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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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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, March 16, 2011 How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man posted by Michael Soto , 2nd Year Fellow – Public Allies Arizona / Arizona Citizens for the Arts Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to serve my country. And I thank Americorps for being the answer to my lifelong wish of serving my country.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Jaime Ernesto Uzeta, CEO, Public Allies. But it is imperative that those who enlist aren’t just the most privileged people who can most afford to do so; rather, they should be as representative of and accountable to the hardest hit areas as possible. First published on Ozy.com. Now should be no different.

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

Twenty Hats

I was more focused on my vision for programs than the people I was supposed to empower. For the past 16 years, I have coordinated volunteer programs within local government. A project idea emerged as a volunteer asked if a system existed to promote local volunteer opportunities to the public. Fast forward to the present.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

As organizations serving public interests, nonprofits answer to the voices of multiple stakeholders. However, by seeking out the voices of the people they serve, nonprofit organizations can embrace their responsibilities and improve their organizations.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes.

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

Twenty Hats

In other instances, education efforts were focused more on the people they serve than on their volunteers. The [public] transit didn’t go there.”. One was an airline company, so I assumed it would be their local employees signing up. And these were really unique ways to engage our volunteers.”. It wasn’t!