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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

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. Consider an interactive gamified activity that can be completed over more than one visit. Do you offer a student membership discount?

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

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. But when summer vacation starts, the school meals end. The good news is: there are thousands of sites serving free summer meals to low-income youth.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. the ability to interact meaningfully with tools that expand.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. Nonprofit Programs and Social Actions.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children''s job prospects as adults. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations.

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children's job prospects as adults. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations.