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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. A few months ago, I was shopping at the local grocery market, wearing my AmeriCorps sweatshirt.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

In the spring of 2020, as COVID-19 and the uncertainty of how to react spread across the United States and Canada, people holed up in their houses and apartments. As nonprofits limited worker contact, many shuttered or adjusted programs and asked their volunteers to stay away. Students gravitated to online classes.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

Volunteer operations were hard-hit in the pandemic, with many nonprofits shuttering contact with volunteers entirely. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. Who are these people we talked with?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

Within an hour (and with a huge helping hand from social media), thousands had mobilized and gathered all over the United States to celebrate, remember, and embrace. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization.

ASU Lodestar Center

The United States has approximately 1,600,000 nonprofit organizations of which about 800,000 are charities. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. 1] Thats a lot of service!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Relationships Matter

ASU Lodestar Center

In the Center for Effective Philanthropys research on strong funder-grantee relationships , we looked at a subsample of our grantee data: responses from almost 30,000 grantees representing 175 funders across the United States of all different types, sizes, and focuses. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. We welcome your comments and feedback.