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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. A few months ago, I was shopping at the local grocery market, wearing my AmeriCorps sweatshirt.

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

Twenty Hats

Over the past year, our research team at Arizona State University has conducted the Technology Evolution in Volunteer Management, or “TEVA” project. One was an airline company, so I assumed it would be their local employees signing up. But among the storm clouds, there were some silver linings. It wasn’t!

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Life at Double the Donation | Meet the Team, Career Experience & More

Double the Donation

The company was founded in 2011 when Adam Weinger, Double the Donation’s President, was working at a major bank and made donations to his university, the local Big Brothers Big Sisters organization, and LLS. By the time he realized his company had a matching gift program, it was too late to get many of those donations matched.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

A Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow and a research affiliate of the University of Washington’s Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology, his writing and data visualization have appeared in The Atlantic, The Economist, The Guardian, Vox, and many other publications. Jennifer Anderson. Executive Director, Trellis for Tomorrow.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations seeking to amplify the voices of clients face decisions about selecting the right combination of mechanisms as they aim to implement tools and processes conducive to the local operating environment of the nonprofit.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools. Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Center for Social Development, George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Sources: 1.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. Similar exchange systems were also established with the police department and local nonprofits that might refer youth to the shelter. how to start a nonprofit Dick Erwin AmeriCorps' My internship took place at Fairbanks Youth Advocates in Fairbanks, Alaska.

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