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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. and Canada. how to start a nonprofit Dick Erwin AmeriCorps' I recently completed a nonprofit internship, and it was a very difficult and challenging experience. My internship took place at Fairbanks Youth Advocates in Fairbanks, Alaska. Like this article?

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 and the uncertainty of how to react spread across the United States and Canada, people holed up in their houses and apartments. and Canada who had an active Certification in Volunteer Administration (CVA). Note: The Technology Evolution in Volunteer Administration Study is funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

We asked volunteer managers across the US and Canada how they used technology to engage volunteers during the pandemic. She returned to the United States in 2017 to serve as the to serve as the AmeriCorps VISTA Leader for the Arizona Refugee Resettlement Refugee Women’s Empowerment Coordinator at Lutheran Social Services of the Southwest.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

and Canada about their technology use. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada.