Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

These events bring together app developers with people from the nonprofit world to present new ideas and improve on social good projects already in use. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. Of all the projects presented, the Detroit Water Project might be the most well-known.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. 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. Like many transmedia projects, SOS_Slaves is ambitious.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

The Leading Change Summit is just 12 days away. We''re packing, preparing, designing, and more just to make sure this first Summit lives up to the NTEN community standards. This required us to start playing with some of the 14LCS thinking toys – we couldn''t resist! Unlike the NTC, there''s no live stream for this event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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See3

JUNE 6, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.Google Chrome: It Gets Better | 1:31 It Get’s Better Project In response to the high numbers of suicides by gay teens, writer Dan Savage started the It Gets Better Project to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives [.].

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

She enjoys camping, reading, adventure travel, and clean socks… and I should mention is starting a nonprofit called Pando Projects. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Girls for a Change , a nonprofit that pairs women with middle and high school girls to help them create social change in their communities, is looking for mentors in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Through this awesome after-school program, these young women are becoming true social change agents. girl social change mentor

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions. How do you overcome institutional resistance to change and uncertainty to do something wild and hopeful? Pick apart your mission statement, and look for the words and phrases you can connect your project to. It takes six steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world. And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Helping Your Teen Give Back.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

that allows readers to change years and see how their program market has increased over time. Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. We love how Girls Who Code built an interactive map of the U.S. We think that’s a win-win! Power Poetry.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Once we've identified assets and needs, we seek out collaborators and project ideas. We never start with the project idea and parachute in. We start with the community and build to projects. Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

It's the ability for me to work with my CFO to be able to budget and align the right kinds of resources for new projects. Our collective willingness to be nimble and generous is really the reason I've been able to do any kind of innovative project here. A crew that has the capacity to build a sign at the last minute.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Apps for Good "is an award-winning course where young people learn to create imaginative mobile apps that change their world." Forage Oakland project. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens. technological solution.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2016

The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like. Take the UNICEF Tap Project , for example. With leveling statements, however, the donor can easily identify with someone who is affected by the issue, which is much more impactful in terms of changing interest into action.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

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. We''re working on a theory of change. I know that all of these are healthy, creative tensions that come with change and growth. We have to change it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

We built specific community processes appropriate to each step of the project development. The result is a project dreamed up by our community, then harnessed, honed, and taken to completion by the MAH. Here are three significant ways community participation influenced our project. Every step involved community participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism. but I couldn't find an extensive list of twenty-something bloggers who focus on nonprofits, social change, and social action. Amy Sample Ward. Philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup's SafeNight and Caravan projects are described in Making Data an Afterthought. Read about the winners and how they plan to change the world through apps. 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.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This week, the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy released a new paper by Holly Sidford called Fusing Arts, Culture, and Social Change. Even as demographics change and public participation in the arts shifts away from these Euro-traditional formats, the money still flows down the old pathways. The title may sound innocuous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

A college grad researching a career in fundraising recently asked me what’s changed since I started in the field. Of course things have changed a lot. “No, Things have just changed a lot in a short amount of time.”. Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. This includes visual arts, sculpture, paintings, murals, as well as better designed buildings, parks, and shared spaces and projects to foster relationships and understanding. Any secondary interests?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

For example, if you’re undergoing frequent staff turnover, a change in leadership, or are understaffed, you may find an issues-based strategic planning model to be the best choice. This extended time frame means the document is intended to be a living, flexible blueprint that will evolve as the community’s needs change.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

She points out why this was such a groundbreaking event and suggests a compelling new metaphor for philanthropy: Imagine if philanthropy sought to be an "empowering platform for individuals (and organizations) to make change." Not only did Jonathan Fanton himself want to stay in touch with project. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Data is becoming more and more transparent and that is changing the world. Is it time for a change of clothes? This is an Ignite presentation about Debra''s story, and how she chose to change it.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Transgender teen Ali Forney fled his home at age 13. These changes have also resulted in more youth needing the center's support. This change will make the program the nation's first 24-hour drop-in program for homeless LGBTQ youth. He bounced from foster home to foster home before ultimately ending up on the streets.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

To be effective, you need some more information from your co-workers, but something has changed since that initial meeting. Creating an overlap of between your goals and the organizational change you are trying to implement is key in creating successful buy-in. Looking for new newsletter signups?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Technology is dramatically changing the way we work and live our lives, and the social good community needs to account for this digital transformation that demands increased transparency and also opens new doors. This information allows your organization to review applications based on anticipated results.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The 100 organizations are now participating in the next round , "The Big Idea" where the 100 charities share their big idea for changing the world and get votes. Their proposal for "changing the world" is something they've been working on and getting feedback on for the past two years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Before this point I had not been able to affect the kind of change I was seeking by being a fine art photographer only. I know that I can make a difference for positive change, and am learning that Traveling Postcards might be the vehicle for making that change.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Personal computers, cell phones, digital assistants, and the Internet have fundamentally changed how we communicate. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Sami Hassanyeh, AARP. But to make these connections, people need access.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. What do you think has changed around these issues in the past five years? and "why?" to "how?". That participation is powerful and scalable.

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