ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Providing formal training to staff and volunteers has obvious benefits for an organization, individual staff members and volunteers. For the organization, it is a means of ensuring staff and volunteers are knowledgeable, making them exceptional ambassadors for the organization in and outside of work.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

At Socialbrite, we’d like to call on our readers to support students in public school classrooms in low-income areas. Meantime, if you’re not familiar with DonorsChoose, the idea is a simple one: It’s a site where public school teachers could post what materials they were lacking in the classroom. The cool part?

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Social Media Interview Challenge Media 120

Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Last year, funds from TweetsGiving helped build a classroom in Tanzania. Together with our fabulous volunteers Melissa & AJ Leon of theLacProject , we taught the students and teachers about computers and social media. Why TweetsGiving? This year, the Epic Change team are working on building a technology lab there.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 9, 2013

Volunteers can choose the projects, causes, and organizations they help, and organizations can potentially get help from numerous volunteers. Sparked is a project-based microvolunteering site, where nonprofit organizations “challenge” the Sparked community, and the volunteers then respond. How does it work? Get involved.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

While volunteering with KIPP schools in the Bay Area, Wertman found that many of the tools schools were relying on were barebones, and the data raw. Schoolytics gleans most of its data from a learning management system that many teachers are already using: Google Classroom. This week the company is announcing that it raised $2.8

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 24, 2013

In a classroom decked out with green, blue and orange balloons sat 13 young adults and a sea of their family and friends. ITWorks students graduate December 2013. Over the past 16 weeks, they’ve been fully immersed in the IT world and today they graduate.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2021

The university now uses the collaboration tool to host classroom discussions, develop new courses, and support students — both on campus and online. Nonprofits are using Slack to increase collaboration and drive engagement among staff, volunteers, and other key stakeholders. In the 2020 U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We are a very heartful organization and a lot of what we do is thanks to an incredible group of volunteers. Find out more in the interview below!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. We are a very heartful organization and a lot of what we do is thanks to an incredible group of volunteers. Find out more in the interview below!

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Interview Change Tanzania Africa 108

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

posted by Kathy Renfro Graduate Student ASU Master of Nonprofit Management and Leadership program Nonprofit assignments can place volunteers in precarious positions of potential, personal liability. Prior to the 1940s, the Charitable Immunity Doctrine shielded nonprofits from tort liability, but did not protect volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Founded in 2008, the original TweetsGiving celebration was implemented by a small group of volunteers and it generated thousands of grateful tweets from around the globe. As the event has evolved, TweetsGiving is not about Twitter.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. Talking with Volunteer Administrators.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

Steve and 3 self-funded volunteers (found for free via Google Grants!) It could be teacher training, classrooms, a feeding programme, sanitation and clean water, books, school fees or teacher’s accommodation. Steve Heyes, a colleague and founder of LearnAsOne , has just embarked on a great journey to Zambia and you’re invited!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2009

The following account comes from Pavi Mehta, Bookshare's Volunteer Coordinator, and I wanted to post it! We just hosted Indian publishing legend Mahendra Meghani , who dropped in last week when many of our team were traveling. It was a quietly special visit.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Operating in over 50 regions across the country, TFA finds, develops, and supports a diverse network of leaders who expand opportunity for children across classrooms, schools, and any sector or field that shapes the broader systems in which schools operate. Creating a Constituent-First Marketing Strategy. Written by Blake Becker.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 4, 2011

About eighteen months ago, I was standing outside a Thai classroom in the open courtyard of an elementary school in Bangkok, watching from a second-story perch as Thai children "marched" in the center recreation area. Perched outside that classroom, I suddenly felt an overpowering sense of pride to have been born a U.S. on their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

It’s up to us to address their fundamental right to privacy by reconciling their concerns and being clear and concise when it comes to asking for information from donors, volunteers, board members and friends. It’s easy to post an off-the-cuff, friendly Facebook post about a donor or volunteer, but make sure it’s kosher with them first.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

In light of that trend and all the recent travel upheaval due to COVID – 19, with increasing restrictions being placed on companies and their global workforce, we wanted to address creative alternatives to traditional volunteer events. . Skills-Based Volunteering.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

