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Comfort vs. Action: The Internal Debate

ASU Lodestar Center

AmeriCorps Coordinator. Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming. Like this article? How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" by Michael Soto. Tan , University Service Learning /. Could I be doing more? Get another!

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Like this article? This study investigated older adult volunteers serving in the Experience Corps program across 23 U.S. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. Like this article? how to start a nonprofit Dick Erwin AmeriCorps' I recently completed a nonprofit internship, and it was a very difficult and challenging experience. My internship took place at Fairbanks Youth Advocates in Fairbanks, Alaska. Get another!

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

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Audra Buras is currently serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Los Angeles, California. Like this article? She has over six years of experience in the nonprofit sector, and recently received her M.A. in Communication Studies from Arizona State University. She also holds a B.S. in Public Relations from Northern Arizona University.

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Nonprofit leadership has gone by the wayside — How to create a future of strong, capable leaders

ASU Lodestar Center

Like this article? Click here to read "How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" — a post from young leader Michael Soto about his experiences with ASU Lodestar's Public Allies Arizona program. I asked my father, and he replied, "You will know you are a great leader when you have given leadership to everyone else.".

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Who's Behind That Voice on the Phone: Meet TechSoup Client Services

Tech Soup

Gina Frassetto is one of a number of people at TechSoup who have come to us from AmeriCorps or the Peace Corp. As an AmeriCorps volunteer, she ran environmental stewardship programs for schoolchildren at Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire. I think she is the only one of us, though, who is an alumna of both.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

That wrench is key to the Big Theme and Conclusion of this article. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. The quotes in this article all come from these focus group conversations.