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AmeriCorps Announces Volunteer Generation Fund Grant Competition

NonProfit PRO

AmeriCorps released a notice of funding opportunity for the fiscal year 2023 Volunteer Generation Fund. The Volunteer Generation Fund, open to State Service Commissions, local nonprofit, community, faith-based, tribal, state, and local governments and schools, focuses on investments for volunteer management practices.

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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources.

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

Twenty Hats

For the past 16 years, I have coordinated volunteer programs within local government. The volunteers continue to work with local organizations to address needs as direct service volunteers, ambassadors for a cause, and resource development project leaders. I did not want to give away the good stuff. Fast forward to the present.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts. Jennifer Anderson. Executive Director, Trellis for Tomorrow.

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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?

ASU Lodestar Center

Under pressure from multiple stakeholders, nonprofits tend to prioritize accountability to donors, foundations and governments over accountability to clients and the populations served by the organization (Ebrahim, 2003). Natalia graduated in May 2017 with a Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management from Arizona State University.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Elsbeth Pollack

ASU Lodestar Center

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.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday Guest Post: "State of.

ASU Lodestar Center

After the next round of projected government funding cuts, will we continue to ask nonprofits to pick up the slack, expanding their services without a solid plan for funding the full cost of these operations? How can we expect nonprofits to pick up the slack of government cuts? Its very reflective of America's wallets.