Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. Image: Photo of Emily Smith of YMCA of Greater Seattle, photo by Charles Brennick.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Staff: Provide an organizational chart with photos and enough information about each person’s role so volunteers can find the person they are looking for. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Blog posts or photos from volunteers and other “boots on the ground” staff who want to share their experiences Video with your religious leader or a board member explaining your organization’s impact. Social media offers the opportunity to post different kinds of content like photos and videos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

Most of the nonprofits are using it as a form of clever newsjacking — discovering that the nonprofit’s office or program location is a Pokemon stop and have snapped a photo for social media posting. Safety concerns for younger children , especially unsupervised have reported in the media. A Few Concerns.

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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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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. For older kids and teens that benefit from your youth organization, a video game tournament is a great opportunity for them to show off their skills while raising funds for your organization. They’re giving to people in order to make a difference.

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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. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. When Doron visits schools to invite teens to apply for FoodWhat, he gives a five-minute pitch on their terms.

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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. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

I watched this happen magically and easily for hundreds of people on Friday at EMPSFM, folks of all ages and backgrounds intently taking photos, writing messages, and talking to their friends. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Probably not.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. 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 was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Examples * Teen Health Talk engages youth to talk about health issues rather than lectures at them. National Resource Defense Council asked supporters to upload their photo and post about why they care about the environment. * Save the Children's homepage uses mostly photos of healthy, rather than sick, children. *

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. Name your children after them. " Be A Role Model of Generosity. " Looking for an alternative gift to help a child?

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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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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

MARCH 16, 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. But the teens heard, “Do whatever you want—we don’t really care what it is.”

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

Every display, from the ladies’ church hats to a prize-winning quilt to former Miss Teen Texas photos to artwork brought back from Africa, seemed to be filled with the stories and the lives of the people who had created, contributed, or were featured in them. It wasn’t even 100% clear which stories went with each photo.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

They launched an annual fundraiser and gift-collecting drive for the children's hospital in their community (in WA). It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over. Free Books for Kids! Look how cute these chimps are.

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Hurricane Haiti Music Children 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Photo from public photos tagged with macarthur in NMC flickr stream. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. NMC Flickr Photos. NMC Consortium Summary.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

I was frustrated by the exclusivity of the gallery world, and I had not seen the success that some photo journalists have by taking a singular image that could change the world! We know that creativity and freedom of expression go a long way in educating children to be tolerant and open minded.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. So I packed up and moved down the East Coast.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

Let's say you spend a year working with a group of teens to co-create an exhibition, or you invite members and local artists to help redesign the lobby. There might be a plaque listing names or a group photo of participants, but that's about it. Community processes are both exciting and time-consuming. to create a successful product.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.) Some are conceptual (i.e.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Nearly 70% of users are under 35 , and 72% of teens use Instagram. A mixture of photo and video content. Save the Children , for example, uses the branded hashtag #everylastchild, which is also their tagline. You can read more about why you should use Instagram Business on the Constant Contact blog.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Save the Children. Let’s explore the ways that Mustard Seed promotes its mission throughout every inch of the site: Photo gallery. Their well-organized photo gallery page makes great use of space and showcases a variety of their efforts. Top Nonprofit Website: Save the Children US. North Shore Animal League. Ontario SPCA.

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Websites Organization Nonprofit Game 52

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FEBRUARY 12, 2023

If you have photos or videos of Mr. Fuddles and his human that’s even better! Tell them that their gift of $15 will provide a week’s worth of lunches for kids in your summer day camp for needy children. Which teen is more likely to be more invested in taking care of the car? Calculating your Core Number. Goal Proximity.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. So on a very simple level, I’m sure most of us have seen a 360 photo on Facebook. If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. It’s not focused on this perfect, beautiful photo of you that’s completely filtered.

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