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Use Case: The Community-Driven Social Impact game for Community Media Centers

Amy Sample Ward

Our objective was to develop grants and programs as a group to strengthen our individual community media centers and support the movement as a whole. The goal of the day was to develop a collaborative grant proposal for a project that would be pertinent and beneficial to each CMC. Who was the community that you were working with?

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Elsbeth Pollack

ASU Lodestar Center

Elsbeth Pollack is a Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona (PAAZ) , an AmeriCorps program that engages service-minded young individuals in 10-months of paid leadership training, apprenticeships, and service opportunities in collaboration with local nonprofit partner organizations. Elsbeth Pollack Program Manager, Public Allies Arizona.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization.

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are granted federal exemptions of certain taxes; for-profits are taxable. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. These are a few of the key differences that can help you make the right choice for your organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, is the.

ASU Lodestar Center

On the other hand, proponents of social enterprise have a lot of good things to say about earned income strategies, especially in lean times when grants and contributions are hard to come by. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

million in government grants , although Ill guess that those were probably really contracts. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. Theyre apparently dead, and the IRS is just now cleaning up the body. Their 2006 Form 990 shows $1.3

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Keeping the Volunteering Torch Lit

ASU Lodestar Center

I have learned not to take things for granted and to be truly thankful for the things that I have, including the "family" I have in the nonprofit community. As you mentioned in the post, I hope to instill values (help others, not taking things for granted, open their views/minds) in her. May 11, 2011 11:21 AM Loli said.