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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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: Girls Write Nashville is a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program based in Nashville, TN, that cultivates empowered expression and positive community for teen girls. The Challenge Of Being A Woman Leader Of Color – The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Girls Write Nashville. Impacting: Empowerment through music education.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Fitness challenges. s At Home Everest Challenge! Small group challenges.

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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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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

It’s easy to see why: One in seven American teens is estimated to have a mental health condition, and 76% of students say wellbeing is a top challenge. Today, mental health is a strong component of the work the organization oversees in more than 190 countries.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

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. Fitness challenges. s At Home Everest Challenge! Small group challenges.

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

2013 nten challenge Fundraising givingtuesday' The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES!

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 30, 2019

Engaged employees bounce ideas around, suggest new ideas, challenge the norms and innovate. She currently runs the Louis & Elizabeth Sands Branch and serves youth and teens in the city of Glendale, Arizona. Different people provide different solutions to unique problems. Employee development.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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JULY 11, 2023

Additionally, internal leaks from Instagram have shown that the platform is aware that it can be harmful to young teens, especially young women. Facebook has been linked to events such as the January 6th insurrection and atrocities against the Rohingya. Much like other Meta platforms, Threads also collects a lot of user data.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The initiative seeks to support ordinary people in accomplishing extraordinary things by helping them to tackle national and global challenges. Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects."

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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. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. When Doron visits schools to invite teens to apply for FoodWhat, he gives a five-minute pitch on their terms.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Get creative with peer-to-peer fundraising with a fun challenge or competition! For instance, ask your youth group to participate in a fun TikTok dance challenge or talent show. But, there are other challenges that come with venue management. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I shared an overview of networks for social change and some of the challenges that nonprofits face in embracing the data. I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. Sometimes more! How many afterwards? Oh the hours!!

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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. Though it faces many challenges in providing students with real, relevant work tools and skills, its staff is relieved, knowing that its systems and data are protected. Breaking Harmful Cycles.

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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. Your organization serves and supports the challenges real people face, so why wouldn’t your creative reflect those people? Feature real people.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

The last two weeks of the contest, Amy and 10 others worked 8-10 hours a day blogging, emailing supporters, making phone calls, and recruiting teens and college students to help them towards gathering donations for the Cause. We featured the Facebook Challenge in two issues of that. Sometimes more! How many afterwards? Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. Going beyond Pokemon Go, what are the hopes and challenges of integrating social good into these VR/AR apps? A Few Concerns.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

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. You could also incorporate challenges that participants must submit photo or video proof of to complete.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. utilize technology to develop solutions to social challenges. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? And how do nonprofits and schools with a long list of demands fit this in to their busy days? Shameless plug alert!]

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Your policy can help to provide guidance on working with people with disabilities, mental health challenges, or limited English, and those experiencing a crisis. What is the minimum age required to volunteer with this organization? Does the parent have to accompany them?

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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. And the reason often can be traced to a lack of communication and confusion over “who does what”. That can be helpful if not overdone. I am talking about a true team that has the best interests of the agency at heart.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

Since finding cool things to do with your teens can be a challenge (at least for me), consider guerilla art love as your next Savor and Serve project! What was truly cool was how long some of the messages lasted - in some cases, weeks!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

It's always seemed challenging here to find funds for interpretative materials. In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. And the guards were watching them; they didn't trust teens. Can you give me an example?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment. The conversation thread made me think of this excellent blog post by my two favorite nonprofit data geeks from DoSomething. They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5 million views and asking was that success?

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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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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. We start with the community and build to projects.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

" A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food. 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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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning can help your organization meet challenges effectively and take advantage of new opportunities. Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Strategic Plan 2021-2025 Boys & Girls Club of America is dedicated to providing enriching after-school programs for kids and teens.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

An iPhone or iPod Touch is too small for her to get much use out of the keyboard with her fine motor challenges. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? The iPad will be perfect for her. A notebook computer will be heavier and require more maintenance. She can write with Pages. You can do better than that.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2010

An iPhone or iPod Touch is too small for her to get much use out of the keyboard with her fine motor challenges. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? The iPad will be perfect for her. A notebook computer will be heavier and require more maintenance. She can write with Pages. You can do better than that.

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Tech Calendar Ipod YouTube 100

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

When I ask what the phrase "don''t give people what they want, give them what they need" means, I am often told that we should not be pandering to people''s expressed desires but presenting them with objects and experiences that challenge them and open up new ways of seeing the world. Cultural experiences should be a pleasure.

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