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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Emily Santeler is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. A lifelong resident of Wisconsin, Ms.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. The first big piece was a survey of volunteer administrators. More specifically, we surveyed individuals in the U.S. You can read the new brief , an overview of the survey results, right now. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Generosity Commission: Giving, Volunteering And Civil Society Complexities

The NonProfit Times

The rate of volunteerism, as measured by the Current Population Survey of the U.S. 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.

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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2014, the Center for Effective Philanthropy conducted a survey of 235 nonprofit leaders to identify the main practices used by nonprofit organizations to engage clients (Buteau, Gopal, & Buchanan, 2014). Among those surveyed, almost all of the nonprofit leaders indicated their organizations gathered client feedback (Buteau et al.,

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: The Board Chair and the.

ASU Lodestar Center

ASU is a research university that puts significant effort into true academic research. However, there are times when simple surveys produce very meaningful information — and can provide the basis for deeper research projects. And it is a simple (and small) survey upon which this blog is based. The answer? Central Ave.

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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. The national survey of nonprofit organizations provided our first benchmark insights into the nation’s readiness to handle an onslaught of new volunteers. Note: The 2019 Volunteer Management Capacity Study was funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S.

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

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. We started with a survey this past winter: those results are summarized in this report.