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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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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

About : Formerly DMA: Washington Nonprofit Conference) Hosted by ANA (Association of National Advertisers), which acquired DMA Nonprofit Federation , this multi-day conference offers plenty of fresh ideas and expertise. SXSW’s Civic Engagement & Climate Change tracks are hosted under SXSW at large. Audience size : Around 200.

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How can nonprofits leverage volunteer engagement strategies to maximize impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Building relationships with volunteers and unlocking additional ways they may be willing to support the cause helps an organization develop its capacity to fulfill its mission. Sending volunteers regular communications and inviting them to special events can be an effective method of developing a donor relationship with volunteers.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

sgEngage

However, you actually began your career working in social good as a White House Fellow focused on the Corporation for National and Community Service and AmeriCorps Promise Fellows programs. What made you decide to take the helm at NMAAM and return as a social good leader in a professional capacity? A: Technology ties us all together.

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Nonprofit leadership has gone by the wayside — How to create a future of strong, capable leaders

ASU Lodestar Center

As one of the corporate sector's most successful leaders of "the new order" put it, "Committing to building great relationships is the only way for the enterprise to reach its fullest potential." It's a leader's job to make sure great relationships are built, and that those involved in the relationships are free to lead together.

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Learning to Lead, Part 1: Why I Returned to Public Allies for a Second Year

ASU Lodestar Center

For my required Nonprofit Leadership Alliance internship, I chose to serve for a second year as an AmeriCorps volunteer in the Public Allies Arizona program at the ASU Lodestar Center, returning to Public Allies five years after I had served with Native American Connections. I nurtured the relationship.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

Connection Cafe

However, you actually began your career working in social good as a White House Fellow focused on the Corporation for National and Community Service and AmeriCorps Promise Fellows programs. What made you decide to take the helm at NMAAM and return as a social good leader in a professional capacity? A: Technology ties us all together.

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