Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

The last big shift in search was the rise of mobile-first searches which overtook desktop searching by May of 2015 after technically being around since 1997. While nonprofits had a decade plus to prepare for mobile-first changes, chat-first changes will come far faster. Why will Chat-first search happen faster than Mobile-first search?

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

The last big shift in search was the rise of mobile-first searches which overtook desktop searching by May of 2015 after technically being around since 1997. While nonprofits had a decade plus to prepare for mobile-first changes, chat-first changes will come far faster. Why will Chat-first search happen faster than Mobile-first search?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Political Engagement and Activism. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Apps Made by Youth.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

As a general rule, donations pages should be simple, optimized for mobile giving, and ask for the minimal amount of information required to make a donation and to capture a donor’s contact information. If a nonprofit is not actively promoting thus growing their email list, then there’s a knowledge gap at that organization.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

The thing is activated by stomach acid, which functions like a chemical in a battery. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. Here’s the part I like.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Even if they aren’t actively peer-to-peer fundraising for your mission, it’s important that your entire membership is on the same page. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

SnapChat has been around for a few years, but I have not focused on it because as a babyboomer I’m not the target demographic. Snapcha t is a mobile app that lets users exchange text messages, photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours. Several years ago, I noticed that DoSomething.Org was actively experimenting on SnapChat.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. The good news is: there are thousands of sites serving free summer meals to low-income youth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Mobilize the people who already do. In a crisis, the most efficient thing you can train your community managers to do is to be active and be human. David Almacy, Senior Vice President at Edelman.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 23, 2019

Nearly 2/3 of teens use social media to inform their college decision. Is your website fully mobile optimized? If your site still requires someone to sit in front of a laptop for the best experience, you’ll shed all but the most motivated mobile phone users. Start the connection online. Deliver on your Promise to Educate.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Fitness challenges offer supporters a chance to give while engaging in physical activity.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Charge an entry fee to cover both a fun low-key activity (pub crawl, wine tasting, bowling league) and babysitting services and bring your community together.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Essentially, data is uploaded by a human rights activist via a mobile device, and Martus encrypts the data upload through the app. According to Higgins, the app is easy to use by anyone. Kyle Ferrar, a Ph.D.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group. Community mobilization and engagement in this century defaults to high-end digital, and in so doing, excludes the 100 million Americans without a Smartphone. Digital Activism? We need to go deeper.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. Your event website serves as an online landing point for your event and therefore, should also host a hub for your social media activities. Read the white paper on Making Event Participants More Successful with Social Media Tools.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

It might seem scary that the future of the nonprofit sector will soon be in the hands of teens and college graduates who seem to only care about whatever is displayed on the screen of their smartphone or tablet. The Statistics: Generation Y gives 62% through their mobile phones. Generation Y gives 47% through a nonprofit’s website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

After a decade of embracing new social networks as they rise in popularity, in recent weeks it became clear that it was time to reassess the value of being active on so many social networks and to prioritize the social networks that most benefit Nonprofit Tech for Good. Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This is the first time we've had an ongoing activity with a lot of materials (Memory Jars). We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Major funders are interested in Second Life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. " I thought to myself, now that's a list I'd like to see.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Oh the hours!! It was AMAZING.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Oh the hours!! It was AMAZING.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

Snapchat is a mobile app where users share snaps with one another, but unlike other visual social networks, the snaps disappear once they are viewed. Launched in 2011, many nonprofits have been hesitant to experiment with a mobile social network where content disappears and where no traditional “Follow” functionality exists.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 26, 2014

By the time my mom was at the Bay Area Discovery Museum, I was in my late teens/twenties, and I started to know the board socially, including Bob Fisher, who is now very involved with SFMOMA. What are some of the ways that you saw organizations addressing this mobility of donors and prospects? I’ve known Bob for 15 years now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

This year, we fundraised for Grassroot Soccer —an organization that leverages the power of soccer to educate, inspire, and mobilize at-risk youth in developing countries—and exceeded our $60,000 goal and raised a total of $72,000. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Make it more personal to you (i.e.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2015

million teen activists who had opted in to giving the organization their cell phone numbers and emails. The message was intended for Jewish teens who volunteering to collect canned goods during Thanksgiving for a Jewish organization. We also didn’t segment according to activity or demographics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

The idea there is a partnership where we will cultivate up to five acres of land, and have a real, sort of larger farm, an extension of our urban activity on a peri-urban basis, on the periphery of the urban area. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

will have the opportunity to earn a spot on the GlobalGiving website if they mobilize supporters to raise $4,000 from at least 50 unique donors. Brian talks about how those of us active in the real-time Web experience an evaporation of attention span and our ability to digest and respond to everything that moves us. blog here and here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

With 93 percent of teens online, 80 percent using social media, and 87 percent sleeping with their phones nearby – technology was a key option to helping find a solution. The winning app, LifeSense, lets users record their activities and moods so they can see how they compare to other users in their peer group.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

Club Penguin is subscription-based and purely on the web; Webkinz requires the purchase of a plush toy (with an active virtual life). They love the way it fuels their desire to quickly jump from one activity to the next. Chances are if you know a kid between 6 and 12, you know a kid who uses Club Penguin or Webkinz , or both.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Mobile-responsive design. Create Amazing looks, well, amazing on the big screen, but the landing page’s full-width layout and high-quality video loop still work just as well on tablets and mobile devices. Key Takeaway: Your nonprofit’s website should actively highlight your work’s impact. Streamlined navigation.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. They’re probably on mobile, maybe they’re on iOS. They know what’s going to resonate with their audience, and get them motivated, and get them mobilized. Put it on TikTok, wherever it is that you are active. Where are they?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Vince Stehle of Surdna was present, along with Chris Gates of PACE ( Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement ); and there were some grassroots organizers such as ACORN in breakout sessions. As an example of this new approach he highlighted how Obama’s speech in Cairo was translated live and broadcast on TV, the Internet, and mobile phones.

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