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AmeriCorps Announces 2023 Volunteer Generation Fund Grants Competition

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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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Why Volunteers Quit: How to Retain Them

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According to AmeriCorps, the national average volunteer retention rate is 65%. Because your organization relies on the support of volunteers, it is critical to try and optimize volunteer retention rates. In order to optimize volunteer retention rates, you need to understand what is causing volunteers to quit in the first place.

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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Stipends in volunteer service: Inclusion, retention, and volunteer benefits, Public Administration Review, 71:6, 850-858. All the volunteers were working as tutors in local elementary schools.

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How can nonprofits leverage volunteer engagement strategies to maximize impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits should consider engaging volunteers as leaders, donors, and advocates to grow their commitment to the organization, boost retention, and build organizational capacity. Implementing strategic engagement initiatives designed to leverage the assets of volunteers expands a nonprofit’s ability to maximize its social impact.

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Book Review: Cause for Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Focus on the 3 R’s (Recruitment, Retention, and Recognition). While there are fantastic platforms for nonprofits to recruit volunteers, they have make the experience an engaging one for this generation in order to transform them into champions and supporters. The book offers some advice: Provide experiences based on skills.

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Research Friday: Corporate Volunteer Programs: Synergy in Business and Nonprofit Actions

ASU Lodestar Center

Many volunteer managers cite recruitment as their greatest challenge; however, Brudney and Meijs (2009) contend that “the preoccupation with recruitment distracts attention and resources from the management and retention of volunteers” (p. She previously served a term for AmeriCorps with an adult literacy program in Flagstaff.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kelcie Tacchi is serving as an AmeriCorps Knowledge Management VISTA (Volunteers In Service To America) at Wyman Center. Also, explicitly show your audience specific technology your organization is utilizing, and what information is being stored in each system. How does your organization learn and share knowledge? Guest Post'

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