article thumbnail

Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. Now the teens are branching out to other area nonprofits.

Library 54
article thumbnail

MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. Bricker says that there is also another benefit, perhaps an unplanned one, to having teen volunteers.

Library 36
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. If your organization is trying to reach teens, absolutely!

Myspace 190
article thumbnail

Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum

Tech Soup

Learning Resources for Children and Families. also has a section especially for children and families. Common Sense Media , a nonprofit focused on reviewing media for children and families, has a videos and articles targeted at parents. AT&T designed an Internet Safety game. GCF Learn Free. The PBS show Frontline.

Teach 51
article thumbnail

Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

Work with a volunteer from your congregation to create t-shirt designs that you can sell on print-on-demand sites like Bonfire or TeeSpring. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. Plus, your congregants can buy t-shirts to show their support. Matching gifts.

Giving 98
article thumbnail

Make P2P Fundraising Elementary for Your School Group

Qgiv

It’s important to note that this works best for elementary school children, especially in earlier age groups so they can read multiple short children’s books to maximize fundraising potential. For older age groups, convert the readathon goal to be less about books read, but pages read with donations for every hundred pages for teens.

Group 52
article thumbnail

5 Hybrid Event Ideas for Youth Organizations

Qgiv

And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. Another hybrid fundraising idea designed with kids in mind is a hybrid video game event. Nonprofit in action: This next example was designed with children and families in mind. They’re giving to people in order to make a difference.

Ideas 52