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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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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

The fellows, experienced professionals who are at or near retirement, are able to use the skills gained in their former roles to make a difference, earn a stipend, and learn about transitioning to work in the nonprofit sector. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. CDS Working Papers 09-12.

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4 Life-Enriching Reasons to Volunteer

Volunteer Hub

For most people who volunteer, the motivation is to make a difference and give something back to society. If you take up volunteering while you’re still of working age, you can expect your career prospects to gain a boost. Here are 4 ways that volunteerism can provide you with value.

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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

ASU Lodestar Center

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. This requires nonprofits to manage to the interests of two very different types of volunteers.

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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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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.