Idealist.org Term of Service Program

Welcome to the homepage of the Idealist.org Term of Service Program! As we prepare a new resource center about the term-of-service experience, this page serves as a central location for the variety of resources Idealist.org already offers to people interested in this form of public service.

Service Corps to Social Impact Career: A free book!

Service Corps to Social Impact Career – A Companion to The Idealist Guides to Nonprofit Careers is for prospective, current, and former participants of a wide range of service corps who want to use their service experience as a building block to their next steps. Written by Amy Potthast of Idealist.org, the book's sections are available as free PDFs.

You can download this free book here.

Term-of-Service Resources Elsewhere on Idealist

Idealist maintains a number of term-of-service resources in other areas of our site.

• View our list of term-of-service programs
• View our list of service corps alumni resources
• "Comparison of Six National Service Corps That Work in Schools" A handy chart (PDF)
• Chapter Five of The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers discusses the career advantages of undertaking a term-of-service program. There are two versions of the Guide and this chapter—one for first-time job seekers and one for mid-career professionals and sector switchers.
• Read this article about special considerations for term-of-service alums who are thinking about graduate school, from Idealist's Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center
• Join a discussion about all things term-of-service in our dedicated forum

Idealist Careers Podcast

Idealist's Careers Podcast provides free, practical professional development advice to people in the nonprofit world. It features interviews with nonprofit professionals, many of whom have term-of-service experience.

You can listen or subscribe to the podcast here.

The New Service

Idealist.org and the Northwest Regional Education Laboratory have teamed up to create this blog for people seeking careers or pursuing education in the nonprofit sector. The New Service is particularly of interest to current or former participants in term-of-service programs such as AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, and so on.

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