Financial Aid & Recruitment

Who and How to Recruit Your Bonners

What We’ll Cover

• Bonner Leader Financial Aid

• Bonner AmeriCorps

• Who to Recruit

• How to Recruit

• Replacing a Bonner

Bonner Leader Financial Aid

Four year, 10 hour/week commitment

Federal or College Work-Study Stipend Required

Some schools include service scholarship

No summer stipend funding required

Bonner AmeriCorps Option

All Bonners eligible to enroll in AmeriCorps Education Award Program

300 hour/1 yr - $1,175

450 hour/1 yr - $1,468

Bonner AmeriCorps

Eligible Placements

After School Programs

Capacity Building ✓Volunteer Management ✓Program Development ✓Fundraising ✓Communication ✓Research

Who to Recruit

Bonner Leader

>= 5 size per class with minimum of 20 total

> 65% Federal Work Study eligible

> 60/40 gender balance

> diversity of school

How to RecruitFour year commitment

Build into school recruitment &and admissions process as yield tool - liaison

Engage current Bonners in process

Application process

On-campus interviews if possible

Example:::s-Rhodes, Lindsey Wilson

Replacing a Bonner

Should have application process

Draw from pool of students already active in service

Do not need to involve students (but can

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