Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

These potential donors are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Pando Projects is a nonprofit that empowers people—in particular Millennials—to step up as leaders and develop new, local solutions to the problems in their communities. The initiative seeks to support ordinary people in accomplishing extraordinary things by helping them to tackle national and global challenges.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

That’s why the longevity of youth development organizations is so important! As a fundraiser for a youth development organization, you’re likely aware of how hard it is for kids to contain their energy. You could also incorporate challenges that participants must submit photo or video proof of to complete.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

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. Doron runs a youth development program called FoodWhat in Santa Cruz County, California. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Shut themselves down.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. How often should you develop a standard nonprofit strategic plan? This leaves it open for continuous improvement and development on your mission; it will never be complete , but always a work in progress.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. Smooth Transition's life skills development and educational training increase levels of employability. spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space. How did these groups come together?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

It is the story of the person’s condition and being challenged—yet at the same time not able to seek the opportunity that should be afforded to them, and the potential ahead of them. Some of the most successful social movements for good developed strategies and approaches where creative was included to spark involvement from participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. Since you now have a clear understanding of your organizations strengths and challenges, you can begin focusing in on where changes need to be made.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Now, I’m not talking about having an occasional prickly pear on board who likes to challenge. With that goal in mind, he started Vantage Point, helping make board service easier, more rewarding, and more effective through common sense governance, effective strategic planning and key board development techniques. governance'

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. There are two main challenges when creating games: making a good game and making a game that achieves its goal. After coming up with the initial design, organizations should develop a prototype and test.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Then you’ll create a short video (up to 90 seconds) or a five-image slide show to enter the challenge and win prizes donated by our sponsors. Read all about how the Orange County Library System in Florida is teaching teens how to use MakerBot printers and flight simulators as well as other technology skills. The ReStart Romania.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Are you… Helping youth develop lifelong skills? We want you to tell us how you are using products donated through TechSoup to help the youth in your community develop valuable life skills that will prepare them to take full advantage of their bright futures. Challenge Schedule. This Challenge is void in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

Proteus Digital Health is developing pills with sensors in them called ‘ingestibles’ Each ingestible sensor is the size of a grain of sand and doesn’t contain any toxic substances. Glide in San Francisco recently won a big Google Impact Challenge grant to supply cloud-based document storage to the homeless people it serves.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Instead of designing programming and then seeking out audiences for it, we identify communities and then develop programs that are relevant to their assets and needs. Develop collaborations and programs, keeping in mind what you have learned. It's rooted in the assets and needs of creative teens in our County. Not your voice.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. The site features information for developers, including tips for building apps and a guide for getting started.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Find the Future: The Game.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 16, 2014

It was no frills; when my sisters & I suffered our teen angst-y issues or had drama there were no ‘ Full House ’ type moments. We should strive to be more inclusive as community developers. Overall, I challenge the new class of graduating Allies and all those who work in our communities to always being thinking in new ways.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. This is where your nonprofit can make an entrance and develop a strategy to meet these potential supporters on the platform. Hashtag Challenges. Further, the platform has collaborated with several nonprofits to create hashtag challenges through the TikTok For Good initiative.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Their project this year is to prevent teen pregnancy by educating girls about: how to make informed choices, how to protect against the risks that come with being sexually active, and how to get support and resources along the way. They came up with a timeline for developing their program and planning a workshop presentation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA. Stand and Deliver was started at a time when Corporate Social Responsibility was not a common term.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

I asked them to take the social object challenge - to talk to a stranger, get two strangers talking to each other, and create an object to get strangers talking to each other without their intervention. For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. In the meantime, here are some.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. The inclusion of tough, thoughtful challenges would better promote the ideas the game is looking to express. JURY FEEDBACK.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't. Online contests like the Knight News Challenge , The Case Foundation's America's Giving Challenge , and the AmEx Cardmember Project can be resource draining to participate in, especially for a time- and cash-strapped nonprofit. Four years ago, web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. It's a challenge in all process-driven work. Give people the exhibition but not the debates about content development. But that juice is fickle.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

While it's true that art museums have some particular challenges, so do all kinds of institutions in their own ways. This post outlines what I see as the opportunities and challenges for different kinds of museums in pursuing participatory visitor engagement. Everyone can have her own personal experience of history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Has the Walker developed formal guidelines for your posts to the blogs? What are some of the challenges to blogging in a nonprofit arts organization? The biggest challenge is to get people to contribute a few hours a. We started blogging to give a online to a lot of different. audiences via the internet. week to writing.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go. The conference is held every two years, and is always.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go. The conference is held every two years, and is always.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. When they saw the results of that expression, they struggled with the content and eventually integrated it into their project in a way that diminished the teens’ involvement and hard work. Ideas professional development.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2016

These are your future primary congregants, and during the troubling teen years, you have a perfect opportunity to show how their religious background will always help lead them in the right direction. Teens are facing new challenges, and need a safe place to work those out. Be Flexible in the Structure. Work with What They Know.

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