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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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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. I appreciate how enriching it is to work with like-minded people in the mission-driven space!

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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? Dick got his bachelor''s degree in interdisciplinary studies in education and nonprofit leadership and management at Arizona State University.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

Arizona State University began its fall semester last Thursday, while Public Allies Arizona will kick off its 14th year next week. Throughout the first few weeks, Anne had discussed her journey with community, AmeriCorps and how she has a passion for giving back. posted by Maggie Saucedo Class 13 Public Ally.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

So, we assembled a research team at Arizona State University and set off on an ambitious research project to survey and interview volunteer managers across the U.S. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Crafting a Successful Third Generation.

ASU Lodestar Center

Its not an original work, but is work Ive compiled from many brilliant minds whose thought leadership, innovation, creative thinking, and written work has motivated and inspired me. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. Central Ave.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Really, Your Tax.

ASU Lodestar Center

Only one of these four raises questions in mind about whether charitable assets might have gotten distributed in questionable ways. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. Most organizations (like some of these) bleed out rather than formally dissolve. Central Ave.