Share the Experience
Share the Experience is what we want you to do to increase citizen understanding of, and participation in, international development. Though Americans are generous, particularly at times of overseas crises, our nation’s share of overseas direct assistance has shrunk steadily in recent decades. If you believe your work as a volunteer was valuable, please help build a constituency that favors ACDI/VOCA’s type of interventions abroad.
ACDI/VOCA's Share the Experience guide provides resources to help you tell your story, including sample speeches and press releases, development facts, FAQs, and media and presentation tips.
Table of Contents
Why Share Your Volunteer Experience?
Why Global Development Matters for the U.S.—Center for Global Development
A Primer on Foreign Aid - Working Paper 92—Center for Global Development
Public Attitudes on Foreign Assistance
ACDI/VOCA in the Post-9/11 Environment
Tough Questions and Possible Answers
How to Do Congressional Visits
Post-Assignment Volunteer Activity Report
Read our new USAID Farmer-to-Farmer volunteer blog
ACDI/VOCA has launched a blog called “A Day in the Life of USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteers,” where volunteers under this program can share their impressions and photos from overseas trips. Click here to read entries.
