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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

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Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Youth Homes.

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

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Check out the 124 NTEN Members participating in Giving Tuesday below. Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Learning Science by Design.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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How to Source Great Year-end Stories

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Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. Your brain naturally becomes more skeptical when you hear facts first. Your brain gets absorbed in the story and it drops its guard. That’s why every culture uses storytelling to pass down vital traditions and values.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron.

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Fundraising 101: Understand the Basics of Fundraising so You Can Fund Your Dream

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It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. Do they have children? If they are families with children, seek out events with activities for kids. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is.