Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

You can be their hero and change their life.”. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . Jamie’s success story.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

As you share stories of change and create a clear vision of what your organization hopes to achieve, subscribers are likely to turn into lasting donors. Nonprofits can efficiently build long-term relationships with their community over email with targeted welcome series and ongoing drip campaigns.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

Hot off the heel of winning a Games for Change Award for The Curfew and the release of their new game, Sweatshop , we spoke to Darren Garrett, the Chief Creative of Littleloud Digital Entertainment. Can you explain a bit more about what Channel 4 does as both a television station and as an entity for change?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

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. The result was an 800 page book of narratives, pictures, stories, and much more that will now be part of the library’s collection.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. This is a great example of how events like the apps breakfast help social change app developers get feedback on the spot from the nonprofit community. Crowdfunding Help. It has been covered by TechCrunch, The Baltimore Sun , CBS News , and more.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Threads can also easily be shared to a user’s Instagram story or with a link. They have engineers and experts who are very good at building new features and copying the best ones from other platforms (Instagram Stories and Reels borrow features made popular on Snapchat and TikTok, for example).

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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. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. JURY FEEDBACK. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Determine services and programs: This is when you hammer out how you plan to change lives.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

Through their responses, and detailed follow-up interviews with 13 nonprofits, we discovered some remarkable and unexpected stories of innovation. One small organization, for example, is using text messages to communicate with teens who participate in a mentoring program. How do these steps look in action?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. Think about that for a minute.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2014

Meet Katie: When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, my job was to host learning opportunities for teen girls. Shortly after we met, I hosted a lock-in for 300 teen girls, focusing on developing strong self-esteem. ” The Power of a Good Story. Regardless of how you start, people pay attention to a good story.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . Also remember: the subject line is not supposed to tell the whole story. You still have time to change a life! Three days left to change lives. Give a gift, change a life. Make a gift, change a life. Change a life on #GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

In my book, Your Network Is Your Net Worth , I share several stories that demonstrate the potential impact of mentoring. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. One way to give back is by mentoring or sharing your experience with others. Guest Post Networks'

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. that allows readers to change years and see how their program market has increased over time. Check out the annual report template! DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI). The grassroots climate justice advocates at 350.org

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NTEN

DECEMBER 27, 2011

We know that 2012 - especially with all the new technologies we're sure to see - the nonprofit sector is going to create even more change in the world. She’s compiling stories for the Nonprofit Marketing Wisdom Guide 2012. Teens and mobile - talk about a perfect match. Have more news to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. The landscape is changing so quickly that there’s no guarantee a social measurement tool will remain relevant. Social media provides more than numbers; at its heart, it provides great stories.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Because the letter didn’t include an inspiring story that touched donor’s hearts. Why You Need a Great Story. Humans are hardwired to respond to stories. Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. But stories have the opposite effect. What Are the 7 Basic Story Elements?

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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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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. The behavior of people is hard to change and can take time – usually more time than you’d like.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5 Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment. Carie Lewis shared a story about how having source codes for all their campaigns was essential to measuring all their campaigns, but it was hard to get the web team to buy into source coding.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

This is a significant failure on their part and is one of the key concepts discussed in the new book Social Change Anytime Everywhere that I co-wrote with Amy Sample Ward. Many critics have asked the CNN reporters why they chose to focus on the emotional and life changing effects of the rapists rather than the victim.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. 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." technological solution.

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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. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Read about the winners and how they plan to change the world through apps. All April long, we’ll provide your organization with training and resources to tell its story digitally. Get started on telling your story with tools from the TechSoup catalog. Find out what else NetSquared was up to this spring in this roundup.

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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. Subjects to Change was born.

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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? They are created from stories we tell about ourselves, and stories affixed to us by others.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Last week I hosted a little contest to win a copy of Darius Graham's book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World. I picked Nancy 's name out of a hat this morning ( I really did use a hat), so Darius will be mailing her a free copy of the book!

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

It’s how you explain to a potential donor who your organization helps, what problem you are working to solve, and how your organization is changing lives. Today’s teens get the message that they need to go to college, but so many don’t know how to get to college, how to pay for college, or what they should do while they are at college. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America 4. The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination 17. Disney High School Musical: Stories from East High #13 19. The One Year Devotionals For Teens 29. Rural Nurse 2. Celtic Myths and Legends 3. Where Love Rules 6. As Meat Loves Salt 8.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

It seems like when that happens, you'd have to ask yourself: should we change the system based on this experience, or did this push us beyond our ability? Can you think of a time when you changed the system in response to an external need or stress point? In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Whether quietly spearheading some of the world's most groundbreaking scientific and medical research or not-so-quietly leading revolutions on the battlefield, our history is ripe with stories of ferocious, adventurous, enlightened, and persistent women. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings. Yara Shahidi.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. We were looking for ways not just to provide more services to small groups of teens but to develop platforms where teens could support and serve each other. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive?

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