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. Or do what Planned Parenthood did and partner with local tattoo artists who may have a connection to your cause to donate a portion of their bookings to your organization.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 2, 2009
Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. Celebrities and rock stars are a big deal on MySpace.
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Have Fun - Do Good
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2009
If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. It takes a special kind of cook, artist, or scientist to want to support the contributions of novices.
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 19, 2015
Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. We start with the community and build to projects.
Amy Sample Ward
JUNE 21, 2011
Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. They thought, wouldn’t it be interseting to create a game to get people in the library who may not have ever come?
Museum 2.0
SEPTEMBER 20, 2011
We created Race Through Time in partnership with a local networking group called Santa Cruz Next , whose primary aim is to support and celebrate ways that young professionals can and are changing our community for the better. Performances just for teens. The event was oversold, and participants raved about the experience.
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