ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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National Service Americorp New York City 52

Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

For three days in New York City we experimented with new types of social media integration with Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS for short, which runs the AmeriCorps programs) and the Points of Light Foundation 's National Conference on Volunteerism and Service.

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Learning New York City Second Life Americorp 57

Whole Whale

JUNE 19, 2024

The first ‘modern’ nonprofit is considered to be The Peabody Education Fund, founded in 1867 with the purpose of integrating poor white and formerly enslaved people in the south. Creation of Americorps in 1993 under Clinton administration with the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 30, 2011

Shelinas question highlights an important part of the service dynamic and embodies one of the core values of the Public Allies program I help manage at the ASU Lodestar Center: having integrity about the work that we come into communities to do. This is such a great perspective. As Travis mentioned, mission trips can certainly have this feel.

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Student Alternative Arizona Americorp 40