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Book Review: Cause for Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While there are fantastic platforms for nonprofits to recruit volunteers, they have make the experience an engaging one for this generation in order to transform them into champions and supporters. The book offers some advice: Provide experiences based on skills. Focus on the 3 R’s (Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition).

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The Neuroscience of Purpose: Recharging in the Nonprofit World

ASU Lodestar Center

This is sound advice, but the question is “How?” The best advice I got was from another social entrepreneur: take a “Brain Break.” How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" by Michael Soto. Yet in the face of these challenges, we have to stay optimistic, keep our moral compass, and keep making good decisions.

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Nonprofit leadership has gone by the wayside — How to create a future of strong, capable leaders

ASU Lodestar Center

Click here to read "How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" — a post from young leader Michael Soto about his experiences with ASU Lodestar's Public Allies Arizona program. I asked my father, and he replied, "You will know you are a great leader when you have given leadership to everyone else.". Words to live by. Get another!

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Guest Post: Why it’s worth allowing volunteers to lead (even when it’s uncomfortable)

Twenty Hats

That was the advice I received 25 years ago from an experienced volunteer director. Krista Gilmore, CVA has worked for Cecil County (MD) Department of Community Services since November 2004 and currently oversees an AmeriCorps Seniors program. For CVA Krista Gilmore, the point of volunteer management is to cultivate volunteer leaders.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.

ASU Lodestar Center

How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. Click here to read "If you have to leave, why did you bother coming in the first place?" — where Laura Tan discusses the impact of volunteering with minors. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector.

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MEET AN ALLY: Samira Amin

ASU Lodestar Center

Public Allies Arizona ’s 13th class will graduate in June 28, the completion of a 10-month AmeriCorps program that places emerging young leaders at local nonprofits for full-time paid apprenticeships. What advice would you give to someone interested in participating in Public Allies? posted by Samira Amin Class 13 Public Ally.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

sgEngage

However, you actually began your career working in social good as a White House Fellow focused on the Corporation for National and Community Service and AmeriCorps Promise Fellows programs. Q: What is the best piece of advice you’ve received that has guided the way you lead?

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