This particular bench resides in a classroom in a small school in Moshi. Parents would often appear near the door of this classroom. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. NGO, staffed entirely with fantastic Moshi residents and supplied with Western volunteers who did only the work asked of them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Nonprofit assignments can place volunteers in precarious positions of potential, personal liability. Prior to the 1940s, the Charitable Immunity Doctrine shielded nonprofits from tort liability, but did not protect volunteers. In this example, a volunteer is assigned to provide tutoring to grade school students on campus.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2011

This one's about Amber Slaven, a librarian who got her start at Bellevue Library with a pretty great gig: driving a Winnebago outfitted as a mobile computer classroom. She also managed up to 100 volunteers at a time to help teach classes in her library system and offered some tips on ensuring a smooth volunteer experience.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Volunteering for other organizations. Being a class Mom for your child’s classroom. If you’re working toward fully funding your nonprofit, you need to say No to things like: Serving on committees or Boards outside of your nonprofit. Serving on non-fundraising committees. Running extensive errands during the day.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2023

It was the United States Peace Corps’ mission of world peace and friendship and its intention to promote mutual understanding between Americans and foreign peoples that drew me to apply as a volunteer for the agency.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region. Bricker says that there is also another benefit, perhaps an unplanned one, to having teen volunteers. However, if the volunteer is under 18, that is not necessary, as long as a librarian is in the room at all times. From Proposal to Success.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Windows MultiPoint Server is a fairly new product and was originally intended for use in school classrooms. It's a new operating system that allows multiple users to simultaneously share one computer, with each user running an independent Windows 7–like desktop environment. Here's the official Windows MultiPoint Server website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Anything people might want to learn, from hands-on activities such as painting to more classroom-type settings such as Spanish lessons. For added suspense, you may send out a mystery box with a variety of beverages to sample. 5) Online classes. Virtual education is a great tool and can be used to teach a wide range of skills. 23) Bingo.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Faculty engaged her both inside and outside the classroom by providing feedback on assignments, encouraging her to step outside her comfort zone to acquire new skills, recommending extracurricular activities, and checking in on the progress she’s making towards her goals.

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Achieve

AUGUST 25, 2022

Volunteers. For example, you can deliver more relevant volunteer training sessions or distinguish between engaging with newer vs. older employees. corporate giving programs can include everything from matching gift and volunteer grant programs to community grants, annual giving, and more. Let’s get started! Internal benefits.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Jay Bowman is a deacon in his church and leads a small volunteer tech support team called their technology ministry. Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab. In the school there are two PCs in each classroom, and the 12-station computer lab is used mostly for research.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 8, 2021

Show volunteers at work, impressive completed projects, and happy people or animals who have been served by your programs. Show the barren field that existed where your green outdoor classroom now lives, and demonstrate how this new green space has improved the community and the environment. “We build community gardens.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. Not in San Francisco?

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Qgiv

AUGUST 8, 2022

From tissue boxes and hand sanitizer to markers and notebook paper, every classroom needs resources to support their students and that’s where you can help. Volunteer at your local school. Even before the school year begins, many schools need volunteers to help run their back-to-school events and help students get acclimated.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Oh, and don’t miss out on the opportunities to learn and network at volunteering and software development conferences. The National Conference on Volunteering and Service is currently accepting session proposals for their 2012 conference. Check out their top 15 resources for finding or creating the finances needed in the classroom !

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

HandsOn created a page on their site to showcase the livestreamed panel discussion on volunteering and leadership, and encouraged online participation through its live Twitter stream and Facebook stream on the website page. Implementation: Custom mash-up of site specific volunteer activity with geo data to map via Google Maps.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

They managed to pump out reports and research, organize webinars and conferences, and even play around with the definition of volunteering. Speaking of volunteers, Wild Apricot ''s post, The Mission Driven Volunteer, discusses a new definition and new models of volunteering. Not in San Francisco?

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Research San Francisco Homeless Contest 61

Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Sometimes it’s a matter of zeroing in on a single aspect of your organization’s work or an unexpected story, such as two volunteers falling in love while serving soup side-by-side in the homeless shelter’s kitchen. Brainstorm story angles with your Board, staff, and volunteers. See what types of stories they cover.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Last year, TweetsGiving , raised $11,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania using Twitter to spread messages of thanks and opportunities to donate. Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water in 24 hours through self-organized volunteer events in 200 cities around the world.

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