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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. This is not new, but it was on the minds of our volunteer managers, and in a big way. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students.

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

NTEN

Over the next three hours, I absorbed the things my instructor was teaching, but I also found myself reflecting on a bunch of things he wasn't trying to teach at all – unless he's really good at Jedi mind tricks ! As class kicked off, the instructor began introducing himself and how he came to be teaching the class.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

I dont mind administrative spending, but I bristle at high fundraising costs. And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! Perhaps that is what some respondents had in mind. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: "Executive Compensation"

ASU Lodestar Center

Two things come to mind. I know from my own personal experience as a nonprofit student, I really had to educate myself in order to change my perspective about fair compensation. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: "If you have to leave, why did you.

ASU Lodestar Center

ASB is a great opportunity for college students who choose to spend their spring breaks volunteering in communities across the country. Since 2006, nearly 2,000 students have participated in ASB, volunteering over 64,000 hours of service. Shelina had no response. Its a pretty good question, right? This is such a great perspective.

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