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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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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

To celebrate 21 years i of grantmaking data, we’re taking a look back at how far we’ve come and how we’ve evolved over the years. 2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. And this year, it enters full-fledged adulthood! private and community foundations.

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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. MySpace is reflection of the society in which we live. 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?

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Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Even though for many of the participants, Ze is a celebrity of epic proportions, he did everything he could to make the event about them and their engagement and not about him.

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How Nonprofit Leaders Create An Authentic Personal Brand on Intsagram

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Genuine: It reflects their character, behavior, values, and vision. He shares photos and reflections from business trips. Take for example this shot of fireworks and the accompanying reflection. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. Here’s what I discovered: Genuine.

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Why I Blog

Museum 2.0

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. It is this community--you--that I want to reflect a bit more on.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors. We hope you will share your voice with the world!