Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. 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. They’re giving to people in order to make a difference. Their top fundraiser?

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Tom wanted to leverage his extensive background to fulfill his true calling–working with nonprofit leaders and directors with one over-riding goal–equipping those organizations to have the greatest impact on the people they serve. Board trouble arises when there is no clarity in who does what.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

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.

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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. Having met his goal, he’s doing it again for his twelfth birthday. Helping Your Teen Give Back. “That’s why I need help from you!

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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. Set a fundraising goal for individuals. Fitness challenges. Make the grade fundraisers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here are a few design rules I use to think about what kinds of designed dialogue environments are right for different experience goals. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later.

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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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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

a Skokie Public Library program that provides specialized services, programs, and resources for children with special needs. 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. 3D printing at your local library?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

One of the institutions that really impresses me in supporting this kind of social change through the arts is, strangely enough, a children's museum. The Pittsburgh Children's Museum leads the Charm Bracelet effort to provide micro-granting throughout Pittsburgh's Northside neighborhood to enhance community vibrancy, health, and learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. 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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

Some people were downright incredulous that we could achieve our goals for a creative community plaza in downtown. We started designing ways to make Abbott Square a desirable “first landing place” in downtown—especially for families with children. A plaza rooted solely in creative practice was not going to achieve our community goals.

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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. Other organizations should set very specific goals for their Causes. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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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. Other organizations should set very specific goals for their Causes. How did they do it? Oh the hours!!

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

And awesome examples like 826 Valencia or the Boston Children's Museum's GoKids program demonstrate that sometimes putting traditional social services like tutoring or food distribution in a cultural context can destigmatize them. Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

If your goal is to invite visitors to share their own experience in a way that celebrates and respects their unique contribution to the institution, you need to design more constraints, not fewer, on visitor self-expression. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. When creating a new hashtag challenge , make sure that there’s a clear and simple purpose or goal. Oreo promised to make a donation to Save the Children when at least 1 million TikTok videos were uploaded with the hashtag. TikTok has the highest social media engagement rate per post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. others toward a common goal.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Our goal is making sure all our wonderful dobermans, including Rex, who I’ll admit is my favorite, find a loving, forever home. Because of that community support, we are able to provide 125 families each month with the food they need to feed themselves and their children. . Our service area includes 10 counties in our region.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. The Institute’s initial goals was $500,000. To date, the fundraiser has sold nearly 5,000 t-shirts and raised $75,000.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. Broad participation is not the goal of every project, but I found Ze's framing here a useful salve to the frequently espoused and flawed idea that "to get lots of participation, make the activity stupidly easy."

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Connecting personal wisdom to effect positive change is our goal. Working in and with a community of women, advocating for women’s rights and the right to be free of violence, and empowering women to be leaders has long been a personal goal and driving force for me. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library's resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. 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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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. Coalition of Community Foundations for Youth (CCFY) a network of community foundations in the United States dedicated to improved conditions for children, youth and families.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

When you treat your donors like the caring people they are, with philanthropic goals of their own, they will respond positively, often by giving more often or giving bigger than you’d hoped. Do they have children? If they are families with children, seek out events with activities for kids. But let that sink in. Do they run 5Ks?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Then she asked donors to help her reach her year-end financial goal. Give them a goal. But this is the kind of reporting you’re likely to get back: Denise, a mother with three minor children, requested assistance with rent and utility. What should she write? Unfortunately, this appeal didn’t perform as well as it could have.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. And the reality is that it is not sustainable over time to burn the people to get to the goal.

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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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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

This allows the organization to better track how certain efforts and programs are impacting or influencing overall goals and effectiveness. . You May Also Enjoy: Success Story: Empowering the Jewish Teen Movement with BBYO + Salesforce. We’re all looking at the same story now,” said Jordan. “We

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

However, the leadership skills necessary to motivate and inspire teams to accomplish their goals and objectives in the business world are relatively the same as they are in the Army. Engineering employees and their families adopt children from the local community. Question : Why should a leader in business pursue an MBA?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

We do a garden nutrition program at our two school sites and at the YMCA site, which is basically for children, at these sites, teaching them about gardening and about nutrition. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. It's a six-week course, and there's a pretty extensive waiting list for that; it's very popular.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. Once you’ve taken all this into account, you should also consider how Instagram fits into your nonprofit’s overall goals, marketing campaigns and digital strategy. Make sure each post works towards your digital strategy and SMART goals. ‘Gram with Twenti.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Save the Children. Darien Nature Center’s site has a unique goal—to inspire visitors to close their laptops and come out for a visit! Top Nonprofit Website: Save the Children US. We worked with Save the Children US to create their customized child sponsorship experience, and we’re proud of the result! Project Open Hand.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

When you ask for a gift, don’t tell your donors you’re six thousand dollars away from your spring campaign goal. Tell them that their gift of $15 will provide a week’s worth of lunches for kids in your summer day camp for needy children. Goal Proximity. This simply means how close or far you are from your goal.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. But not only that, what I want to draw your attention to is that 36% of people using social media said they have used it to show support for a cause, which I think for all of us and all of our particular goals and objectives is really important. Okay, TikTok now.

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