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4 Reasons to Embrace Gen-Mix Volunteerism

VQ Strategies

Pre-pandemic, Boomers (born pre-1965) and Gen X (born 1965-1980) could boast the highest volunteer rates, and Millennials (born 1981-1996) outpaced any previous generation in volunteering. However, according to research by Points of Light , post-pandemic Gen Z (those born 1997-2010) are more likely to volunteer.

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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. Nhuong also received some good questions from his post over at MySpace: "the organization usually gets most of the money. All the fundraising is done in the US on a volunteer basis. He quickly found me on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal.

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Guest Post by Katherine Hutt: A Small Nonprofit's Strategy for Pepsi Refresh Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Generations of Hope is one of 189 organizations going for February’s two top prizes of $250,000. It’s really about having a great idea and being a good community organizer.”

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

Some of our best volunteers come from the County court referral system. And that means we get volunteers who are A. We've hired amazing people out of this unorthodox volunteer pipeline. As we developed new 3rd Friday community festivals , we were careful to design them as intergenerational experiences.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Our programs bond our collaborators by closely co-creating programs with community organizations which strengthens their individual internal connections and their relationship to the MAH. We scaffold levels of participatory experiences at events that are intergenerational, multidisciplinary and appeal to different types of learners.

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