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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. Last summer, I met a young man in Arizona named Kyle. Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums , a Points of Light enterprise.

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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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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. These organizations still only dabble in recommended practices (like crafting job descriptions for volunteers, training staff to work with them and evaluating their work), with a few organizations setting the curve and most lagging behind.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Millennials (born 1981-1995) engage differently with nonprofits and face more financial constraints than their predecessors. Then identify already existing efforts to get younger individuals in the door and determine what’s working and what’s driving people away. Embrace diversity internally and externally. Engage in crowdfunding.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

Now should be no different. National service has successfully served as a career pipeline for participants, but one that has worked most reliably for well-intentioned young white people from affluent families who can afford to take a “gap year” with a minimal stipend.

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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

Even as different stakeholders demand their share of responsiveness from the organization, improving organizational effectiveness should appeal to most nonprofit stakeholders. Natalia Winberry completed her undergraduate studies at Beloit College in 2007 and started her career in 2008 as an AmeriCorps VISTA in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Public Allies: A Story of Impact

ASU Lodestar Center

My name is Taylor Polen, I was born and raised in Arizona and am passionate about finding creative solutions to inspire systemic equality and opportunity for all. Since beginning at the Alzheimer's Association, I have been utilized in several different capacities by my coworkers and supervisor.

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