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2023 Top Nonprofit Conferences

Whole Whale

Where : Denver, Colorado & virtual conference. Join us for Collaborative: Virtual Sessions and on Classy’s virtual event platform, Classy Live. . Many organizations involved in the old Hands-On Points of Light and AmeriCorps networks. Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). When : April 12-14, 2023. Website : [link].

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

On the other hand, in this age of electronic networking and virtual technology, we shouldn’t say that the volunteers disappeared. And while most volunteering is traditionally in-person and face-to-face, many organizations have been hosting virtual volunteer assignments for several decades. federal government agency.

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Volunteer administration: What has changed in recent decades?

ASU Lodestar Center

What’s fairly new (or newly prominent) is volunteering assignments conducted entirely virtually or remotely. In our 2019 survey, we learned that nearly one in eight volunteers (12.3%) qualified as “virtual volunteers.”. We went from one-in-eight virtual volunteers to virtually everybody working remotely.

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Guest Post: Stories of Volunteer Managers, Technology, and the Pandemic

Twenty Hats

They wanted to help students and teachers who were teaching from home that needed curriculum ideas and ways to engage their students in this new virtual environment.”. In other cases, virtual technologies helped programs hold onto the volunteer base they already had. It wasn’t! It was their employees in Chicago and Atlanta.

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Why Volunteers Quit: How to Retain Them

Volunteer Hub

According to AmeriCorps, the national average volunteer retention rate is 65%. Your organization can also reach a wider range of potential volunteers by offering virtual volunteer opportunities for tasks that can be accomplished anywhere. There are many reasons why a volunteer may stop giving their time.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

One person we spoke with described the sudden adjustments at her food bank: We had never used a platform virtually before. In the spring and summer of 2021, with funding from AmeriCorps, our research team held focus groups with volunteer administrators about their technology use in the pandemic. Who are these people we talked with?

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

sgEngage

However, you actually began your career working in social good as a White House Fellow focused on the Corporation for National and Community Service and AmeriCorps Promise Fellows programs. What made you decide to take the helm at NMAAM and return as a social good leader in a professional capacity? A: Technology ties us all together.

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