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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. The original Encore Fellowships program in California pairs former corporate professionals with clinics and consortia in the Central Valley and the greater San Francisco Bay Area.

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Cause Camp 2017 Speaker Lineup Announcement

NonProfit Hub

Named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” Beth was Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation 2009-2013. He received his BA from the University of Nebraska and his MBA from the University of Texas.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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