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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

Although we did not start with a particular emphasis on equity and access, this theme came up regularly in our conversations with the field. 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.

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

Twenty Hats

The survey gave us a basic sketch, but the color and texture emerged during follow-up focus group conversations. Transitioning from in-person to virtual programming was challenging at best and disastrous at worst, particularly for volunteers and clients without the means or savvy to connect digitally. But for some, it opened doors.

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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

I wondered if we have gotten so caught up in digital social networking that we've forgotten how to do the original social networking – talking with one another! The instructor made no mention of digital marketing or social media. Unintended) Lesson #2: Say less, people will remember more. and "Why does it matter?" ever since.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam. In conversations they would ask me how school is going and then I would tell them about the different things I am doing in each class. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o.