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Research Friday: Senior Arizona volunteers -- how do they stack up against the rest of the nation?

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Which groups of volunteers are the most active? A few years ago, the ASU Lodestar Center, working in collaboration within the AIM Alliance (nonprofit centers in Arizona, Indiana, and Michigan), investigated giving and volunteering behaviors specifically within those three states. Like this article? Complex questions, no doubt.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

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So if you’re reading this article thinking “We’ll just go get a grant for what we need,” I highly encourage you to question that intention. This group of 400+ organizations – libraries, community foundations, and other nonprofit resource centers – offer you a way to access it from their location.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

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This article offers suggestions to help churches like yours grow giving with church fundraising events. Rescue Ministries of Mid-Michigan’s Giving Tuesday giving day donation page. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. Small group challenges.

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Can you use social media to spread thought leadership? Yes you can!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I did a presentation for a group of Bay Area population research funders along with Scott Swenson, editor of HR Reality Check. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter.

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What's Your Vision?

Museum 2.0

Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. If you want to know more, I recommend you check out the related ZingTrain articles on visioning, or even take their two-day course. We shared those energizing elements with the whole group.

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Research Friday: What Affects Hispanic Volunteering - Comparing Three Surveys in the United States

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2010, the United States Census recorded over 50 million Hispanics in America, making the Hispanic population is the largest minority group in the States [1]. The literature on minority philanthropy shows that minority groups in the U.S., Like this article? That number is projected to grow over 100 million by 2050.

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Voting on Art and its Surprising Consequences

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ArtPrize , the grandaddy of visitor voting, just completed its fourth year in Grand Rapids, Michigan. GO invited people to visit artists' studios throughout Brooklyn over one weekend and to nominate up to three favorites; the top ten will be considered for an upcoming group show at the museum. 1,708 artists participated.

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