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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

I had big plans for programming, outreach to families, and working with volunteers. I was more focused on my vision for programs than the people I was supposed to empower. I did not yet understand how vital volunteers are – especially volunteer leaders – for program growth, ownership, and sustainability. The result?

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

ASU Lodestar Center

We have an opportunity to begin reshaping our institutions and the future by creating the next wave of national service — one fueled by the proximate leadership required to meet this moment effectively. Second , national policy must incentivize and prioritize the recruitment and deployment of local, proximate leadership.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Jennifer Anderson is the executive director of Trellis for Tomorrow, a nonprofit that works to build resilience and compassion in local communities through food justice and environmental sustainability efforts. The Croatan Institute and its REEFS program is hoping to organize a summit for climate leaders of color in 2022.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Natalia Winberry Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. By improving downward accountability, defined as accountability to the populations nonprofits serve, organizations can meet their obligations to clients and others affected by the services and programs of a nonprofit (Ebrahim, 2003).

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

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Annette Sutfin , Kinship Program. Orchestrated effectively, a corporate volunteer program has the potential to render benefits not only to the nonprofit, but to the corporation as well. The hours of unpaid labor afforded by such programs is the obvious contribution to the nonprofit organization. Sources: Brudney, J.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

Transitioning from in-person to virtual programming was challenging at best and disastrous at worst, particularly for volunteers and clients without the means or savvy to connect digitally. When we’re in person, some of those clients weren’t able to access our programs because there was no transportation. It wasn’t!