Better, Bolder Peace Corps Survey Underway

In the past few days In less than 24 hours, more than 3,400 1,500 members of the Peace Corps community have already responded to our survey on how to best improve and embolden the Peace Corps to meet the challenges of the 21st century.  If you have not yet taken the survey, you have until Thursday, October 22nd to do so. 

>>Take the Survey Today:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bHFBlSzPNqwfvs5AlGn84w_3d_3d

A couple of things to keep in mind:

• This survey asks you to prioritize and make some tough choices: There are lots of ideas on how to advance the Peace Corps.  All are worthy of consideration but do some resonate more than others within the community.  Given that many ideas require added resources, decision makers are often faced with tough choices on what programs or policies to implement.  Because of this, we are requiring individuals to rank items in order of priority.  As you take the survey you will find for each category that you can only give one item a rank of "1", one item a rank of "2", etc.
• Give yourself time: Expect to take 10-20 minutes to complete the survey.  Determine a block of time that will allow you to consider the various categories and issues, then have at it.
• Only one survey per computer: One way the survey attempts to ensure one response per individual is by allowing only one response per computer.  If this presents a problem (for example, if you have access to only one computer and have four RPCVs in your family) contact us at the information below.
• Forwarding this survey: We encourage you to forward information about the survey to others in the Peace Corps community.  For several different reasons, the link to the survey may not work in forwarded email messages.  In such a case, tell the recipients to simply copy the URL and paste it into your browser.  Then, it should work fine.

Questions?:  Contact us at advocacy@peacecorpsconnect.org

Comments

[Doug Corb]

Take great care in screening and placing volunteers. Poor matching of volunteers assignments and locations greatly increases the early termination rate. Example: A vegetarian placed in a remote fishing village where available foods would not support her diet. Recruit for the task at hand, not find a task for a recruit. That said, I loved my time in the Peace Corps.