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Q&A with Maggie Saucedo, a Public Ally and Certified Nonprofit Professional

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Maggie Saucedo Class 13 Public Ally. Arizona State University began its fall semester last Thursday, while Public Allies Arizona will kick off its 14th year next week. With Public Allies, she is placed at Maryvale Revitalization Corporation and completes the program later this year.

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'I Truly Believe That Education is the Antidote for Ignorance, Poverty and War'

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Michelle Jimenez Class 12 Public Ally. Before becoming a Public Ally, I somewhat understood the nonprofit sector, since the year before I had served as a City Year Corps Member in Chicago through AmeriCorps. Michelle Jimenez was part of Public Allies' Class 12. I chose to see each project as a new opportunity.

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Fighting for a cause

ASU Lodestar Center

I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. Are you a service-minded, emerging professional looking to start your career in the Phoenix area''s nonprofit sector? Apply for Public Allies Arizona today! recruiting volunteers, creating flyers, writing public service. I was responsible for.

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Is Cause Marketing Real Advocacy or Consumer Apathy at its Finest?

ASU Lodestar Center

The supremacy of slapping a logo on a product is often mind-boggling to me. The argument behind consumption philanthropy comes to mind. Which leads me to the agonizingly, rhetorical question that I have yet to resolve in my mind. Audra Buras is currently serving as an AmeriCorps VISTA member in Los Angeles, California.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Elsbeth Pollack

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Elsbeth Pollack Program Manager, Public Allies Arizona. Elsbeth Pollack is a Program Manager for Public Allies Arizona (PAAZ) , an AmeriCorps program that engages service-minded young individuals in 10-months of paid leadership training, apprenticeships, and service opportunities in collaboration with local nonprofit partner organizations.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

They solicit community members to volunteer, bring them into mission activities, and broadcast their work to the public. 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. Who are these people we talked with?

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

Double the Donation

Before joining the Double the Donation team, I had been working as a Learning Coach in a 10-month AmeriCorps program for Hands on Atlanta immediately after graduating from Johns Hopkins University. I joined the team soon after graduating from George Mason University with a degree in Public Administration and a minor in Data Analysis.

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