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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. 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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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

households experienced food insecurity in 2012, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% That's 3.9

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Research Friday: The Self-Sufficiency Standard

ASU Lodestar Center

The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants. The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Arizona 2012 , is a comprehensive, user-friendly tool that can be used by agencies and individuals to help Arizona’s families make real progress toward economic security.

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YMCA of Greater Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. Installation Date: Dec 7, 2012. It is one of 200 program sites in this very large and active YMCA.

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5 Ways Libraries Support Disaster Relief and Recovery

Tech Soup

Since the New Orleans Public Library's bookmobile was no longer operational, Copel starting driving around a tricycle (and then later, a book bus) with free books for children and teens of all ages. She also started a community garden that holds events with food and literacy programs.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As CEO Brad Damphousse explained to TechCrunch in 2012, the company’s growth was “due to the maturation of payment processing — allowing individual users to accept credit card payments — as well as social platforms like Facebook, which tie campaigns to identity and link them to people users know.”. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2012.