Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

TechSoup wrote up this post based on some very early innovators in 2013, but still only a handful of nonprofits had established a presence. Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013. Booster launched its first campaign in 2013. Co-Disruptor: YouCaring.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Read all about how the Orange County Library System in Florida is teaching teens how to use MakerBot printers and flight simulators as well as other technology skills. 2013 winner, Missing Treatment , is a tool through which individuals can report when vital, and government-promised medicines do not arrive in their local pharmacies.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Transgender teen Ali Forney fled his home at age 13. In 2013, the center served 1,400 clients — offering 20,000 services and serving 150,000 meals to youth ranging in age from 16 to 24. He bounced from foster home to foster home before ultimately ending up on the streets. Forney was murdered in 1997.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

But when we started hosting formal community visioning workshops in 2013 with the Project for Public Spaces, we heard other opinions of downtown. We empowered a teen intern to make a video featuring MAH visitors to generate support for the project (shown at the top of this post).

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

It might seem scary that the future of the nonprofit sector will soon be in the hands of teens and college graduates who seem to only care about whatever is displayed on the screen of their smartphone or tablet. In 2013, more than 219,000 people participated and raised nearly $23 million.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2014

Here are a few posts to get you thinking about platforms you may not yet be using: A Primer on Social Media Demographics in 2013 from Business Insider. Here’s Where Teens are Going Instead of Facebook from Forbes. 2013 Mobile Growth Stats (infographic) from digitalbuzz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 Look out world! Fundraising'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Ironically, my referral traffic from Pinterest is still high, but that’s due to a small number of pins that I posted in 2013 and 2014 that rank high in Pinterest search results. Unlike many teens, tweens, and Milllennials, I did not enjoy using Tumblr. The vast majority of the pins I posted in 2015 never gained traction.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

Engineering in November 2013. I personally have developed fantastic relationships with members of my EMBA cohort at the Bloch School of Management (class of 2013) that are going to last a lifetime. Question : What leadership skill did you learn as a teen that you still use today? Daniels : Lead by example.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

In 2014, California Family Health Council (CFHC) launched its TeenSource Multi-Media Peer Educators program so that teens themselves could educate their peers in California on safe sex, relationships, and their health rights. In 2013, CFA tackled a range of community problems through technology while keeping people and users at the center.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. So they started a partnership with Arrow and campaign called “ Teens for Jeans.”. At DoSomething, they were getting text messages back from teens.

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