Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I don''t usually share personal stories here on Have Fun, Do Good, and I''m not sure where this is going, but I''m giving it a whirl. I''m exploring the roots of my desire/need/compulsion to "do good." Here''s the link to my first post, Why Do You Do Good? In 1975, when I was five, we moved from Vermont to Mystic, CT.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. An easy first Snap would be a picture of your nonprofit’s location with a Geofilter, then add text to declare that this is your first Snap and add some Stickers for fun and then share.

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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. Encourage the youth group to take part in fundraising. Worship concerts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

One of the places I go for inspiration during my day is to the books , blog , podcast, and Twitter feed of Kimberly Wilson. Kimberly has authored two books: Hip Tranquil Chick: A Guide to Life On and Off the Yoga Mat , and Tranquilista: Mastering the Art of Enlightened Work and Mindful Play. We came up with our first program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

It was no frills; when my sisters & I suffered our teen angst-y issues or had drama there were no ‘ Full House ’ type moments. So instead of explaining the textbook definitions I thought it would be fun to rephrase them, a ‘la my mom’s style. Growing up, my mom had this wonderfully blunt but loving way of parenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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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. Encourage the youth group to take part in fundraising. Worship concerts.

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Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 52

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Personally, I voted for Betty Makoni (pictured left), because I was moved when I read her story in Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark , and when I heard her story again while interviewing Paola for the Big Vision Podcast. Even if you don't get a chance to vote, you can still watch the show on Thanksgiving.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Last week I hosted a little contest to win a copy of Darius Graham's book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World. I picked Nancy 's name out of a hat this morning ( I really did use a hat), so Darius will be mailing her a free copy of the book!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Does that sound like a fun and rewarding casual activity to you? But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.” And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

This week, thoughts on Chapter 12 of Elaine Gurian’s book Civilizing the Museum , "Threshold Fear: Architecture program planning." The New York Hall of Science’s Career Ladder successfully recruits and advances neighborhood teens as floor explainers, and their full-time staff includes many people who have come “up through the ranks.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over. They've got it expertly set up so that you can purchase exactly the toys/books that the hospitals want through Amazon.com and have them shipped directly to the hospital. Free Books for Kids!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Get ready to throw out the book on promoting Facebook Causes. The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

For the holidays, she has hosted a kindergarten "angel" party where the kids were "angel donors" for families in need, depositing their unwrapped toys and gifts as admittance to the fun. Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Referral traffic is high from Twitter and Facebook, and although referral traffic from Instagram isn’t possible (unless you are willing to spend a small fortune on Instagram advertising), the high level of engagement and rapid growth and the simple fun of using the app ensured its placement as a top priority for 2016.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This week, a look at the third section of Visitor Voices , the excellent book coedited by Kathy McLean and Wendy Pollock. In these and other examples (the Walker Art Center's new teen site comes to mind), the museum specifically sets up a site in a way that is not most comfortable, useful, or familiar to the museum staff. Not for us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. The book, The Geography of Bliss discovered that one of the common factors among people in "happy countries" is a sense of trust. Effective sites and campaigns provide space for people to express themselves. The Yes We Can Obama video.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Fun fact: she's also a competitive Scrabble player. Do you love ladies in literature? Sheroes in the Sciences. Gertrude B. Roxane Gay.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. Why should the staff have all the fun in this way? The irritating design? Or is it the stalkers?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Once you get a few speaking gigs under your belt, you will find speaking opportunities even easier to book and to do without feeling nervous. Just for fun, here’s an extra strategy! In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

The conference will showcase NTEN's new book about mission-driven technology. Steve Heye has been blogging chapters in the book for the past few weeks. The Hierachy of Distractions : Just for fun! Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. NTEN has two fantastic events this month!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2007

Mexico: Lydia Cacho, a journalist whose book, Los Demonios de Eden (Demons of Eden) , about a pedophile ring in Cancun, has put her life in danger. United States: Dr. Angela Diaz, the Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center in East Harlem, who went to the Center as a teen.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

If you are considering replacing comment books or cards with digital kiosks, why put the kiosk online and use a system that will allow visitors to vote for others' suggestions, comment on new ideas, join conversations with staff about opportunities, see which suggestions have been adopted by the institution? They are having conversations.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

Author of two books, one just came out last February. And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. We’ll talk about shiny new tools, and we’ll talk about all the fun things, and there’s going to be mentions of TikTok, and Twitch, and live streaming. It’s actually really, really fun.

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