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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

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Disclaimer Wednesday, March 16, 2011 How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man posted by Michael Soto , 2nd Year Fellow – Public Allies Arizona / Arizona Citizens for the Arts Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to serve my country. And I thank Americorps for being the answer to my lifelong wish of serving my country.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

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Create interesting volunteer opportunities. Millennials are drawn to volunteer opportunities that impact the lives of others and support causes they care about , Sheela Nimishakavi states. An AmeriCorps alum and recent inductee of the Nu Lambda Mu International Honor Society , Ms. A lifelong resident of Wisconsin, Ms.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit

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Disclaimer Monday, May 9, 2011 Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit posted by Brittany Fasnacht , Office Assistant ASU Lodestar Center Todays youth generation has been stereotyped as the "me" generation — as obsessed with technology, social media, and constantly checking Facebook news feeds. check out this video.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "The Art of Data.

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Disclaimer Friday, March 4, 2011 Research Friday: "The Art of Data Interpretation" posted by Robert F. Whether practitioners, volunteers, or donors, we want our end-users to understand issues in ways that help them become more efficient and effective within their nonprofit organizations and across their networks of nonprofits.

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'I Truly Believe That Education is the Antidote for Ignorance, Poverty and War'

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Before becoming a Public Ally, I somewhat understood the nonprofit sector, since the year before I had served as a City Year Corps Member in Chicago through AmeriCorps. I was also responsible for securing, for the provider track, state-of-the-art medical topic speakers, for healthcare professionals.

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Who's Behind That Voice on the Phone: Meet TechSoup Client Services

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He is a great fan of arts charities. Gina Frassetto is one of a number of people at TechSoup who have come to us from AmeriCorps or the Peace Corp. As an AmeriCorps volunteer, she ran environmental stewardship programs for schoolchildren at Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire. Gina is all about service.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.

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This information, and more, can be found in the Arizona Nonprofits: Scope of the Sector in Brief and the Arizona Giving and Volunteering reports. Turns out I know more than I thought (thanks to the fact that I helped edit the Giving and Volunteering Report. Research Friday: "Really, How Many People Volunte. I got an 8!