Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? How does turning wired students into digital citizens fit with your organization’s existing mission? Is it about keeping students safe? Preparing them for college or jobs?

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your annual report should communicate the success of your organization and its financials in a concise, visual way. DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. It can be tough to find the right balance between information and overload. Power Poetry.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. 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." They like to do and touch and make.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Some employees are looking to engage in a quick event like answering questions for a student that takes a few minutes online, while others may be wanting to commit to a skills-based volunteering position that will help a nonprofit create a lasting strategy. Look for a variety of event commitment levels – ranging from one-time to long-term.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

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. . The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce. The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

" 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. New Heights also uses Citrix GoToMeeting from TechSoup to connect teachers and tutors with students. " Inward Bound Mindfulness Education.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. The FPL for a family of three is $19,090, regardless of whether those three people are adults, teen-agers or infants. Kunz, CFRE , ASU Lodestar Center. NMI Instructor. Owner, Clyde Kunz and. Associates, LLC. Welcome to Research Friday !

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

But a shifting communications environment and changing donor demographics could render those best practices ineffective at best, and obsolete at worst, as early as 2012. Get accustomed to using social media to communicate with all of your potential donors. Simplistic appeals targeted at teens and college students don't.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. It was great to see grandparents, parents, young adults, and teens all working together to support orphaned children.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. It was great to see grandparents, parents, young adults, and teens all working together to support orphaned children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

Hospitals need to supplement the traditional "pink lady," with volunteer opportunities for teens, baby boomers, and people in their 20s, 30s, 40s. interview college students via the web so that they can be interns when they come home for the summer). Interviews (i.e Recognition (i.e.posting stories about volunteers online).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

An interesting point about using MySpace: "It can definitely be used for recruitment and as a mass communications tool, particularly for younger voters who tend to use email less. Do they use it as their primary form of asynchronous communication for talking with their friends? "Do young people have email accounts?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

People communicate in words, with expressions, and with gestures. During her career, she’s produced for CNN International, served as a humanitarian spokesperson in Iraq, and led award-winning nonprofit and corporate communications teams. And because there’s not much detail about Denise, it feels transactional, not emotional.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. Engage your members as community board members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. Nonprofit Programs and Social Actions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. One day when we didn’t have the students, I was walking the floor with another staff member. Plus, malls are cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Director of Network Communications. For survivors, Teen Vogue published self-care tips, acknowledging that it’s hard to avoid triggers and be overwhelmed by the news. Neil Parekh works on the communications team at United Way Worldwide. Sexual Assault: Resources for Families and Tips for Self-Care. by Neil Parekh.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

We're always happy for more bodies in the door, but if supporting teens means alienating seniors, there's a problem. Connecting with communities means making conscious decisions that invite in particular people. Pick a specific community (or two). Don't say that your institution will be a "town square for the community."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. " I point to these two stories to contrast the generation gap in our understanding about communications technology. The cell phone was not a convenience or an add-on for these students.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? We all know how bad the economy is and this can solve a few problems but lets not forget that with every good thing comes 2 bad thing.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. How can we develop programming that encourages students to make connections with kids of other ages or from other parts of our County?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. and displayed in the museum.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Because this is going to affect how we communicate with our donors and when. Yes, we’re interested in workforce development, but we’re not interested in offering students scholarships,” for example. You can also drive any emails or communications that you make to your funders back to your social media sites.

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