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A Helpful (Unofficial) Digital Training Guide for New AmeriCorps Members

Whole Whale

Just to be clear from the beginning of this guide, Whole Whale is not directly affiliated or funded by AmeriCorps (though there are alumni on our staff), but we ARE huge fans of the program. Are emails being sent? Focus on the types of work that will build the list of emails/followers the nonprofit has earlier in the year.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

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. A few months ago, I was shopping at the local grocery market, wearing my AmeriCorps sweatshirt.

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6 Strategies to Involve Young People in Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Put another way, if you read your mission statement or donor emails out loud and there’s a bunch of words that make it sound important but somehow don’t say much at all, you’ve got a jargon problem. According to AmeriCorps , “Volunteering was associated with 27% higher odds of employment.” As you can see, they’re all industry-speak.

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December 2010 Community Builder’s Chat Wrap-up #CommBuild

Amy Sample Ward

Laura Norvig shared the guidelines used for their email listserv: E-mail discussion lists hosted by the Resource Center are not moderated. We heard from many people that there were too many holiday deadlines at work to make the chat so be sure to add your thoughts to the comments here after reading the archive to join in!

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

My job was to keep everything up and running: the network, file servers, computers, printers, email systems, etc. I announced the decision to make the migration at the all staff meeting -- we have 8 FTE, 6 - 8 PTE and 3 Vista/AmeriCorps members -- and presented the plan and timeline for the project.

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7 ways to increase volunteer engagement

Nimble AMS

According to AmeriCorps, Americans volunteered an average of 7.8 AmeriCorps estimates the industry of volunteerism to be worth $184 billion. . Before you create your survey and send it through email or your association management software (AMS), consider how you’ll get volunteers to participate. billion hours. Build hype.

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Upcoming Webinar November 7: Leverage Data for Mission-Driven Orgs

Tech Soup

from web traffic, email newsletters, donors, volunteers, and other. spreadsheets, Googe Docs, email services, online channels, and more? City Year , the nonprofit national service organization behind "Give a Year, Change the World," and program of AmeriCorps, recently received donations of SAP. of data they gather.

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