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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back

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Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources.

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Comfort vs. Action: The Internal Debate

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AmeriCorps Coordinator. Tan is a Coordinator in ASU’s University Service Learning department, specializing in community partnerships and AmeriCorps programming. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" by Michael Soto. Tan , University Service Learning /. ASU Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. Like this article?

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

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A couple of weeks ago, I stepped into my first marketing class excited to learn and meet some new people in my still-smells-like-new home base in New Jersey. She got pulled into #nptech as an AmeriCorps VISTA with Teaming for Technology 12 years ago, and has been asking "So what?" and "Why does it matter?"

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Finding Pride in American Service

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Not every country exports volunteers in the way our country does — the Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Cross Cultural Solutions, Atlas Corps, Global Leadership Adventures. This year in AmeriCorps, and the lessons learned in regards to How to Be of Service, however, have pushed me to use a different qualifying word for what it is we do: progress.

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

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I live in New Jersey, and I have to go back," replied Shelina. Posted by ASU Lodestar Center at 4:44 PM Labels: AmeriCorps , Laura Tan , Public Allies , United Way 8comments: Kayla said. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man Research Friday: "Is Religious Giving Increasing o. countered Zee. "I

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