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5 Hybrid Event Ideas for Youth Organizations

Qgiv

For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. Livestreaming technology and video tools make it easy to broadcast performances to people all over the world. Conclusion.

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4 Takeaways from #AG2014 Social Media

Connection Cafe

Take a look at how Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte puts this practice into place with their photo of a young teen purchasing baby supplies in anticipation of the birth of his daughter, who inspired him to graduate high school and pursue a college degree.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Ready to enter?

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." And most contemporary museums are not only places for information-seeking. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Many of the teens write, "learn with us.

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

I’m thinking of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, which is trying to be a museum for people, but is also a national and collection-based place. So many science and children’s museums—client-centered places—feel the same. The question you have to ask is: who are the people who have issues with what they are doing? Outside the U.S.

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How DoSomething Transformed A Mistake Into Learning: Creating A Culture of Impact

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Now we make sure to run all broadcasts (even the small ones) through our content team.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

As the first woman, first Jamaican-American, and the first Indian-American attorney general in California, Harris secured her place in political history. Elizabeth Cowell was British broadcaster and the first female announcer to grace the television airways for the BBC in 1936, just before the network launched its television service.

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