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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. Children for Children Foundation. Youth in Philanthropy.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

Thanks to global entertainers like Lady Gaga and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and world-class athletes like Kevin Love and Simone Biles, there’s already a shift toward candid public conversations, making mental health far less stigmatized than ever. Less than half of all Americans with a mental disorder actually get the treatment they need.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

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Encourage them to give up that habit for a certain time (could be a month or even longer, like the entirety of Lent). This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. You could challenge your congregants to climb a flight of stairs 20 times then donate to your church.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

How will you grab the attention of your donors when their inbox is already full and they barely have time to read what’s already there? For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Writing fundraising emails is not hard, it just takes time and attention to detail.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. As the MathAndCoding founders refined their processes and logistics, Bricker grew more confident in letting them move on to offer more advanced classes.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Recent reports have alluded to class and race divisions between MySpace and Facebook users. MySpace is not dangerous.

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