Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids. We're working on becoming a member program of Oregon Mentors.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

We’ve put together some of our favorite church fundraiser ideas. These simple fundraising ideas for churches are a great way to raise money and grow your congregation. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. This idea is inspired by Save One Life, Inc.’s

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Build a membership program specifically for children. If you can manage two to four activities per year, you’ve provided some value to the parents and involved children at an early age. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

We’ve put together some great family friendly P2P fundraising event ideas that are sure to grow fundraising for your school group. Our first event idea is definitely appropriate for school groups. This next idea is great for encouraging healthy, family-friendly activities while fundraising. Trivia Night. 5K/10K Race.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

Here are a few ideas: 1. If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. I'd love to hear your ideas about how to support children who want to make the world a better place. Volunteer with them.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2019

Generation Alpha are the youngest in your children’s ministry and your nursery. Children in this group are learning about values that will last a lifetime. Generation Z are the older children in your children’s ministry and youth groups. Ensure that their faith and giving back are part of the lessons learned.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This plan is a living rough draft based on everyone’s ideas. Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Strategic Plan 2021-2025 Boys & Girls Club of America is dedicated to providing enriching after-school programs for kids and teens. Online Fundraising | Ultimate Success Guide + Tips and Ideas.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Volunteer protection: Volunteers often enthusiastically leap into situations having no idea the degree of risk they are taking. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? For example, if volunteers will be working with children, they should keep anything they learn about the child’s background confidential.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

If you think this is another bit of click-bait list of fundraising ideas to do around Valentine’s Day, you’re half right. How to make it yours… Click To Tweet The biggest key in claiming a holiday for fundraising is combining an accessible peer-to-peer fundraising idea with consistency. 13 Simple Valentine’s Day Fundraising Ideas.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

This gives them an idea of how many appeals they should be prepared to carry out. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. This is a screenshot of the Giving Initiative for Teens’ Homelessness and Poverty campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer event.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

You have to have an idea of what you’d like to say, and then you have to say it in a way that satisfies your expectations of quality. What if I assigned you to make a video of your ideas about justice? The materials are not the barrier—the ideas and the confidence are. Consider a mural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

The 100 organizations are now participating in the next round , "The Big Idea" where the 100 charities share their big idea for changing the world and get votes. Explaining the "big idea" succinctly in a few sentences. The winner gets $1 million and five finalists will receive $100,000 each.

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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. More here on the event. I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

You have to have an idea of what you’d like to say, and then you have to say it in a way that satisfies your expectations of quality. What if I assigned you to make a video of your ideas about justice? The materials are not the barrier—the ideas and the confidence are. Consider a mural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

I was curious about my colleagues, who work for nonprofits and are parents, what do they do to encourage their children's spirit of giving at a young age? Hans shared a story about how his wife donated her hair to Locks of Love which sparked a conversation with their 4 year old about children who are in need. or someone else???s

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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. My focus is on how children learn science. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. Learning Science by Design. but there wasn’t an offline space for that.

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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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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

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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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

As COSI began recreating ourselves a few years ago we consciously included the idea that we would become a sort of a piazza for our community, an effort that has proven to be challenging. Our space for families with children under first grade, little kidspace , is the space in our building that seems to pretty consistently be a third place.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So I do not let my daughter on Instagram, but that’s my own personal choice and do something that org, they are an organization dedicated to combating suicide and self-harm and addiction and all of these things in, in teens. And also in the way that we’re talking about the use of the platforms. Amy DeVita, TopNonprofits : Yeah.

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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. Ze had issued an invite to tens of thousands of people online, and we had no idea how many people would attend, and who they are. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. 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. The concept of openness.

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). Visitors are rarely engaged in exhibition development or content production as they might be in art or history museums; participation in science centers is often focused narrowly on teens and young adults who are engaged in formal internships or staff positions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. They just didn’t have the resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

Hospitals need to supplement the traditional "pink lady," with volunteer opportunities for teens, baby boomers, and people in their 20s, 30s, 40s. For example, after our conversation, I checked out the volunteer opportunities at one of my local hospitals, the Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland.

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Volunteer Web United States Help 40

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

They just hate the idea of begging for money. It might take a minute to get your brain around that idea, that the donor is more important to you and your organization than their donation. An Idea Donor Profile is a description of your typical donor, based on demographics and psychographics. Do they have children?

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Fundraising Fund Teen Newsletter 120

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

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. . 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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Donation Fundraising Teen Money 121

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

We have directions and guidelines on the website , and lots of good ideas about art materials and how to get started. We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded. Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors. Learn more!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

My story is more a case of "Getting Hired: It's What You Want, How Aggressive You Are, and What Ideas You Can Offer." At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. Part 3: It's What Ideas You Can Offer I started the Museum 2.0

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

The news values that professional journalists use to choose the best story ideas can help. Once you have a winning story idea in hand, it’s now time to develop that story fully. 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.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. We wanted to created a space where people could get together and talk about games.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This is the opposite situation of the previous design goal, one typical in science and children's museums. There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so I am not new to the idea about what it means to lead when the tide has shifted, but what I really had to come to understand over the last several years was what it means to really lead and manage your time and manage your team when your reality continues to change and the only thing that feels constant is change. I so imagine that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. But we wanted to do it.

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