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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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Why Volunteers Quit: How to Retain Them

Volunteer Hub

According to AmeriCorps, the national average volunteer retention rate is 65%. Optimize your volunteer program by providing volunteers with a variety of opportunities ranging in time. Your training program should outline expectations, responsibilities, tasks, and procedures. Being flexible is a must.

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Guest Post: Why it’s worth allowing volunteers to lead (even when it’s uncomfortable)

Twenty Hats

I had big plans for programming, outreach to families, and working with volunteers. I was more focused on my vision for programs than the people I was supposed to empower. I did not yet understand how vital volunteers are – especially volunteer leaders – for program growth, ownership, and sustainability.

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Use Case: The Community-Driven Social Impact game for Community Media Centers

Amy Sample Ward

Our objective was to develop grants and programs as a group to strengthen our individual community media centers and support the movement as a whole. I kept the original questions for the first two spaces (Who is your community? Then, I modified the last two questions to better serve the purpose of the meeting.

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Comfort vs. Action: The Internal Debate

ASU Lodestar Center

AmeriCorps Coordinator. His stance raises the question: Does being committed to social change require making one less comfortable or resisting being “too comfortable?". Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming. Get another!

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

of Academic Programs. A related research question is the impact or positive incentive of volunteer stipends among low-wage earners (McBride, Gonzales, Morrow-Howell, & McCrary, 2011). Piper Trust funded an expansion of the Encore Fellowships program that originated in California. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. ASU Lodestar Center.

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Is Cause Marketing Real Advocacy or Consumer Apathy at its Finest?

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posted by Audra Buras , Grants and Outreach Specialist, Program for Torture Victims. Some days I question whether or not I might be a nonprofit junkie. Which leads me to the agonizingly, rhetorical question that I have yet to resolve in my mind. A lot of money. All signs point to yes.). Or bad thing?

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