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Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

The third guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is by Jen Louden. 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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills. Their website, freshBrain.org , provides a social networking based platform where teens can innovate, create and share using a variety of technologies.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was so happy to hear the story of how the event got started and the beginning of the network from Fernanda Bornhausen Sa. The presentation is in the form of a network map – so you can tell that they already approach their social change work with a network lens. I had a lot of fun with my keynote. Un Foundation.

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HOW TO: Launch a Mobile Photo-Sharing Campaign for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DailyBooth has a great layout, a built-in social networking component, and Facebook and Twitter integration, but uploading mobile photos can only be done through text messaging and their iPhone app (hopefully an Android version is coming soon). That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. have some fun with it.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Top 5 Tips to Build Your Fundraising Event Committee

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Think about all the teens that need community service hours!) You can also use your event committee to generate buy-in from your community by leveraging your volunteers’ networks. Networking. Networking is part of success in nearly every industry and can be a great way to find committed volunteers.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Peer-to-peer fundraising is a social fundraising tactic that relies on the personal networks of your supporters. You might even offer fun prizes to your top peer-to-peer participants like getting to dunk the youth pastor! Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition! Download eBook.