AmeriCorps, Administration for Community Living Partner to Increase Volunteer Opportunities
NonProfit PRO
JANUARY 16, 2024
AmeriCorps and the Administration for Community Living have partnered for the development of new volunteer opportunities.
AmeriCorps Announces Volunteer Generation Fund Grant Competition
NonProfit PRO
APRIL 10, 2023
AmeriCorps released a notice of funding opportunity for the fiscal year 2023 Volunteer Generation Fund. The Volunteer Generation Fund, open to State Service Commissions, local nonprofit, community, faith-based, tribal, state, and local governments and schools, focuses on investments for volunteer management practices.
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AmeriCorps, Clinton Foundation Host Summit for the Future of National Service
NonProfit PRO
OCTOBER 25, 2023
26, Bill Clinton and AmeriCorps will convene at the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, Arkansas, for a summit for the future of national service. On Thursday, Oct. The summit marks the 30th anniversary of the National and Community Trust Act of 1993.
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Innovative Nonprofit Volunteer Retention Ideas to Keep Your Team Engaged
Donorbox
MARCH 29, 2024
Volunteers are critical to your cause. Most nonprofits rely on volunteers in one way or another – whether that’s board membership, event committees, or program volunteers. Census Bureau and AmeriCorps survey, however, showed a drop in volunteer participation from 30% to 23.2% The most recent U.S.
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AmeriCorps Announces 2023 Volunteer Generation Fund Grants Competition
NonProfit PRO
JULY 19, 2022
The Volunteer Generation Fund focuses on investments in volunteer management practices that increase both volunteer recruitment and retention. The 2023 grant competition will fund programs that address the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on students.
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185,000 Americans to be Recruited for 9/11 and MLK Days of Service and Volunteer Generation Fund
NonProfit PRO
AUGUST 11, 2023
AmeriCorps announced 45 organizations who have been awarded federal grants to support the Volunteer Generation Fund and Days of Service awards. More than $13 million will create service opportunities, recruit volunteers and encourage Americans to participate in the country’s two national days of service.
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National Service Programs Provide a Powerful Return on Investment
NonProfit PRO
DECEMBER 1, 2023
AmeriCorps released the results from four new return-on-investment (ROI) studies that estimate the value of benefits its programs generate per dollar invested. Each study helps AmeriCorps communicate the value of its programs to relevant stakeholders.
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A Helpful (Unofficial) Digital Training Guide for New AmeriCorps Members
Whole Whale
JANUARY 26, 2022
Just to be clear from the beginning of this guide, Whole Whale is not directly affiliated or funded by AmeriCorps (though there are alumni on our staff), but we ARE huge fans of the program. However, over the past two years of the pandemic, there has been a massive shift to digital outreach that nonprofits now rely on to increase impact.
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AmeriCorps Launches 9/11 Day Search Tool for Nonprofit Service Opportunities
NonProfit PRO
SEPTEMBER 10, 2021
A new search tool makes it easier for volunteers to find local causes participating in the annual Sept. 11 National Day of Service and Remembrance.
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4 Life-Enriching Reasons to Volunteer
Volunteer Hub
JUNE 2, 2021
Volunteering has the power to positively impact the community and provide you with life-changing benefits at the same time. For most people who volunteer, the motivation is to make a difference and give something back to society. Here are four ways that volunteering your time for others can enrich your own life too.
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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown
ASU Lodestar Center
AUGUST 25, 2021
Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. And *poof*… the volunteers were gone. As nonprofits limited worker contact, many shuttered or adjusted programs and asked their volunteers to stay away. The first big piece was a survey of volunteer administrators.
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Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 6, 2013
Ben Duda is executive director of AmeriCorps Alums and graciously agreed to share some thoughts on this as guest post. 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. By Ben Duda.
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Four Strategies for Effective Nonprofit Volunteer Engagement and Programs
Qgiv
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
.” – Margaret Mead Working with volunteers and including them in your nonprofit’s strategy can be meaningful, challenging, and rewarding, all at the same time. These platforms allow volunteers to filter by cause, in-person or remote opportunities, whether a job is better suited for kids, young adults, or seniors, and more.
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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences
Whole Whale
JANUARY 1, 2023
Nonprofit conferences are finally coming out of the ZOOM rooms and the 2023 season for conferences are now being announced and planned. These cover all areas of the nonprofit sector, in the US and abroad. Top Nonprofit conferences for 2023. ANA DC Nonprofit Conference . 2023 is a unique time for conference-goers.
