The Savings Bonds Program relies on the support of thousands of volunteers in communities, business and government throughout the country to inform the American public about the importance of saving and about U.S. Savings Bonds. Executive volunteers serve as members of the U.S. Savings Bonds Volunteer Committee and Area Campaign Chairs, organized according to their community or geographic affiliations. In addition, many community leaders serve in other capacities, and thousands of people serve as volunteer canvassers for payroll campaigns where they work. The volunteer page contains pictures of each volunteer and may take longer to download.

The Savings Bonds Program would not be able to accomplish its goals and purposes each year without your support and assistance. We value your assistance greatly and thank you for it.

This page provides information and tools to support you in your volunteer service, especially those of you who are leading campaigns. We welcome your ideas about how to make it serve you better - just drop us a line at [email protected].

If you've taken on responsibility for leading a savings bonds campaign, bookmark this page! It will always have the latest materials and advice on how to promote savings bonds successfully. See also our page of materiales en español - materials in Spanish.

• Payroll Savings Tools. If you have a leadership role in promoting payroll savings - for example, as a campaign coordinator, employee newsletter editor, intranet webmaster or employee benefits administrator - our payroll savings promotional tools and resources page has advice and materials. See also the general items below.

• General Promotional Tools. If you work for a bank and want to give your customers up-to-date information, or you are publicizing savings bonds to members of an organization or through a community event, take a look at the brochure U.S. Savings Bonds - "You Don't Have to Risk Everything Just to Get What You Want" (PDF file, 133K, uploaded 11/17/00), available free in quantity from your local savings bonds representative or [email protected].

  Be sure to tell people about the Savings Bond Wizard software and the online Savings Bonds Calculator to keep track of their bonds, or the Personal Record of Ownership for those who prefer to keep track of their bonds on paper.

• Presentation Tools. Speakers and meeting planners, use or adapt our Powerpoint Slides for General Audiences (289K, uploaded 1/28/02) and Powerpoint Slides on the I Bond (279K, uploaded 1/28/02).

• Graphics. Brighten up any page, whether in a publication or a story or link on a website. See our clip art page for colorful graphics images.

• Patriotic Service Awards. Show your appreciation to those who have worked on the campaign by presenting them with either a color (PDF format, 555K, uploaded 5/29/02) or black and white (PDF format, 222K, uploaded 5/29/02) version of the Patriotic service award. Both of these PDF files can be downloaded and filled in using Adobe Acrobat reader, version 4.0 or above, which is available for free on Adobe's website. Click on the Treasury picture on the award, and then type up to six lines of text, with a return after each line, then print out the award.