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The voice and vision of the volunteer

ASU Lodestar Center

CEOs in the nonprofit sector are often considered visionaries who chart the voyage of the organization. When will nonprofits actually welcome volunteers as people who can also be a part of charting the voyage? Not being able to fully deliver these services can be attributed to the constraints on budget, staff and lack of resources.

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Nonprofit Start-Up Fever Hits the Valley, Sweeps the Nation

ASU Lodestar Center

You can see this reflected in the chart, with a low-point coming in the average for November and December 2012: 31 new Arizona charities. This fall I got a pretty good surprise from the spike in number of exemptions that the IRS okayed earlier this summer. That’s actually 41 in November and only 20 that December (2012).

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Diversity recruitment key to nonprofit boards achieving mission

ASU Lodestar Center

People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Joseph Garcia began work at Morrison Institute for Public Policy in April 2009 after a career in journalism that included experience as a top editor, columnist and news reporter at The Arizona Republic , The Daily Times , Tucson Citizen , USA Today and The Associated Press.