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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?
ASU Lodestar Center
JULY 13, 2021
Hager Associate Professor of Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Arizona State University. Results from my most recent Volunteer Management Capacity Study are now posted at the Association of Leaders in Volunteer Engagement (AL!VE) Is that the case for volunteer administration? VE) website. The world is moving fast.
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How can nonprofits leverage volunteer engagement strategies to maximize impact?
ASU Lodestar Center
MARCH 3, 2020
posted by Molly Wagge, Fall 2019 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Many charitable nonprofits rely on the help of volunteers to fulfill their missions. In order to cultivate volunteers to contribute in these ways, a strong foundational volunteer program must be in place.
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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic
Twenty Hats
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
So I think, in many ways, for as often as everybody complains about technology and all the challenges, I think this past year could have gone very differently if we didn’t have these platforms.” — Volunteer manager embracing technology in Ohio. Some manage a handful of volunteers, others work with many thousands.
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How can nonprofits successfully engage the next generation of donors?
ASU Lodestar Center
AUGUST 24, 2022
posted by Emily Santeler Fall 2021 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. The sustainability of the nonprofit sector relies on cultivating the next generation of donors. Millennials (born 1981-1995) engage differently with nonprofits and face more financial constraints than their predecessors.
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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a.
ASU Lodestar Center
MARCH 16, 2011
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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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 11, 2012
continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Most researchers agree that low-income earners volunteer less (Wilson, 2012) and Pho (2008) extended this finding to include medium-wage earners. As part of a.
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Research Friday: Corporate Volunteer Programs: Synergy in Business and Nonprofit Actions
ASU Lodestar Center
FEBRUARY 17, 2012
As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit professional to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. One such source, which is intensely under-cultivated, lies in the for-profit sector: the corporate volunteer.
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Nonprofit Data: The Case of NTEN
NTEN
JANUARY 7, 2013
NTEN’s IT Director Karl Hedstrom has been working with the organization’s dashboard since he first joined as an AmeriCorps Volunteer six years ago. An organization learns to identify outcomes, define indicators, and gather and report data to track its own effectiveness in the community. Chris Bernard. read more
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How can nonprofit organizations improve accountability to the populations they serve?
ASU Lodestar Center
AUGUST 28, 2017
posted by Natalia Winberry Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. As organizations serving public interests, nonprofits answer to the voices of multiple stakeholders. Among those surveyed, almost all of the nonprofit leaders indicated their organizations gathered client feedback (Buteau et al.,
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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access
Non Profit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2021
We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. Talking with Volunteer Administrators.
More tech for Pittsburgh's nonprofits through volunteers - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
AFP Blog
APRIL 1, 2013
More tech for Pittsburgh's nonprofits through volunteers - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : That's why Hands on Tech -- a program developed through a partnership of the volunteer organization Hands on Network, AmeriCorps VISTA and Google -- is working to help connect technology experts with organizations that need them most.
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Fighting for a cause
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 29, 2013
I recently completed a nonprofit internship, and it was a very difficult and challenging experience. I was in Alaska for the summer as an AmeriCorps Summer Crew Leader. I looked to many of my nonprofit leadership and management classes at ASU for insight. I also drove around and noticed a lot of nonprofits in the area.
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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice
Saleforce Nonprofit
OCTOBER 26, 2021
This lab will bring together leaders from across the nonprofit, government, and for-profit sectors to lend their expertise to ideate and co-design technology solutions to advance progress on this issue. For the last 20+ years, she has worked in management with and for nonprofit organizations. Executive Director, Valley Clean Air Now.
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Book Review: Cause for Change
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 22, 2013
Colleagues Kari Dunn Saratovsky and Derrick Feldmann have published a new book called Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement. The book is a great read for nonprofit leaders of all generations. I found the chapter about motivations and tips for encouraging Millennnials to volunteer very valuable.
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Nonprofit Management 101 Giveaway: One More Week to Enter!
Tech Soup
MAY 17, 2011
You have just one more week to enter our Nonprofit Management 101 giveaway. To enter, all you need to do is create a short video about what you've learned about nonprofit management in the past five years. Tell us what you've learned in the past five years about nonprofit management. How to Enter. Create a video.
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Q&A with Maggie Saucedo, a Public Ally and Certified Nonprofit Professional
ASU Lodestar Center
AUGUST 27, 2019
The PAAZ team reached out to someone who can speak about both: Class 13 Public Ally Magdelena “Maggie” Saucedo, who joined the program after graduating from ASU with a bachelor’s degree in Nonprofit Leadership and Management and earning the Certified Nonprofit Professional credential from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance.
