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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. The first big piece was a survey of volunteer administrators. More specifically, we surveyed individuals in the U.S. You can read the new brief , an overview of the survey results, right now. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

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Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. We started with a survey this past winter: those results are summarized in this report.

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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. The national survey of nonprofit organizations provided our first benchmark insights into the nation’s readiness to handle an onslaught of new volunteers. Note: The 2019 Volunteer Management Capacity Study was funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, leaders might survey who makes up a board of directors or determine if there are groups that would benefit from an organization’s services that currently are not. Emily Santeler is a 2021 graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University.

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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

In 2014, the Center for Effective Philanthropy conducted a survey of 235 nonprofit leaders to identify the main practices used by nonprofit organizations to engage clients (Buteau, Gopal, & Buchanan, 2014). Among those surveyed, almost all of the nonprofit leaders indicated their organizations gathered client feedback (Buteau et al.,

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday Guest Post: "State of.

ASU Lodestar Center

For this week’s post, we welcome Angela Francis from Nonprofit Finance Fund to discuss NFF’s recently released State of the Sector survey findings. Nonprofit Finance Fund recently completed its third annual "State of the Nonprofit Sector" survey with the help of nearly 2,000 nonprofit leaders nationwide.

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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.