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How can nonprofits leverage volunteer engagement strategies to maximize impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Volunteers are often viewed as a separate entity from donors, but volunteers also have money they may be willing to contribute. Exposing volunteers to ways they can grow their individual impact helps organizations to retain and leverage the time and money of volunteers. Engage volunteers as donors. Engage volunteers as advocates.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

In the world of nonprofit sponsorship, it’s no secret that cause marketing has rapidly become the most popular method for nonprofits and businesses to simultaneously make money. A lot of money. Nonprofits that otherwise would not have received that money, since the business is producing the product. All signs point to yes.).

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba, Part 2

ASU Lodestar Center

The NLA program was originally founded as the American Humanics program at Arizona State University in 1980 with the support of the Phoenix Rotary Club 100 and local nonprofit organizations. One example is a longstanding partnership with the Arizona Ironman competition. What are your goals for the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance at ASU?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

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I dont mind administrative spending, but I bristle at high fundraising costs. In our recent Arizona Giving and Volunteering* research, we asked respondents if they could recall a decision to stop giving to an organization they had previously supported. Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

ASU Lodestar Center

A couple months ago, the ASU Lodestar Center released its 2010 report on Arizona Giving & Volunteering. On one of the pages, amid all the charts on who volunteers and what they do, is a big banner depicting the following result: "33 percent of Arizona adults volunteered in 2008." Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Finding Pride in American Service

ASU Lodestar Center

Dianna Schwartz , Public Allies Arizona Alumna /. Not every country exports volunteers in the way our country does — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Cross Cultural Solutions, Atlas Corps, Global Leadership Adventures. Program Associate, New Global Citizens. While we certainly have reasons to be reluctant to announce our U.S. Get another!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

It seemed that the world wanted nonprofits to spend nothing on administration and fundraising, and many were reporting just that. However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. The third was to fudge the accounting.

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