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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. Volunteer managers adapted and learned how to use old technology in new ways.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

If the pandemic forced us onto new and unfamiliar ground, now is the time to assess and balance how technologies have affected our reach, for better and for worse. We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. and Canada about their technology use.

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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. On the other hand, in this age of electronic networking and virtual technology, we shouldn’t say that the volunteers disappeared. Turns out that people have been studying technology adoption, from microwaves to online banking, for a long time.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Young people today are well-connected because of social media and technology. Emily Santeler is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. An AmeriCorps alum and recent inductee of the Nu Lambda Mu International Honor Society , Ms. Explore networking.

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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

ASU Lodestar Center

Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. A second is the technology revolution. A second social change is huge: The diffusion of information technology into all parts of our lives. Note: The 2019 Volunteer Management Capacity Study was funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Life at Double the Donation | Meet the Team, Career Experience & More

Double the Donation

The company was founded in 2011 when Adam Weinger, Double the Donation’s President, was working at a major bank and made donations to his university, the local Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, and LLS. By the time he realized his company had a matching gift program, it was too late to get many of those donations matched.

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