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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

Chris Coons, addresses this inequity by proposing an increase of the AmeriCorps living allowance to offer greater financial support to all who are willing to serve. Second , national policy must incentivize and prioritize the recruitment and deployment of local, proximate leadership.

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Guest Post: Why it’s worth allowing volunteers to lead (even when it’s uncomfortable)

Twenty Hats

For the past 16 years, I have coordinated volunteer programs within local government. The volunteers continue to work with local organizations to address needs as direct service volunteers, ambassadors for a cause, and resource development project leaders. I did not want to give away the good stuff. Fast forward to the present.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Improving downward accountability benefits nonprofits by empowering the individuals they serve, improving the legitimacy of the organization, and enhancing organizational effectiveness (Mercelis, Wellens & Jegers, 2016; Twersky et al.,

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Additionally, stipended volunteers reported higher perceived benefits of participation than non-stipended volunteers.

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

Twenty Hats

One volunteer manager at a maternal and child health organization in Canada described how moving online had the unexpected benefit of reaching hard-to-reach clients: “One of the positives that came out of the whole shutdown and being virtual was that we were able to provide service to clients in remote, rural communities. It wasn’t!

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MEET AN ALLY: Samira Amin

ASU Lodestar Center

Public Allies Arizona ’s 13th class will graduate in June 28, the completion of a 10-month AmeriCorps program that places emerging young leaders at local nonprofits for full-time paid apprenticeships. posted by Samira Amin Class 13 Public Ally. Find out how you can get involved as an Ally or a Partner Organization. )

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