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Research Friday: Corporate Volunteer Programs: Synergy in Business and Nonprofit Actions

ASU Lodestar Center

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. She previously served a term for AmeriCorps with an adult literacy program in Flagstaff.

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Will It Take a Village to Bring Our Communities Online?

NTEN

From the time I started using CoTweet, every feature, every interaction, every conversation has convinced me that they are building a tool to make me a more successful Twitter user. Disclosure: In August 2009, CoTweet paid me to write a casestudy for them.). We can hack how we interact. When did I turn into such a giant nerd?

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. In 2009, for example, 2 trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing directly. http ://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/world/americas/21text.html?_r= link] 9546.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Since 2009, online donations made on mobile devices have grown from 9% of all transactions to 24% in 2018. SMS text-to-give in the United States experienced a major spike following the Haiti Earthquake in 2010 but has never achieved inflated expectations. Compare that to about 2 billion personal computers – and not growing. Time is up.

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