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

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

ASU Lodestar Center

The result is that the chaff is blown away, leaving behind a much cleaner picture of the nonprofit sector. The National Center for Charitable Statistics notes that 90 percent of these organizations have never filed any kind of return. The fourth one is The Nations Missing Children, in Phoenix. Most of them are very small.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Crafting a Successful Third Generation.

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Recently, I interviewed the facilitators of " Third Generation: Nonprofit | Business | Relationships | Evolved ," a special three-hour workshop hosted by the National Bank of Arizona and organized by the ASU Lodestar Center. at the National Bank of Arizona in Phoenix. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Better Together: Collaboration and.

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Need more volunteers for an event? Invite your friends from the nonprofit down the street to participate with their volunteers. With social media, organizations can create profiles and interact with local, national, and international partners in a myriad of ways. Picture This: A Look Back at This Year's Spring Fo.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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The ASU Nonprofit Management Institute (NMI) is one of only 56 continuing education professional development programs in the nation. [2] Current nonprofit leaders say that because of the recent downturn in the local and national economy, there is increased competition for nonprofit positions. Fear not, nonprofit professionals!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Social Media is all.

ASU Lodestar Center

As I led a workshop at the national convention of the Alliance for Children and Families that focused on these trends, the significant challenge was for each organization to become "futurists," studying the trends for a year at their board meetings in hopes of understanding how they can be embraced as a part of the organizations cultures.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday Guest Post: "State of.

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In Arizona, 35% of our survey respondents reported having less than 1 month of cash on hand (10% had none), which is fairly consistent with results nationally. A resounding 58% of respondents nationally, and 55% in Arizona, feel comfortable talking with their funders about program expansion, a generally positive topic.