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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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Paying Volunteers A Stipend: Does It Work?

ASU Lodestar Center

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Volunteers received stipend support from several sources, including federal AmeriCorps programs, private foundations and school districts. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D. Professor and Director. of Academic Programs. ASU Lodestar Center.

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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. Annette is a student in the Master of Nonprofit Studies program at ASU.

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American Rescue Plan Act: Impact on Nonprofits and Other Social Good Organizations

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Employee Retention Tax Credit. The American Rescue Plan Act also includes an extension of the Employee Retention Tax Credit, which was created through the CARES Act, through December 31, 2021. The Employee Retention Tax Credit is a refundable payroll tax credit for wages paid by employers to employees during the COVID-19 crisis.

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