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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. They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”.

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Four Strategies for Effective Nonprofit Volunteer Engagement and Programs

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Tasks that are less urgent, like picking up trash outside or calling a game of bingo, can be assigned to volunteers like high school students or groups that are interested in one-time opportunities. Have a conversation with them about what they want to do and what they feel capable of doing.

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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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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba, Part 2

ASU Lodestar Center

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

ASU Lodestar Center

Will students be able to attend (if it's even only to observe) the 2012 2011 Forum on Nonprofit Effectiveness? I think many students would benefit from witnessing the panelists and the conversations that follow. In the video in my blog there is a student giving testimony to how beneficial the forum was to her.

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

NTEN

Thanks to many recent conversations I've had with Erica Mills of Claxon Marketing (and spending much time reading her blog ), I'm coming to realize that telling someone your most compelling thing is better than telling them your everything (to use Erica's words). Instead, my eyes glazed over and my ears tuned out. What a missed opportunity!

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

ASU Lodestar Center

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org. I like to be informed of what the organization is doing, but I dont want mail solicitations.