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Mattering: The Growing Volunteer Motivator

VQ Strategies

Rarely have I gone deeper than the obvious impacts on solving problems in the community to explore what making a difference means on an individual level. Every volunteer wants to feel valued, whether a senior or teen. Some are angry about leaders who seem to ignore (or even facilitate) such issues as abuse of civil liberties.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. participants through identifying a problem and developing a. technological solution.

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

Qgiv

The problem? All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. 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.

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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. Unbiased information + neutral facilitation are provided. TSA feels they were able to nip this issue in the bud before it because a PR problem for them. Drinking from the Firehose? See Twitter on #opengovpb.

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

Qgiv

The problem? All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. 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.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

And it causes lots of problems later when the mission becomes difficult to explain because of all the various pieces that don’t always go together or make sense. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three? Plan the retreat.

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