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AmeriCorps Announces 2023 Volunteer Generation Fund Grants Competition

NonProfit PRO

The 2023 grant competition will fund programs that address the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on students. The Volunteer Generation Fund focuses on investments in volunteer management practices that increase both volunteer recruitment and retention.

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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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$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. million to help pay for college or to pay back student loans.

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6 Strategies to Involve Young People in Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Think long term Students may be short on funds, but they’re long on passion and energy, and we all know a personal referral carries more weight than a cold call. While this new group might not be a source of large donations, students have loads of passion, creativity, and energy.

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Proven strategies for engaging and retaining volunteers

Candid

Census Bureau and AmeriCorps, between September 2020 and September 2021 formal volunteerism across the United States fell to its lowest rate in nearly three decades. Financial factors can include the higher cost of education and growing student debt, stagnant wages, the rising cost of living, and volatile inflation rates.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. Professor and Director. of Academic Programs. ASU Lodestar Center.

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Finding Pride in American Service

ASU Lodestar Center

I watched the marching students below and mulled over that awesome responsibility, and, oddly enough, felt the dawning of a supremely foreign thought. Not every country exports volunteers in the way our country does — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Cross Cultural Solutions, Atlas Corps, Global Leadership Adventures.

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