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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

Defining ‘community service’ broadly Based on surveys and focus groups, Leveraging the Potential of Youth Service found that young people ages 18 to 25 defined “community service” broadly, beyond volunteering with a nonprofit organization. The students also emphasized that service increased their sense of agency.

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

Twenty Hats

So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. Some manage a handful of volunteers, others work with many thousands.

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Earth Day ‘22: Salesforce.org Customers Tackle Climate Challenges by Land, Air & Sea

Saleforce Nonprofit

At Salesforce.org, we are proud to see how much of our community — whether it’s our employees, our partners, or the nonprofits we support — is jumping in through funding, advocacy, or volunteering. Mission: Empowerment of children and youth and mobilize for and enable the restoration of 1 trillion new trees worldwide.

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What I Learned About Online Donor Engagement from Fundraisers in Brasil

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I delivered a keynote for Social Good Brasil in 2012 and for a conference on volunteering hosted by Fundação Telefônica in 2014. The UN Global Report is also using Facebook Messenger bots to engage young people around different issues. Empowerment. This was my third visit to the country. Transparency. Aspiration.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. With Concrn, volunteer responders are trained in crisis intervention and mediation by professionals, sign up for on-call shifts, and respond to text alerts.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

Some of our best volunteers come from the County court referral system. And that means we get volunteers who are A. We've hired amazing people out of this unorthodox volunteer pipeline. HOW (slides 24-42) There are three “tracks” to our theory of change: individual empowerment, social bonding, and social bridging.

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