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

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The NLA program was originally founded as the American Humanics program at Arizona State University in 1980 with the support of the Phoenix Rotary Club 100 and local nonprofit organizations. I am excited about manifesting the national competencies into what we do on a local level, and bringing those into our classroom space.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Elsbeth Pollack

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Elsbeth Pollack is a Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona (PAAZ) , an AmeriCorps program that engages service-minded young individuals in 10-months of paid leadership training, apprenticeships, and service opportunities in collaboration with local nonprofit partner organizations. Elsbeth Pollack Program Manager, Public Allies Arizona.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Really, How Many.

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It provides the basis for regular reporting on volunteerism by the Corporation for National and Community Service. Through the 1980s and 1990s, such outfits as Gallup, Westat, and Princeton Survey Research Associates reported national volunteering estimates north of 40 percent and sometimes higher than 50 percent. One in four.

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Finding Pride in American Service

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Not every country exports volunteers in the way our country does — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Cross Cultural Solutions, Atlas Corps, Global Leadership Adventures. During our country's current educational reform, leaders are emphasizing service learning, and they're demanding this principle be built into a national curriculum.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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It seemed that the world wanted nonprofits to spend nothing on administration and fundraising, and many were reporting just that. However, story after story pointed to pressures from donors for nonprofits to invest as little money as possible in administration and fundraising. The third was to fudge the accounting.

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