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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. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources.

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4 Life-Enriching Reasons to Volunteer

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For most people who volunteer, the motivation is to make a difference and give something back to society. A Volunteering in America study, published by AmeriCorps, found that volunteering gives job prospects a 27% advantage over non-volunteers. Here are 4 ways that volunteerism can provide you with value.

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

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Now should be no different. 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. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

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Truly, there are a couple big changes over the past couple decades that make today’s volunteer administration look very different than it did two decades ago. This requires nonprofits to manage to the interests of two very different types of volunteers. Note: The 2019 Volunteer Management Capacity Study was funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

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Millennials (born 1981-1995) engage differently with nonprofits and face more financial constraints than their predecessors. Fundraisers act as bridges between individuals and causes they care about and this is no different for the next generation of donors. A lifelong resident of Wisconsin, Ms.

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

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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. We can already tell that the future will look much different than the pre-pandemic past.

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

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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.