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

Twenty Hats

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.”. But for some, it opened doors.

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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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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. 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

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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. Next time, say it with feeling. ever since.

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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)! The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam. Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org.