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

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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. A massive expansion of service is required to meet today’s challenges.

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Learning to Lead, Part 3: How Public Allies and ASU Expanded My Nonprofit Leadership Toolkit

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Although the Public Allies program is also a nonprofit leadership program just like the degree and certificate program and is all under the ASU Lodestar Center, Public Allies is a national program under AmeriCorps first. Something that does not differ between the programs is the intense and powerful emphasis on integrity and collaboration.

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Webinar: Welcome Messages That Work

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She has also recently served a term with AmeriCorps, leading a team of environmental education volunteers. Prior to coming to Care2, Emily worked as a features reporter for a newspaper in San Luis Obispo, CA. A life-long activist, she had volunteered with the Progressive Student Alliance, Amnesty International and Sierra Club.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: $250000 Collaboration Prize Finalists.

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The Collaboration Prize was created and is funded by The Lodestar Foundation in collaboration with the Arizona-Indiana-Michigan (AIM) Alliance , of which the ASU Lodestar Center is an integral part. The Finalists are: Adoption Coalition of Texas , Austin, Texas Community Voice Mail Federation , Seattle, Washington Feed More, Inc.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: "If you have to leave, why did you.

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Shelinas question highlights an important part of the service dynamic and embodies one of the core values of the Public Allies program I help manage at the ASU Lodestar Center: having integrity about the work that we come into communities to do. This is such a great perspective. Research Friday Guest Post: "State of the Sector.

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