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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

A report from the Center for Expanding Leadership & Opportunity (CELO) and The Allstate Foundation explores how Gen Z is expanding the definition of “community service” and seeking to maximize impact—for themselves and the communities they serve. reported for “informal helping.”

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

Twenty Hats

We started with a survey this past winter: those results are summarized in this report. It was their employees in Chicago and Atlanta. We asked volunteer managers across the US and Canada how they used technology to engage volunteers during the pandemic. It wasn’t!

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How can nonprofits effectively recruit and retain high-performing employees?

ASU Lodestar Center

At the sector level, reports have provided data and recommendations; unfortunately, many of these ideas have not been implemented effectively into the field.”. It is apparent that the nonprofit sector is going through a time of difficulties and change when it comes to recruiting and retaining employees.

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fanton: "Our first instinct was to create an island and a replica of our office building in Chicago and announce ourselves. Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. A report about the event from Hastac. We got advice not to do that. What's your advice?

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How Angelica Ross and TransTech Address the Unique Needs of Transgender People of Color

Tech Soup

According to Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey , published by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National LGBTQ Task Force: Transgender people are four times more likely to live in poverty. Angelica Ross founded TransTech Social Enterprises less than a year ago in Chicago.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. I had written many business reports, nothing else. Fortunately, the Field Museum in Chicago mounted an exhibit of the photographs for In Her Hands. At each step, I have been learning.