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$370 Million In AmeriCorps Grants Available

The NonProfit Times

AmeriCorps, the national service program that annually matches volunteers with community needs across the country, will award grants totaling more than $370 million to nonprofit and faith-based organizations spanning the public and private sectors for the upcoming fiscal year. 30, said AmeriCorps spokesperson Lucero Gamez.

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6 Strategies to Involve Young People in Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Or worse, half-believing that younger generations aren’t interested in contributing time or resources as much as their parents or grandparents have. Recent research, as highlighted by the Nonprofit Times , supports this. Making time for another thing is challenging, as is giving money they don’t have.

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Four Strategies for Effective Nonprofit Volunteer Engagement and Programs

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” – Margaret Mead Working with volunteers and including them in your nonprofit’s strategy can be meaningful, challenging, and rewarding, all at the same time.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

Students gravitated to online classes. As nonprofits limited worker contact, many shuttered or adjusted programs and asked their volunteers to stay away. The COVID-19 pandemic heralded the boom of Zoom, when people who had never been in a video conference before were suddenly in them all the time. Restaurants shut down.

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

Twenty Hats

They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”. When we’re in person, some of those clients weren’t able to access our programs because there was no transportation.

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Q&A with Maggie Saucedo, a Public Ally and Certified Nonprofit Professional

ASU Lodestar Center

The PAAZ team reached out to someone who can speak about both: Class 13 Public Ally Magdelena “Maggie” Saucedo, who joined the program after graduating from ASU with a bachelor’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management and earning the Certified Nonprofit Professional credential from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. The responses were clear: climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time, and it should be an urgent priority for us all to act. Why Climate Justice? Priscilla Chomba Kinywa.

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