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How Can We Support Kids Who Want to Create Change?

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Watch this adorable video on TakePart.com of 5th Grader, Damon Weaver, interviewing President Obama. If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Need a little pick me up today? How do you handle it?" Here are a few ideas: 1. Volunteer with them.

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Vote Today, Watch on Thanksgiving: 2009 CNN Heroes

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You can watch videos about each hero, and learn more about their stories on the 2009 CNN Heroes voting page. Personally, I voted for Betty Makoni (pictured left), because I was moved when I read her story in Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark , and when I heard her story again while interviewing Paola for the Big Vision Podcast.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

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And if you have not heard, I have a podcast, “Let’s Take This Offline,” and you can go ahead and binge listen while you do your running, or your walking, or you’re sitting lakeside this summer, kind of decompressing from a really hellish year. I’ll drop the video. Do y’all know what that is?

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

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It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. 15th including a session on using Machinima to create political and social change videos. "Do young people have email accounts?

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. vlogging, and podcasting). This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago.

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How Your Nonprofit Can Reach Babyboomers with Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I told the story about posting a video interview with my dad (who was 86 at the time) on YouTube about his first blog post and how I discovered a community of "older" people using YouTube. Boomers are still not involved heavily in writing blog articles or creating videos and posting them online. I answered no.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

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Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. They launched an annual fundraiser and gift-collecting drive for the children's hospital in their community (in WA).