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. Now the teens are branching out to other area nonprofits.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? This can be an interim solution while you test your program to see if it takes off.

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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. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program. " Library-Specific Curriculum.

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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. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh created a Summer Adventure program. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Amy is the Director of Service and Graduate Education Programs at Idealist.org , and lives in Oregon with her husband and two sons. Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. We’re launching with a Halloween party on Oct.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

A volunteer handbook is an essential piece of a successful volunteer program at a nonprofit. Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Your Volunteer Program philosophy is something you should hammer out with Board input and approval. Is proof of age required?

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES! 2013 nten challenge Fundraising givingtuesday'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2012

The Dougy Center , a Portland, Oregon nonprofit helping grieving children, teens, and young adults recover from the death of a friend or family member, suffered a debilitating arson fire in 2009.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Identify priorities for the types of programs and services you’ll offer to support your goals, target audience for your services, target supporter audiences, advocacy and public policy aims, and branding or marketing objectives. Expand your monthly giving program by 100 donors within a year. Retain 70% of donors from last year.

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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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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It is one of 200 program sites in this very large and active YMCA. 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.

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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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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Encourage the youth group to take part in fundraising. Make the grade fundraisers.

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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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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. Doron runs a youth development program called FoodWhat in Santa Cruz County, California. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Stand out in some way.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

In order to lead your ministry, provide valuable programming, and connect your community to your mission, you need adequate funds. For example, faith-based organizations may use peer-to-peer fundraising to fund a new building or start a youth ministry program. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Some of the apps created by youth who have completed the program include: Buzzer Buddiez is a unique alarm app that uses voice-recording and a buddy system to help you get up in the morning. Are you involved in a youth app development program?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community." The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

For nearly 50 years, the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL) has been the standard measure used by governments and nonprofit organizations serving low income individuals and families to determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs. The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

When you need to get signed consent: If you have photos of identifiable people and are using the image for public relations, marketing, or promotional purposes like calling attention to future programming. The one exception is if they include children or youth under 18. Teen Retreat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

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. Helping Your Teen Give Back. More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Junior Achievement of Kansas hosted multiple virtual trivia nights to raise funds for their programs during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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.

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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. But a lot of the questions and issues described in Sidford's paper are as applicable on the level of individual programs or institutional priorities as they are for funders and foundations.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. Encourage the youth group to take part in fundraising. Make the grade fundraisers.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

a Skokie Public Library program that provides specialized services, programs, and resources for children with special needs. Read all about how the Orange County Library System in Florida is teaching teens how to use MakerBot printers and flight simulators as well as other technology skills. The ReStart Romania.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

On Thursday afternoon, our workshop fractured as curators, educators, media producers, and marketing staff scrambled to talk to press and put together spur-of-the-moment exhibits and tribute programs. 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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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Since he started S4K in San Diego, it has grown to over 30 programs in over 20 states, powered by over 2,500 volunteers. She is a CEO of a nonprofit day program for adults with developmental disabilities. She grew her program so it now serves 700 people of varying abilities and allows them to express themselves through the art.

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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. the opportunity to program and build stuff in Second Life is pretty awesome. Again, it???s technologies don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. 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? Name your children after them.

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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, as they’re looking into 2022 and what their programs, what their marketing will look like.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2015

Since the New Orleans Public Library's bookmobile was no longer operational, Copel starting driving around a tricycle (and then later, a book bus) with free books for children and teens of all ages. She also started a community garden that holds events with food and literacy programs. Libraries as Evacuee Resource Centers.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. Learning Science by Design. The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. Oreo promised to make a donation to Save the Children when at least 1 million TikTok videos were uploaded with the hashtag. Think about your campaigns, programs, beneficiaries, volunteer experiences, and stories. Users with under 1,000 followers have an average engagement rate of 51.1%.

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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. When we first entered the Facebook Cause program, we only had our own volunteers, so about 40-50 people signed up.

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