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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

Students gravitated to online classes. You can get some sense of these issues in the brief, but the big goal of the project is to see how these forces vary with the intention to use primary technology tools for volunteer administration. Note: The Technology Evolution in Volunteer Administration Study is funded by AmeriCorps, a U.S.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Kick off meeting with the Impact Labs Climate Action Cohort. Why Climate Justice?

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. With technology solutions, organizations were able to reach volunteers and clients who lived too far away or had other mobility issues.

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Research Friday: Corporate Volunteer Programs: Synergy in Business and Nonprofit Actions

ASU Lodestar Center

A Cone/Roper report supports the Walker conclusions, noting that two-thirds of Americans claim to be more likely to support a company that aligns with a social issue (Phillips Business Information Inc., Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU.

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Learning in the White Space: 5 Unintended Lessons from a Marketing Class

NTEN

As an educator (and a social media neophyte), I was dismayed that – despite the scant five students in class – the instructor never asked us to introduce ourselves and discuss why we were there. He used phrases like "the issue of the Internet" and "computerization" that made it sound like he thought these were merely passing fads.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: All You Need is Love. and a Whole Lot.

ASU Lodestar Center

When I was interviewing people at the Forum for these videos, the general consensus was that everyone really loved having a space where they could meet on mutual ground and just talk about the issues they were having with communication. I think many students would benefit from witnessing the panelists and the conversations that follow.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "The Art of Data.

ASU Lodestar Center

Whether practitioners, volunteers, or donors, we want our end-users to understand issues in ways that help them become more efficient and effective within their nonprofit organizations and across their networks of nonprofits. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o.