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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources.

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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. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges. First published on Ozy.com. Now should be no different.

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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

According to data from AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, the formal volunteering rate dropped seven percentage points – from 30% in 2019 to 23% in 2021, the steepest drop since the agency began collecting such data in 2002. Census Bureau and the U.S.

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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

What: Nonprofit marketing, fundraising, and leadership conference. Who attends: Anyone in the nonprofit or social enterprise space looking to learn more about fundraising and technology best practices, Classy platform features, leadership lessons, and insights on how to grow your organization. . Cause Camp. When : Sept 14-15, 2023.

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Guest Post: Why it’s worth allowing volunteers to lead (even when it’s uncomfortable)

Twenty Hats

Our volunteer pool consists primarily of older adults and through them I have grown to realize why I continue to remain in the field of volunteer management: there is great joy in helping a volunteer discover – or rediscover – purpose through acts of service. Volunteer leadership has brought welcome changes to our programs.

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How Effective Branding Helps Achieve Nonprofit Mission

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Tomasa Ravines Burga Fall 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Goodwill, AmeriCorps and Girl Scouts are good examples in the nonprofit sector. LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS. The leadership style recommended is collaboration, which includes a wide participation from the members.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Emily Santeler Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. For example, leaders might survey who makes up a board of directors or determine if there are groups that would benefit from an organization’s services that currently are not. Illustration generated by DALL·E.