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Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser

The Modern Nonprofit

to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month. Individual holidays don’t have to be the only source of inspiration for your next fundraiser.

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Teens As Free Agents. One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! ” Philantroteens.

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5 Ways Hands On Nashville Rocked The Music City on #GivingTuesday

Connection Cafe

This week we’re talking #bikesandbakedgoods (a winning combination), and how Hands On Nashville used #GivingTuesday to create local impact – with 5 fundraising ideas to help you rock your next campaign. They used the #GivingTuesday movement as a springboard for this year-end campaign, and in just 2 hours they reached over 20% of their goal.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. The mother from Missouri that pretended to be a teen boy and cyberbullied a young girl to the point where she committed suicide.Tragic yes, but MySpace’s fault? If your organization is trying to reach teens, absolutely!

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34 Clever Summer Fundraising Ideas

Whole Whale

You can use a Facebook event, Eventbrite or a simple campaign site like splashthat. 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. Outdoor Music Festival. Canva is a great tool for designing images.

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Giving the Gift of Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

: • I hope you'll pass on to the donor that I, for one, couldn't have received a nicer gift than a book I can read in braille, in my comfy reclining loveseat, to the melodies of soft classical music, a lilac candle burning, diet cream soda within reach (.), Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America 4.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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