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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

This Mental Health Awareness Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Adolescent Counseling Services. Colorado Mental Wellness Network.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Unlease Your Organizations Knowledge Sharing Processes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Be aware that “knowledge hoarding” is often a common practice. The key takeaway here is awareness and communication is key- throughout the entire process.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Here are some scenarios in which peer-to-peer fundraising could benefit your faith-based organization: Help raise money and awareness for an upcoming project. Increase awareness on relevant issues. How will sponsors be able to engage with event attendees in a virtual environment? What credentials will they need to get in?

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. These are complex learning environments where young people are making decisions, learning and collaborating with peers, etc. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. It isn't entertainment.

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Notes from The Seven Things Everyone Wants: What Freud and Buddha Understood (and We're Forgetting) about Online Outreach

Have Fun - Do Good

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. Two of their staff members recently returned from Darfur and are putting together a video to raise awareness about it. Effective sites and campaigns provide space for people to express themselves. It is the most popular part of the site.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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