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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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Public Allies Arizona: Getting Things Done for America

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Annie Bello Graduate Public Allies Arizona I quickly realized that Public Allies was no cop out when we were sworn in as AmeriCorps members. I am an AmeriCorps member, and I will get things done. With the support of the cohort, program managers and supervisors we have continued through hard times.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, March 16, 2011 How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man posted by Michael Soto , 2nd Year Fellow – Public Allies Arizona / Arizona Citizens for the Arts Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to serve my country. My mother served her country by joining the Army at the age of 18.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. As nonprofits limited worker contact, many shuttered or adjusted programs and asked their volunteers to stay away. Note: The Technology Evolution in Volunteer Administration Study is funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. When we’re in person, some of those clients weren’t able to access our programs because there was no transportation. But for some, it opened doors.

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How can nonprofits leverage volunteer engagement strategies to maximize impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

In order to cultivate volunteers to contribute in these ways, a strong foundational volunteer program must be in place. Develop an Integrated Volunteer Program. Effective volunteer engagement can only be implemented in conjunction with a robust volunteer program.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Chris Coons, addresses this inequity by proposing an increase of the AmeriCorps living allowance to offer greater financial support to all who are willing to serve. The ASU Lodestar Center has operated Public Allies Arizona since 2006.