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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

A couple of weeks ago, I stepped into my first marketing class excited to learn and meet some new people in my still-smells-like-new home base in New Jersey. She got pulled into #nptech as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Teaming for Technology 12 years ago, and has been asking "So what?" Next time, say it with feeling.

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Finding Pride in American Service

ASU Lodestar Center

I watched the marching students below and mulled over that awesome responsibility, and, oddly enough, felt the dawning of a supremely foreign thought. Not every country exports volunteers in the way our country does — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Cross Cultural Solutions, Atlas Corps, Global Leadership Adventures.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: "If you have to leave, why did you.

ASU Lodestar Center

ASB is a great opportunity for college students who choose to spend their spring breaks volunteering in communities across the country. Since 2006, nearly 2,000 students have participated in ASB, volunteering over 64,000 hours of service. I live in New Jersey, and I have to go back," replied Shelina. countered Zee. "I

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