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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

While generation Z is not yet influential on your fundraising campaigns, nonprofits that work in education, child services, and youth empowerment should be laying a foundation now for future outreach. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens.

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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Your audience isn’t only using social media during the 9am – 5pm work day. Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. Previously she worked in communications at Orchestra of St.

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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. " Powered by CDI , Apps for Good is working with youth in the UK to teach them how to. As a 2010 winner. fruit in cities around the country that is working with Asiya Wadud's. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens.

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How Minnesota’s ‘Networked Nonprofits’ Raised over $10M in 1 Day!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: Last year I covered Give to the Max Day and the impressive results. This year before the event Jeff Achen write a post sharing their strategy for 2010. This guest post discusses the results. percent of respondents said social media worked best for promoting Give to the Max Day. We have a lot of work left to do.

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Thank You To the Max: Minnesota Give to Max Day Raised $13.4 Million in 24 Hours

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010. We gained 203 new Twitter followers in the month of November. Multiple answers were acceptable). 79 percent of respondents were female.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

We all look similar in our sweatshirts, and the mission and goals of our work — to do good service, to help others, to create change — unite us even more. Yet I think that that's the real beauty and power of this work. The work that we do matters. Which is also what makes this work hard. Now you can find out!

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Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? What is your objective? Who is the target audience? How will you measure success?

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