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A Helpful (Unofficial) Digital Training Guide for New AmeriCorps Members

Whole Whale

Just to be clear from the beginning of this guide, Whole Whale is not directly affiliated or funded by AmeriCorps (though there are alumni on our staff), but we ARE huge fans of the program. However, over the past two years of the pandemic, there has been a massive shift to digital outreach that nonprofits now rely on to increase impact.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

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. A focus group participant with an LGBTQ+ youth organization said: [Digital technology] is…really beneficial to reach out to the disabled community.

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

Amy Sample Ward

I am part of the Digital Arts Service Corps, which is an initiative of the Transmission Project that pairs tech-savvy AmeriCorps Vistas with organizations dedicated to supporting community media and technology. Who was the community that you were working with?

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

Twenty Hats

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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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is a digital transformation strategist with twenty years of experience working with large non-profits in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Pacific. “As My participation in this Lab may shape the summit’s agenda and lead to potential new collaborations.”. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa.

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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: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

However, the EIN advertised as 501(c)3 on their website (13-3759639) is one digit off from The Nations Missing Children (13-3759539), suggesting a typo. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector.