Translating Knowledge into Action

ARC's program design and development services are informed by decades of experience and leadership in youth development programming. We can help you create a new program, cultivate best practices in an existing one, or apply lessons from an evaluation. We also can help you solve problems related to processes and infrastructure, improve your fundraising, and enhance your public relations. We make best practices practical.

How can we help you?

We support every aspect of design and development in successful mentoring programs:

Recruiting

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Designing Effective Programs

Ideas are exciting, but they are not useful if they are not practical. ARC draws on decades of experiences in youth development to design programming to take great ideas and make them viable. This is what ARC was founded to do: translate research and theory on realistic best practices.

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Expanding Services

To make quality services widely accessible, programs must create convenient and practical ways for youth and volunteers to engage. ARC can help you engage youth and adults and provide pathways into manageable commitments that can engage participants who might not otherwise get involved. We can also help you assess your resources and design programming to make the most of them.

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Staffing an Office & Enhancing Efficiency

Hiring and retaining capable staff is a major challenge to any program. ARC understands how to identify and attract strong candidates, how to make the most of administrative volunteers, and how to structure an office to enhance efficiency. We can provide tools and insight to help you mitigate staff turnover, keep operating costs low, and boost morale.  We can also develop match tracking software to streamline and automate administrative tasks.

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Conducting Public Relations & Special Events

Youth development programs can benefit immeasurably from the goodwill of the community, and ARC can help you develop the outreach to tap it. We can show you how to recruit local businesses to and develop relationships with local media that not only advertise your program but give potential business partners further reason to become involved. And we can help you organize special events that will raise your program's public profile.

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Fundraising

Fundraising is both the bane and the lifeblood of your program, a difficult and ongoing task that must be done well for the program to thrive. ARC can help you do it more efficiently, allowing you to reduce the burden on your staff and focus resources where they should be--on youth. We will help you conduct effective fundraising events, attract individual donors, and apply for large and small grants.  We will help you finance and focus on making strong matches that last.

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