Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

It aims to provide a gateway towards empowerment, educational, and employment opportunities to lead a fulfilling, prosperous, and purposeful life. Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. Breaking Harmful Cycles.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Choose a branch that is close to home to make your life easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. Helping Your Teen Give Back. Small Givers, Big Impact.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

Think about all the teens that need community service hours!) You can also use your event committee to generate buy-in from your community by leveraging your volunteers’ networks. Think through the various elements or skills your event requires, such as income generation, logistics, attendee recruitment, and event planning.

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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. Katie’s life wasn’t just impacted by her experience with my organization, it was irrevocably changed.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. million total (500,000 active monthly) residents of Second Life. (IDI)

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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. You may be surprised to find that Generation Z is a very philanthropic generation. 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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters. It's easy to forget that teens are most comfortable being social with those they already know, not people who are unknown to them. And in this way, they're no different from many adults. Or are they? I'm not so sure this is true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Qwerty Monsters are teens, age 13-17, who have gone mad for texting on their mobile phones. While they may not be using nonprofit created apps or donating via SMS, are the next generation of nonprofit donors following on the heels of Millennials? Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Goodwill: It generates goodwill, especially if exudes humaness, humility, and/or humor. This shot is from a program for teens that the met sponsors, #metteens. He generates Goodwill by being human and humorous. Specialization: It is precise, focused around a core talent or subject matter. Visibility. Specialization.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

One study found that 86 percent of respondents believed that having a strategic plan positively impacted revenue generation through grants, donors, events, and other avenues. Here is an overview of a few misconceptions about the process: Our nonprofit should be focused on saving/generating money, not spending it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

Source: Pew and American Life Internet Project, Adults and Social Networking Use. The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Here's peek into what we've been up to: TechSoup Global has two new posts on the Markets for Good blog, an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector.

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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. You may be surprised to find that Generation Z is a very philanthropic generation. 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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Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 52

Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

As a member of the often ignored, previously rather apathetic Generation X, I’m glad to see that shift. It’s the well I will go back to as I deal with the many, far more trivial things that will happen in my own life. It became clear that we did understand that success could be had by helping the world, not dominating it.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

The concept for Range came out of one of the "Generator" sessions Caravan hosted. The Generators focus on problems or difficulties that nonprofits face in their daily operations. Through these relationships, the members build a support network so they can continue to build confidence and navigate through life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok is a social media platform that allows users to generate 15-second videos and host live streams. TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. TikTok users are members of Generation Z , which presents an interesting engagement opportunity for your nonprofit to tap into a new, younger audience. What is TikTok?

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2). THREE GENERATIONS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. Kickstarter is the ship that will ensure that future generations remember his historic flight. However, the true genius of GoFundMe may have been its timing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

That's my avatar, I'm live blogging from Second Life. From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. "Do young people have email accounts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

New Voices of Philanthropy is written by Trista Harris and it covers issues of generational change in the philanthropic sector and more broadly trends in philanthropy. Orrdinary Life - First hand account of doing global international development work in a remote area in Southeast Asia. Young vs Older Donors: Who is More Generous?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression. When they saw the results of that expression, they struggled with the content and eventually integrated it into their project in a way that diminished the teens’ involvement and hard work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Our grassroots campaign involves all ages from teens to seniors. Caroline Lovell is a transformative artist living and working in California with a deep commitment to affecting change for woman through creativity.Her life as an artist is about using the creative process as a healing tool for personal growth and community awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 The Next Generation of Cause Marketing for Cystic Fibrosis Research. But giving, isn’t just about making a donation or volunteering your time. A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Artemisia Gentileschi, a shero of the ancient times, was an Italian painter and is considered one of the greatest and most progressive artists of her generation. Originally from California, Harriet Chalmers Adams lived a life that saw her travel through South America, Asia, and the South Pacific. Artemisia Gentileschi. Shero Explorers.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

For the relationship level, AI chatbot provides greetings and routes teens to human counselors who then provide advice. Low risk of direct harm from minimal AI functions, but the risk of delay in connecting teen to human support if chatbot malfunctions. The chatbot has no real understanding of the crisis details.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium did something really big for the August 1 eclipse and they are all over Second Life (source: Technorati ). The majority of blog traffic mentioning the Exploratorium in the last month has focused on their coverage of the eclipse and a variety of Second Life initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. They don't generate rental revenue (usually). meetup for Elite Yelp! Other person: Oh yeah.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. 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? This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

And I’ll keep my eye out for a good Second Life consultant. 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? This article represents his personal thoughts, not a Media Matters position.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Family Art Workshops" suffer from anemic participation whereas multi-generational festivals are overrun with families. Single-speaker lectures languish while lightning talks featuring teen photographers, phD anthropologists, and professional dancers are packed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's another to have the education to support that desire, to support that change, and so we're looking at long-term, sort of systemic and generational change, not necessarily just short-term fixes, and that takes pretty profound work and education to do. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

When I talk with museum people about virtual worlds, the conversation usually centers on Second Life. And sure, by some metrics, it's the biggest, most fully realized 3D world out there, full of user-generated content, sex shops and waterslides, and a whole lot of buggy, experimental experiences. It's just the most open.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I hear a lot of terminology systemic change, change throughout the community that’s going to last beyond the life of a grant. Maybe it’s one of the teens that participate in the Girls and Boys Club after-school program, or maybe it’s an adult that has truly benefited from some of the healthcare services you provide.

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