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A Helpful (Unofficial) Digital Training Guide for New AmeriCorps Members

Whole Whale

Just to be clear from the beginning of this guide, Whole Whale is not directly affiliated or funded by AmeriCorps (though there are alumni on our staff), but we ARE huge fans of the program. Hint: SEO will be the best value over time followed by the Google Ad Grant. Are intake webforms working? Are emails being sent?

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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. Some rely primarily on generic workplace tools like Google Docs and Microsoft apps, but others invest in industry applications like Better Impact and Volgistics. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. posted by Mark A. And *poof*… the volunteers were gone.

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How Effective Branding Helps Achieve Nonprofit Mission

ASU Lodestar Center

Apple, Google and Starbucks all are famous brands in the for-profit sector. Goodwill, AmeriCorps and Girl Scouts are good examples in the nonprofit sector. For this reason, it is necessary that the organization represent universal values and ethics codes, articulated to providing a high-quality service.

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Effective Branding Helps Achieve Nonprofit Mission.Really?

ASU Lodestar Center

Apple, Google and Starbucks all are famous brands in the for-profit sector. Goodwill, AmeriCorps and Girl Scouts are good examples in the nonprofit sector. For this reason, it is necessary that the organization represent universal values and ethics codes, articulated to providing a high-quality service.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. 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.