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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Children for Children Foundation. Faber is a Philanthroteen.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Lack of Food Isn't the (Whole) Problem. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. That's 3.9

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Means and Ends: Who does What

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Now this is a big enough problem during board meetings, but when unclear boundary issues leak into day-to-day operations (as they eventually will) the agency may be headed for some PR, employee/staff attitude, and operational problems. I am talking about a true team that has the best interests of the agency at heart.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

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. The Generators focus on problems or difficulties that nonprofits face in their daily operations. The data comes from WhyHunger , a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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