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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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Public Allies Arizona: Getting Things Done for America

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Annie Bello Graduate Public Allies Arizona I quickly realized that Public Allies was no cop out when we were sworn in as AmeriCorps members. I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done. I will carry this commitment with me this year and beyond I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done.

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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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Comfort vs. Action: The Internal Debate

ASU Lodestar Center

AmeriCorps Coordinator. Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" by Michael Soto. Tan , University Service Learning /. ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Am I too comfortable?

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Stipends in volunteer service: Inclusion, retention, and volunteer benefits, Public Administration Review, 71:6, 850-858. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools.

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Nonprofit leadership has gone by the wayside — How to create a future of strong, capable leaders

ASU Lodestar Center

Join ASU Lodestar Center's Public Allies Arizona program. Click here to read "How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" — a post from young leader Michael Soto about his experiences with ASU Lodestar's Public Allies Arizona program. Want to help mold talented, young leaders? Click here to learn more. Words to live by.

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Public Allies: A Story of Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Taylor Polen Class 11 and class 12 Public Ally. I graduated from high school in 2016 and had little notion of what I wanted to do with my life until I joined Public Allies. My first term with Public Allies and the Alzheimer's Association began as an outreach specialist in December 2016.

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