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What’s a Service Enterprise and why should I care?

Great question!  And we’ve got a great answer.

According to Reimagining Service, a national movement to build the impact of volunteering and service:

“A Service Enterprise is an organization that fundamentally leverages volunteers and their skills to successfully deliver on the social mission of the organization.”

Sounds simple enough – but research shows only 15% of our nation’s nonprofits are, in fact, Service Enterprises.  So what sets these organizations apart from the other 85%?

This same research,…

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A Bridge Between Military Service Veterans and Disaster Response

On Monday, November 12th, Volunteer LA brought two different-but-related worlds together when volunteer members of the Emergency Volunteer Center team, primarily made up of veteran service members, came together for a five-hour exercise on activation of an Emergency Volunteer Center (EVC) and the management of spontaneous volunteers.

Our Emergency Volunteer Center (EVC) program supports emergency response officials following a disaster by effectively and efficiently managing spontaneous volunteers. The EVC is designed to register those who want to volunteer to help…

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