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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. The media has dubbed this generation “ Qwerty Monsters ”; they send hundreds of text messages a day and don’t even like to use their phone for calls. I don’t do this with an expectation of any return–financial or otherwise.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Instant updates to your whole community?

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

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Not only do your congregants want to come out to support you, but you can even introduce your church to others and build your community. Another great way to grow your fundraising and your community simultaneously is with a t-shirt fundraiser. Place the collection materials around your church and the community. Craft parties.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When I first started myspace.com/nonprofitorganizations almost 4 years ago I had no idea that it would evolve to become as large as it has, or that the brand/community/concept would spread to Facebook , then YouTube , and now Twitter. I was able then to tap into that community when I expanded into Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

Not only do your congregants want to come out to support you, but you can even introduce your church to others and build your community. Another great way to grow your fundraising and your community simultaneously is with a t-shirt fundraiser. Place the collection materials around your church and the community. Craft parties.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

How can we protect yet empower ourselves, our kiddos, families, and communities among the multiple data streams social/media converge? Ten Years of Mistakes and Lessons Learned - The Greatest Hits Speaker: Jeff Coburn, Web Services Manager, Institute for Community Inclusion. Let’s revisit them publicly.

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Nonprofits Live: Gaming Recap

Tech Soup

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Dorado cites the online communities of Farmville, which raised funds for Japan tsunami relief, and FoldIt, which deciphered the structure of an AIDS-like virus. Planning Your Game. Collaboration and Epic Wins.

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