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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Porter’s Call is a place where artists can find counsel, support, and encouragement, specifically attuned to their unique profession. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Conversate. Impacting: Mental health.

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. Teens As Free Agents.

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The Great Good Place Book Discussion Part 3: Pockets of Third Places

Museum 2.0

This is the third installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 I was excited to read The Great Good Place and see how we could do more of this. The bottom line is that PARTS of our building are very much third places.

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What You Need to Know About Threads

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Like Twitter, Threads is a text-based app for conversational social media posts. Hashtags so that users can make their content more findable and better organize conversations. Additionally, internal leaks from Instagram have shown that the platform is aware that it can be harmful to young teens, especially young women.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

A fundraising email is not the right place to thank Board members, reflect on events that already happened, spotlight a wonderful volunteer, or highlight a major donor. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. That means you may need to leave out a few things. You can edit later.

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How Gen Z Donors Harness the Power of Online Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. They’re shaking up convention and putting a post-millennial twist on how we do business, connect with others, and create conversations. Helping Your Teen Give Back.

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The CNN Lesson: There Is No Hiding on The Real-Time Web

Care2

They are examples of organizations that have been caught in the middle of a firestorm and don’t have the necessary policies in place to manage an online crisis immediately after it erupts. What do news organizations like CNN and health advocacy organizations like the Susan G. Komen Foundation have in common?

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