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Get on the HOPE website and introduce yourself to us.
Inform the HOPE
Team of your intention to establish a HOPE Service Chapter at your college by
clicking the “colleges” link under the “enroll today” menu option at
www.hopevolunteers.org. All secure information you provide through those
forms allows our Team knowledge of your intent to bring HOPE to your college
and is beneficial as we will be able to assist you in finding an appropriate special
needs school if needed. Also, the HOPE Team wants to know how to contact you
as we will be helping you during the development of your HOPE Service Chapter. |
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Email us to get a valuable HOPE manual.
After you fill out the required forms
(above), please email development@hopevolunteers.org with your name and
college. HOPE staff will then email you a very vital document entitled “HOPE
Service Chapter Leaders’ Manual”. In addition to documenting the mission,
goals, and history of HOPE, this Manual will assist you and other students to
work to charter and successfully lead your college’s HOPE Service Chapter. |
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Talk with your college’s student development office.
Notify your student
development office (or equivalent office that deals with chartering new student
organizations at your college) about HOPE. Make sure they know that you are
very excited to establish a HOPE Service Chapter at your college. Provide them
with the HOPE website address and share the Manual with them. Get them
pumped about this great opportunity that you want to bring to your college! |
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Excite your friends and other students at your college.
Develop and cultivate interest from students at your college who will join your HOPE Service Chapter.
The Manual details ways to go about doing this in addition to other pertinent
tasks, like fundraising and leadership, that help HOPE Service Chapters thrive. |
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Develop a constitution and work to get chartered.
Work with your student development office to develop your HOPE Service Chapter’s constitution
(formatting help is in the Manual) and work to get HOPE chartered at your college. |
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Partner with a special needs school.
Develop a partnership with a local special
needs school as close as possible to your college. Information about making a
partnership is found in the Manual. This school will serve as the school that your
HOPE Service Chapter supports through your Hopesters and special events. |
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Update us at HOPE about your chapter.
Constantly communicate your
progress in establishing your HOPE Service Chapter with the HOPE Team; let us
know what’s going on, what stage you’re at, how many members you have, etc.
Please email these updates to development@hopevolunteers.org. |
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