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$370 Million In AmeriCorps Grants Available

The NonProfit Times

AmeriCorps, the national service program that annually matches volunteers with community needs across the country, will award grants totaling more than $370 million to nonprofit and faith-based organizations spanning the public and private sectors for the upcoming fiscal year. million to help pay for college or to pay back student loans.

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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

The conference will bring together fundraising and marketing professionals to exchange innovative ideas and generate creative strategies that can help you build and strengthen your relationship with your donors. These tracks cover innovation, activism, comms, education and tech. SXSW Civic Engagement & Climate Change + SXSW EDU.

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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?

ASU Lodestar Center

Embracing diversity has to come from an educated and legitimate place, or people will become disillusioned with the organization. Seeking out young community leaders to help recruit those in their networks creates new champions for a mission and potential donors in return. Direct marketing and communication toward younger audiences.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal. They will support schools in closing the educational gaps that have widened by schools shuttering.

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

Twenty Hats

We spoke with 181 volunteer managers that work in human service organizations, governmental agencies, higher education, hospitals, zoos, and more. One theme we’re seeing over and over again is how the pandemic changed the way volunteer managers educate and train their volunteers and clients, often using Zoom or other video sharing platforms.

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

Twenty Hats

Our volunteer pool consists primarily of older adults and through them I have grown to realize why I continue to remain in the field of volunteer management: there is great joy in helping a volunteer discover – or rediscover – purpose through acts of service. And for me, that is the good stuff.

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How can nonprofits leverage volunteer engagement strategies to maximize impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Many charitable nonprofits rely on the help of volunteers to fulfill their missions. Whether it be packing food boxes, mentoring youth, or assisting with general office work, volunteers contribute valuable time and energy to help organizations succeed. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. Engage volunteers as leaders.