ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2011

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. Millennials (Born 1980–2000, Currently Ages 14–34).

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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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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Amy is the Director of Service and Graduate Education Programs at Idealist.org , and lives in Oregon with her husband and two sons. Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. We're working on becoming a member program of Oregon Mentors.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Common Sense Media offers online safety assessments for educators. 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. GCF Learn Free.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

Damon asks the President about education reform, school lunches, and my favorite question, "I notice as President that you get bullied a lot. If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Need a little pick me up today? How do you handle it?"

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Are there other opportunities, including self-paced online programs, you could provide to educate volunteers about your organization’s issue and create pathways for your most motivated volunteers to grow into leadership roles? Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Are there certifications volunteers can earn?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

The one exception is if they include children or youth under 18. Teen Retreat. " IBME gets both the teen's and parent's signature. Newsletters, blog posts, or recent events sections on websites are considered news. However, the photographs should only be posted for a limited amount of time.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

What says “educational” more than a trivia night? 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. Trivia Night. Our first event idea is definitely appropriate for school groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

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. More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. Caravan staff members were shocked by how many children are not accessing free summer meals — and realized they could do something about it. How Range Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. To some degree, the educational value is in being able to reinvent the world. s a powerful educational thing.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history. My focus is on how children learn science. Learning Science by Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. It takes people who want to be educators, not just executors. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Educating the Public on Disaster Preparedness. Since the New Orleans Public Library's bookmobile was no longer operational, Copel starting driving around a tricycle (and then later, a book bus) with free books for children and teens of all ages. Here are a few more public libraries that have helped in times of need.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

On Thursday afternoon, our workshop fractured as curators, educators, media producers, and marketing staff scrambled to talk to press and put together spur-of-the-moment exhibits and tribute programs. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Probably not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. Videos on TikTok have expanded to include how-tos and educational videos. Oreo promised to make a donation to Save the Children when at least 1 million TikTok videos were uploaded with the hashtag. Users with under 1,000 followers have an average engagement rate of 51.1%.

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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. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Oh the hours!!

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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. Those funds will help so many orphaned children have the surgeries and other care they need. Oh the hours!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. . Because I know their work first-hand, they got my vote !

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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." He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. It takes people who want to be educators, not just executors. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). CHALLENGES - Art museums have more significant separations between education departments and curatorial departments than other types of museums. This means that an activity construed as educational (i.e.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Education, healthcare, violence, lack of economic resources, trafficking, to name just a few. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. Educators need to intervene and make creative alliances.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Ruth Cohen - American Museum of natural History For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history. My focus is on how children learn science.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

They were educators and were heavily involved in the schools, first the segregated black schools, and then later, in the 1960s onward, with the integrated school. Jesus” to help them deliver fourteen children. My favorite part was a wall of photos and transcribed oral histories from local elderly community members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. Global Kids uses interactive and experiential methods to educate youth about critical international and public policy issues and provides them with opportunities for civic and global engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. GivingTuesday is ramping up for its 2014 campaign and it looks like children and teens will be a part of the movement. One example is Emily Barr from Maryland is a clever 5th grader who wants to help her best friend who has Cystic Fibrosis.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Do they have children? They were college-educated and had professional jobs. If they are families with children, seek out events with activities for kids. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. They graduate high school in record numbers and the majority go on to post-secondary education.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. They graduate high school in record numbers and the majority go on to post-secondary education.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

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