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Upcoming Webinar November 7: Leverage Data for Mission-Driven Orgs
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 29, 2013
from web traffic, email newsletters, donors, volunteers, and other. Eastern) to learn about the turnkey solutions that SAP donates to nonprofits, and how they can help your organization manage and leverage data to more successfully meet your mission. Does your organization collect data. organization's needs? of data they gather.
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Life at Double the Donation | Meet the Team, Career Experience & More
Double the Donation
JANUARY 17, 2022
Our staff is made up of personable sales professionals, dedicated nonprofit onboarding specialists, brilliant software developers, devoted partnerships success experts, and more?—and Those dollars have a lot of potential to drive nonprofit missions forward, but unfortunately, they’re never claimed?—largely
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National Conference on Volunteering and Service: Tech Corps Will Boost Sector's Use of Technology
AFP Blog
JUNE 9, 2011
National Conference on Volunteering and Service: Tech Corps Will Boost Sector's Use of Technology : "Tech Corps Will Boost Sector's Use of Technology HandsOn Network, the volunteer arm of Points of Light Institute, is partnering with Google to create HandsOn Tech Corps, an initiative designed to increase the nonprofit sector’s effective use of (..)
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ASU Lodestar Center
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
posted by Rachelle Wayne 2018 Alumna, ASU BS in Nonprofit Leadership & Management and Class 12 Public Ally. I recognized there is so much to learn and understand about leadership in the nonprofit sector, so I decided I would join the leadership programs available at ASU. My name is Rachelle Wayne. I nurtured the relationship.
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ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 11, 2011
Disclaimer Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Fear not, nonprofit professionals! posted by Aaron Stiner , Senior Program Manager, Paths of HOPE, Catholic Charities I am at one of the most intense, rewarding, and sometimes frightening times in my nonprofit career. But fear not, nonprofit professionals! And I dont think Im alone.
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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: How to Start a Nonprofit Organization.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 1, 2011
Disclaimer Wednesday, June 1, 2011 How to Start a Nonprofit Organization: Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Make the Leap posted by Robert Duea , Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center and Pat Lewis , Senior Professional in Residence ASU Lodestar Center So, youre thinking about starting a nonprofit organization.
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The Neuroscience of Purpose: Recharging in the Nonprofit World
ASU Lodestar Center
NOVEMBER 29, 2011
Information Volunteer. Why this matters for those of us in the nonprofit world. If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. How my mother and AmeriCorps made me a better man" by Michael Soto. Peter Bonanno, M.Ed.
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'I Truly Believe That Education is the Antidote for Ignorance, Poverty and War'
ASU Lodestar Center
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
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.
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40 Volunteer Statistics That Will Blow Your Mind
Volunteer Hub
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Take a look at these 40 volunteer statistics…they will blow you away. The fact of the matter is without volunteerism nonprofit organizations cannot fulfill their mission and achieve their goals. The fact of the matter is without volunteerism nonprofit organizations cannot fulfill their mission and achieve their goals.
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Who's Behind That Voice on the Phone: Meet TechSoup Client Services
Tech Soup
OCTOBER 1, 2015
The nonprofit theaters he attends on a regular basis are the Berkeley Repertory Theatre , American Conservatory Theater (where Denzel Washington and Annette Bening got their start), and the Marin Theatre Company. Gina Frassetto is one of a number of people at TechSoup who have come to us from AmeriCorps or the Peace Corp.
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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 6, 2011
Disclaimer Friday, May 6, 2011 Research Friday: Take our fun quiz on the Arizona nonprofit sector! As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Nice quiz!
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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Making the Play: Successfully Engaging.
ASU Lodestar Center
JUNE 15, 2011
Disclaimer Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Making the Play: Successfully Engaging Youth Within the Nonprofit Sector posted by David "DJ" Heyward , American Humanics Student / Team MPhasis Coach Many of us in the nonprofit sector work specifically with children and young adults. How does your nonprofit organization engage youth?
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Tech Soup
JULY 9, 2010
This blog post was penned by Evonne Heyning , who works with TechSoup's Nonprofit Commons in Second Life and Community teams. At NCVS we had an extra laptop available to allow newcomers to create their Second Life avatars and demonstrate how to work together as we welcomed a new volunteer youth social media tech Markese to the team.
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