recognition

Other Resources

 

Co-Curricular (Student Development)

The backbone, along with service, of the Bonner Program. This area, co-curricular, represents the area where Program staff have the most impact on the shape of the learning experience of their Bonner Students. Through co-curricular structures such as Orientation, Retreats, Class Meetings, All-Bonner Meetings, structured reflection, and enrichment sessions, the program takes on an identity and purpose for its students. Co-Curricular programing supplements the Bonner Program's developmental goals through issue-oriented and educational programs and skill-building opportunities. Use this Implementation Guide as a starting point for developing your own co-curricular resources.

 

Curricular (Student Development)

A collection of resources gathered by the Bonner Foundation for connecting student service with your college's faculty and curriculum.

 

Advising (Student Development)

Advising is critical to the success of a student's Bonner Program experience. Through advising students gain a sense of connection with the Program, which works to support his or her commitment to Bonner for two to four years. Students will also gain a stronger sense of his or her values, talents, skills, and leadership style. This type of growth often happens in the context of one-on-one relationships with staff members, but other types of interaction should not be excluded. Advising happens in small groups in many places. Students may also serve as advisors to other students, especially veteran Bonner participants to their new Bonner peers.

 

Vocation (Student Development)

Bonner students begin both their Program experience and their college careers with exploration. These two to four (five) years represent a time to examine their community and discover their talents, skills, and 'mission'. By the end of the second year, most Scholars will have a major declared and will begin focussing on their career. The quest that they have embarked on is a quest of vocational discernment, a process that we hope their Bonner experience will influence.

 

BLP Start UP

A Bonner Leader Program Start-Up Guide is aimed at new campuses who want to to jump-start the planning process and create a new Bonner Program. We recommend that interested campuses review the Guide and then contact Christen Foell for more information.

Step 1: Evaluating the Fit: Determine the Bonner Program's fit with your particular campus. 

Step 2: Designing a Program: Developing a campus infrastructure, financial support, and community partnerships. 

Step 3: Creating a Student Development Plan: Establishing a concrete plan for developing Bonner students throughout their college career. 

Step 4: Connecting to the Network: Connecting to the larger Bonner Program Network, including the Bonner Foundation and the more than 65 other campuses across the nation. 

Step 5: Foundation Staff Visit: Maintain connection with the Bonner Foundation through regular communication including an invitation to you campus. 

Step 6: Tracking & Reporting

 

Recruitment Guide

Ideally, recruitment of Bonner Scholars is integrated into the regular admission process at Bonner schools so that the Bonner scholarship can be used as a recruitment tool. For a detailed discussion on how these two processes, Bonner recruitment and college admissions, can be coordinated, consult the Bonner Scholars Program Rules and the Bonner Director's Handbook. For Recruitment tips and Bonner Example Practices/Resources then consult this guide.

 

Bonner AmeriCorps

The Bonner AmeriCorps Education Award Initiative is an exciting way for campuses to further support their Bonner Scholars and Bonner Leaders participating in Programs around the country. The Bonner Network is the recipient of a grant from the Corporation for National Community Service that provides us with nearly 1,000 AmeriCorps Education Awards annually.

 

BWBRS

An online users guide for the Bonner Web-Based Reporting System. Currently this links to a webpage giving detailed instructions on BWBRS 2.0 use. This guide can also be accessed through BWBRS (check out the link in the top right of each BWBRS page). Be on the lookout for BWBRS 3.0, currently in the final stages of implementation.

 

Campus Infrastructure Guide

Collection of guides for developing a Campus Infrastructure to support the Bonner Program and its goals.

 

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