Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

They even got to meet Keo Savon, the young Cambodian women that we are sending to college by donating the royalties from my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” to the Sharing Foundation. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries. Generation X (Born 1965–1979, Currently Ages 35–49).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

It is the same title of Raine’s recent book. The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

@ kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/. I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. p/QTTfRJlZjl/. p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

We came up with a book wishlist for donors who wanted to pitch in and buy specific books requested by Bookshare members. One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Pavi • What a great present!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Note from Beth: My friend Porter Gale has just launched a new book called “ Your Network is Net Worth.” Her book shares the secrets of how to do this. In my book, Your Network Is Your Net Worth , I share several stories that demonstrate the potential impact of mentoring. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

This is the third installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. As I left the building I was met with over a hundred teens hanging out, laughing and talking in this space. What do you think?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 21, 2007

We've been getting regular updates from our volunteer scanning crew, who have chopped, scanned, OCR'd, paginated and are now doing the final prep work to release the newest Harry Potter book to the Bookshare.org community. Within the hour, it should be available for download.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Is the need for more beds seasonal? And if you aren’t active, get active!)

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

For each book each child reads, sponsors donate a set amount to that child’s personal fundraising page. It’s important to note that this works best for elementary school children, especially in earlier age groups so they can read multiple short children’s books to maximize fundraising potential. 5K/10K Race.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2014

Meet Katie: When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, my job was to host learning opportunities for teen girls. Shortly after we met, I hosted a lock-in for 300 teen girls, focusing on developing strong self-esteem. She has created a coloring book for children born with cleft lips and palates. Katie attended.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Volunteer with them.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

Her daughter has required volunteer hours at her school; she may be a good prospect for our teen volunteer program.” The organization may ask for a donation to restore a reading room and then name it in her honor, possibly even featuring a display of her books. “Donna, mid-30s, is an author who is married with a daughter.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

This is the third in a series of posts about Paul Light's book Sustaining Innovation: Creating Nonprofit and Government Organizations that Innovate Naturally. This post features an interview with Sarah Schultz, a museum staffer at one of the institutions Light profiled in the book (the Walker Art Center).

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Or do what Planned Parenthood did and partner with local tattoo artists who may have a connection to your cause to donate a portion of their bookings to your organization.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Books they might want to read? This is an appropriate place to state that your organization does not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. What is the minimum age required to volunteer with this organization? Is proof of age required?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good After reading my friend Keri Smith's book The Guerilla Art Kit , my 16-year-old daughter Lillian decided it would be delish to write little-bitty love notes and plaster them all over our tiny town. She's just started a one year experiment in savoring and serving the world.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Encourage the youth group to take part in fundraising. Worship concerts.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . When the donor opened the email, it explained that the school was celebrating Curl Up With A Good Book Day, a day devoted to reading and writing. Now , right now, and right away are great words that convey urgency without costing you a lot of characters. By midnight !

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Staffers also let people from outside of Saskatoon check out books from the library and access other services. The library holds more than 5,000 books and is open to the community every Saturday. She also started a community garden that holds events with food and literacy programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

It was during this time, when I was 15 or 16, that I wrote the Bishop to say that I thought it was wrong that the 11 o''clock Mass couldn''t meet in The Center, which is why I wouldn''t be getting confirmed along with the other teens in the parish. He wrote back a not very nice letter explaining why I was wrong. I chose not to be confirmed.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2007

Welcome to the first installment of the Visitor Voices book club. Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!), Chris Lawrence writes about one group of teens who addressed the Society directly as a "you" embodying white privilege. When a comment book? How often does your enemy acknowledge you?

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

She loves to read and it will be great for her to be able to keep so many books with her. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? An iPhone or iPod Touch is too small for her to get much use out of the keyboard with her fine motor challenges. She can write with Pages. We will turn parental controls on.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

She loves to read and it will be great for her to be able to keep so many books with her. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? An iPhone or iPod Touch is too small for her to get much use out of the keyboard with her fine motor challenges. She can write with Pages. We will turn parental controls on.

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Tech Calendar Ipod YouTube 100

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Last week I hosted a little contest to win a copy of Darius Graham's book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World. I picked Nancy 's name out of a hat this morning ( I really did use a hat), so Darius will be mailing her a free copy of the book!

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Personally, I voted for Betty Makoni (pictured left), because I was moved when I read her story in Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark , and when I heard her story again while interviewing Paola for the Big Vision Podcast. Even if you don't get a chance to vote, you can still watch the show on Thanksgiving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. Students are stressed and overwhelmed when facing questions about tuition, loans, housing, books, and classes–not to mention the personal stressors they’re experiencing as they transition to this next chapter of life. Start the connection online.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

It was no frills; when my sisters & I suffered our teen angst-y issues or had drama there were no ‘ Full House ’ type moments. aka Inclusiveness) We all have those friends who just seem to know everyone & have their social calendars booked months in advance. You have waaaay too many friends. It seems exhausting.

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