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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab. technological solution.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile. MySpacers are incredibly loyal.

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

Qgiv

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. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Craft parties.

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

Qgiv

Qgiv offers a mobile suite where you can not only send texts but also track the progress of your peer-to-peer campaign. Use a mobile donation app to encourage giving on the go. Givi is a dedicated mobile donation app by Qgiv that empowers members to give to the organization that they’d like.

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

Qgiv

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. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Craft parties.

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Nonprofits Live: Gaming Recap

Tech Soup

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Joseph followed with some examples of how Global Kids creatively uses games to engage youth to learn and teach others. Civic Tripod for Real-World Games and Mobile. Planning Your Game. The Cost of Development.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.” American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group.

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