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Want to stay healthier and fulfilled later in life? Try volunteering

Fast Company Tech

170 billion each year, according to AmeriCorps, the federal agency focused on national and community service. AmeriCorps Seniors, which focuses on engaging volunteers ages 55 and older, runs programs that offer major benefits to their communities. The total value of the hours of unpaid work volunteers put in totals an estimated U.S.$170

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. My first day on the job was to familiarize myself with the organization by learning about their history and development. I looked to many of my nonprofit leadership and management classes at ASU for insight. how to start a nonprofit Dick Erwin AmeriCorps'

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

Twenty Hats

A natural history museum’s volunteer supervisor described creating materials for kids that were learning from home: “Our education department rallied and created all these STEAM videos and ended up creating online curriculum to help parents who are homeschooling. And these were really unique ways to engage our volunteers.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Do you feel the force.

ASU Lodestar Center

Heres what we know: Many in nonprofit leadership positions have been hanging on by cutting more than they even thought possible. In the history of the United States, three large-scale cultural shifts have fundamentally altered who we are and how we care for each other. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. Second , national policy must incentivize and prioritize the recruitment and deployment of local, proximate leadership. First published on Ozy.com.