Remove Arizona Remove National Remove Teach
article thumbnail

ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? but I got a good test drive because 23 students in my graduate seminar (Theory and Practice of Philanthropy) here at Arizona State University have been invited inside this spring semester to both learn about and hone the evaluation process. Its an exciting time.

Teach 90
article thumbnail

Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

Coordinator & Volunteer Coordinator, ADL Arizona and GLSEN Phoenix. When I think back on my time with ASU Lodestar Center's Public Allies Arizona program, many different memories and candid moments pop into my mind. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Crafting a Successful Third Generation.

ASU Lodestar Center

Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. at the National Bank of Arizona in Phoenix. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

article thumbnail

ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

The list includes 4,025 with an Arizona address, including two-thirds (2,708) with the coveted charitable exemption. Arizona doesnt have 15,000 federally-recognized charities — it now has closer to 12,000. The fourth one is The Nations Missing Children, in Phoenix. This is great news. Most of them are very small.

article thumbnail

Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

Arizona Community Foundation. Their educational focus areas include new designs to advance learning, pathways to postsecondary success, leadership and teaching to advance learning, public understanding, and integration, learning, and innovation. Arizona Community Foundation. Areas served: Arizona (limited US).

Education 111
article thumbnail

Research Friday: Don't Be Afraid to Ask

ASU Lodestar Center

In the Arizona Giving and Volunteering Report , we at the Center report the differences in the rate of volunteering across race, gender, educational attainment, and income. Some of her past research projects include the Nonprofit Compensation & Benefits Report and Arizona Giving & Volunteering publications.

article thumbnail

Research Friday: The Functions of Government in Social Entrepreneurship

ASU Lodestar Center

In response to the Great Depression in the 1930s, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration enacted the nation’s first-ever social policy with the programs of the Social Security Act. In more developed nations with high levels of state capacity like the U.S., Johnson’s Great Society programs of the 1960s. Shockley, Ph.D.,