Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: The mission of Crossroads for Women is to provide comprehensive, integrated services to empower women emerging from incarceration to achieve safe, healthy, and fulfilling lives in the community, for themselves and their children. Impacting: Incarceration and addiction. Headquarters in: Albuquerque, NM. Become a monthly donor.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. Not the content (which most people skim in about 13 seconds or less). Start by being very clear what you want people to do after they read your email.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Forty-two percent of Pottsboro’s school children are eligible for the National School Lunch Program. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. In a town of 1,800 people, this is HUGE! This was a win-win-win.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 20, 2009

Couric wanted our help getting the word out about the issues being covered in CBS Reports' new series, Children of the Recession. According to Couric's post, Katie Couric's Notebook: Children of the Recession : "Since the recession began, more than one million children have lost health insurance as their parents lose their jobs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The pandemic has brought the importance of human contact into sharp relief, with millions of people mobilising worldwide to help those living in isolation. Bringing People Together. Project organisers take great care when matching people up so that both enjoy the time they spend together, and in some cases even form friendships.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Feed people? If you want to increase capacity, open another shelter so more people in need of shelter will be able to find a bed, work closely with existing shelters to understand demand. Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? How will yours make a difference?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Academy of Hope Adaptive Sports Partners of the North Country American Brain Tumor Association American Cancer Society American Childhood Cancer Organization American Heart Association American Jewish World Service American Liver Foundation American Lung Association American Red Cross AmeriCares Animal Humane Society Apple Tree Arts Arcus Foundation (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is not just a community of poor people! Facebook is mostly used to stay connected to people you know.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

If you only accept cash or checks during your Sunday services, you’re likely missing out on tithes from people who’d be more than willing to give. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. After all, not all your congregants carry cash ! The problem?

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. Bricker says that there is also another benefit, perhaps an unplanned one, to having teen volunteers.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

So, how can we use family or experiences to get people to donate? 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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 7, 2014

Learning Resources for Children and Families. also has a section especially for children and families. Common Sense Media , a nonprofit focused on reviewing media for children and families, has a videos and articles targeted at parents. has a special page dedicated to online safety for kids and teens. GCF Learn Free.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

The work you do is invaluable to generations of people. Hybrid events encourage some in-person participation, but they’re also open to people participating online. It’s based on the idea that, when people donate, they aren’t really giving to your organization. They’re giving to people in order to make a difference.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Find programs that help young people make a difference like Common Cents' Penny Harvests or Do Something. One School at a Time. One School at a Time. Have fun with it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2014

Meet Katie: When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, my job was to host learning opportunities for teen girls. Shortly after we met, I hosted a lock-in for 300 teen girls, focusing on developing strong self-esteem. Regardless of how you start, people pay attention to a good story. Katie attended. Yes, SOBBING.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Virtual volunteer opportunities are in high demand, allowing people to work from home to help your cause, so include those, too. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Volunteers often have different life experiences than the people they interact with through a nonprofit organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Once the church was repaired, everyone went back to the church with the steeple, except for the people of the 11 o''clock Mass, where many families with young children, like my parents, often went. Over the next ten years, or so, the people of the 11 o''clock Mass fought to stay in The Center.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. But can you get in trouble by posting images of people without their consent? Rules of Thumb for Using Photos of People. The one exception is if they include children or youth under 18.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

If you only accept cash or checks during your Sunday services, you’re likely missing out on tithes from people who’d be more than willing to give. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. After all, not all your congregants carry cash ! The problem?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Additionally, the people donating personally know the individual promoting your fundraiser. This determines how many people you’ll need to get your event up and running on time. There might be people within your own community who want to help. Your faith-based nonprofit has likely helped more people than you can count.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. Safety concerns for younger children , especially unsupervised have reported in the media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Apps for Good "is an award-winning course where young people learn to create imaginative mobile apps that change their world." Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Basically it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. The Kirkland Teen program in Bellevue, Washington is run by Emily Smith who is their Youth Development Director.

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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. I firmly believe that all people have something meaningful to contribute to our communities, cultural work, and society at large--including youth. Kids with no food in the fridge.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. It's undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5 The Pumpkin Church.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

How do people recognize transparency and know it when they see it? 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.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants. For families with young children, the cost of housing and child care combined typically make up about 50% of the family’s budget. The recently released report, How Much is Enough in Your County?

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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

Generation Z, the heirs to the digital empire built by Generation X and expanded by Millennials, is made up of people who don’t just spend time online—they live there. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

At the Minnesota Nonprofits and Technology Conference , someone from the audience asked me about good resources for parents (and teens) about Web2.0 safety issues and what parents should know about their children's media use. and safety for young people? " What are your best resources for Web2.0

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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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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

We can gather information and reach people with a speed and frequency unimaginable even in the 1980s. But to make these connections, people need access. Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. But there is still the issue of income.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

We may say that we want to support programming and cultural opportunities for low-income and non-white people, but that's not where the money is going. 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.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So my bread and butter is really small nonprofits, bootstrapping nonprofits, people that are kind of wearing all the hats. I’m just going to say getaway, they got, they’ve gotten away with so much because the people in the Congress, they just don’t understand what any of this is. I did all of it. They were on there.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Learning Science by Design.

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