Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. spanhidden.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

This Women’s History Month, we’re proud to highlight the innovative and impactful work of these Kindful customers. On this page, you’ll find their missions, the areas of impact they serve, and ways to support their important work. Girls Write Nashville. Girls On The Run. Boulanger Initiative. Headquarters in: Washington, D.C.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

These sorts of echo chambers are common inside the Twitterverse – it’s the same with most celebrities and musicians who also tend to only follow each other, but in the case of nonprofits and politicians who are working on many of the same issues, not following the nonprofits listed below is a lost opportunity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2011

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. ASU Lodestar Center. Vincent de Paul.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . Thank you so much for supporting us and believing in our work! .

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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. She immediately got to work. Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. We've created a digital media lab.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Currently, more than 50 percent of children ages 0–8 spend an average of 43 minutes daily on smartphones and tablets watching videos, reading, and playing games. Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. Millennials (Born 1980–2000, Currently Ages 14–34).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

These potential donors are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

This Nonprofit Trailblazer delivers work across three key pillars of activity: local communities, equal opportunities, and caring for those in need. Most of the projects are delivered by social changemakers who work on a small scale with limited resources. Oranje Fonds is passionate about supporting their work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids. We're working on becoming a member program of Oregon Mentors.

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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Why is your organization needed if others are doing this work already? But have you looked at all the organizations in your area doing similar work? Are you sure no one else is working in this area? Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? What need will you address?

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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. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs?

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Church fundraising events can work wonders. Work with a volunteer from your congregation to create t-shirt designs that you can sell on print-on-demand sites like Bonfire or TeeSpring. Here’s how it works: Encourage participants to choose a habit that costs them money (eating out too often, smoking, buying lottery tickets).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Now, years later, as I work with nonprofits who are primarily interested in Facebook and Twitter, there is part of me that mourns the loss of MySpace being used by the nonprofits. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Music and arts organizations, probably.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers. 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? What about working off site?

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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. By highlighting those mission-critical moments, you build a sense of urgency for your work.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

This can help you start defining goals and considering which model strategic plan will best work for your organization. You may decide to address this by working with an external fundraising consultant or directing your staff’s attention to building relationships with your most engaged donors who are likely to increase their giving amounts.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

The work you do is invaluable to generations of people. 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.

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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. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Church fundraising events can work wonders. Work with a volunteer from your congregation to create t-shirt designs that you can sell on print-on-demand sites like Bonfire or TeeSpring. Here’s how it works: Encourage participants to choose a habit that costs them money (eating out too often, smoking, buying lottery tickets).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. " Powered by CDI , Apps for Good is working with youth in the UK to teach them how to. fruit in cities around the country that is working with Asiya Wadud's. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens. technological solution.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2015

They also help demonstrate the human impact of nonprofits' and libraries' work. The one exception is if they include children or youth under 18. If you work with youth, your form would likely be different. Teen Retreat. " IBME gets both the teen's and parent's signature. You can indeed.

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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. The Self-Sufficiency Standard in the report calculates and reports the income needed by working families to meet basic necessities. The recently released report, How Much is Enough in Your County?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries. 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."

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Over the past year, we've been doing TechSoup Impact stories about nonprofits, churches, and libraries doing great work with TechSoup product donations. " Braided River's director of development and communications, Lace Thornberg, told us, "We work really hard with a very little budget to have the highest impact possible.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 30, 2014

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. Board trouble arises when there is no clarity in who does what.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

We are here to talk about how to lead and manage in our new work reality. Let’s see if we can get to work. Hopefully it’ll work. And so I’ve been so grateful to be able to help thousands of folks through my classes, through my courses, through one-on-one work, through training, conferences.

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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. Okay, this tip might make you think of Inception, but it works! 5K/10K Race. Host sub-events.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Allow event volunteering to be credible for school or work requirements as an extra incentive. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. This is a screenshot of the Giving Initiative for Teens’ Homelessness and Poverty campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer event.]. Tech Considerations.

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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. This is the mission of Caravan Studios' Range app: helping youth and those who work with them find locations where free summer meals are served. How Range Works.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The majority of foundation funding for the arts goes to large, established organizations that present work that is based in the European canon for a primarily white, upper-income audience. There's the barrier of the concern that this work is "social work" and not art--and therefore doesn't belong in a museum or a theater.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

This experience is shared by folks who contribute data to Citizen Science projects , nominate concepts for MN150 , or perform research on the children of the Lodz ghetto. We should respect visitors enough to engage them in work that we actually value, to find in-roads that support their participation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids. The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA.

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