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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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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

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. Say your church is celebrating its 20 th anniversary. Fitness challenges.

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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. My guess is that is has something to do with the fact that African Americans and Latinos use their mobile phones regularly to access social networking sites, and there are a lot of African Americans and Latinos on MySpace. Apples and oranges.

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Text-to-Give TweetChat Recap

Tech Soup

Mobile phone ownership is reaching a critical mass worldwide. To begin with, the aforementioned high open rate applies to donor bases that might be otherwise hard to reach, such as teens and seniors. Most people bring their phones with them everywhere , making it easy to tap into the potential impulse nature of giving.

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Is Your Nonprofit Too Old To Barf Rainbows on Snapchat?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The experts say that if you are over 24, you will not get it — and so I was relieved that it was SnapChat, not me and that my technical skills had suddenly disappeared like a snap. Thank god there are teenage YouTube celebrities who share excellent SnapChat tutorials like Aaron’s Break the Internet.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

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. Say your church is celebrating its 20 th anniversary. Fitness challenges.

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