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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

MWA partners with Black-led mental health organizations and experts, seeks to train more Black mental health professionals, and aims to raise $100 million over the next five years to cover the cost of mental health expenses that are often a barrier to seeking help. Charlamagne Tha God’s Life’s Work is Helping Black People Heal.

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NextGen philanthropists and the transfer of intergenerational wealth

ASU Lodestar Center

When I want to get involved in an organization, it’s all in. If I’m going to be involved with something it is going got be 100 percent, until I feel like I have run my course in that organization, and then I will move on to something else.". Teaching philanthropy to children: why, how, what. Bjorhovde, P.O. Bentley, R.J.

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4 Reasons to Embrace Gen-Mix Volunteerism

VQ Strategies

Every individual, regardless of age, has skills and experience that can benefit mission-driven organizations. Simply put, co-generational teamwork will not only strengthen the outcomes of the program in the communities it serves but also foster greater intergenerational respect among volunteers. Knowledge spillover”. Program Stability.

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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nhuong Son , Wired Fundraiser for Cambodian Children! Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. Nhuong also received some good questions from his post over at MySpace: "the organization usually gets most of the money. Over 95% raised goes directly to supporting the children!

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My First Intergenerational Social Media: Learning from Gen Z's and Value of Different Points of View

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. When I've do social media and nonprofit trainings, the audience consists of staff, board members, or volunteers from nonprofit organizations.

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Guest Post by Katherine Hutt: A Small Nonprofit's Strategy for Pepsi Refresh Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At this point, they are at number 80 on the leaderboard, not bad for an organization that had social media on its to do list for 2010. Generations of Hope is one of 189 organizations going for February’s two top prizes of $250,000. It’s really about having a great idea and being a good community organizer.”

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Museum programs can also bridge different groups that might not typically interact such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum’s Educational Residential Centre, which designed a program specifically to bridge children of two groups engaged in social conflict, Catholics and Protestants.

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