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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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

It demands that we remember, as individuals, that what we do on a daily basis, on the regular — planning that Halloween carnival or participating in a homeless count across the city — matters. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. The work that we do matters.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We''ve gotten pretty good at doing this at museum programs, but it gets more complicated when we are working with a bonded group like a homeless center or a school tour.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

The free app provides a user with the nearest places for youth to get a summer meal. "We're always looking at mobile services that can help impoverished, low income, and homeless communities," she told TechSoup. It functions sort of like Yelp, Urban Spoon, or other meal locator apps.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

Businesspeople asked how we would keep out homeless people, drug addicts, and deviant behavior. We started designing ways to make Abbott Square a desirable “first landing place” in downtown—especially for families with children. We heard suburban moms describe downtown as dangerous, dirty, and unappealing.

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DipJar

JULY 26, 2022

Utah Pride is an events-based organization that supports the community through mental health services; programming for youth and families, teens, adults, and seniors; suicide prevention efforts; education and training; and a community space where people can gather and connect. The Pride Center offers a home.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Ready to enter?

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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. It means making some conscious choices that push your institution towards being more of a " third place. " The homeless community? It's a place you can use. We love this place, it's our home.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Diane told me several stories about teens who came in thinking of themselves as dumb but changed their perspective as their confidence grew in two areas they associated with intelligence--knowing science and being able to teach. YES students defy expectations.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Diane told me several stories about teens who came in thinking of themselves as dumb but changed their perspective as their confidence grew in two areas they associated with intelligence--knowing science and being able to teach. YES students defy expectations.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

As the first woman, first Jamaican-American, and the first Indian-American attorney general in California, Harris secured her place in political history. Chanel's designs revolutionized views on women in society and opened doors for modernization in France and worldwide. Kamala Harris. Sylvia Rivera. Charlotte Cooper. Future Sheroes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Give Families the Gift of a Place to Call Home. Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance. A Bench is Not a Bed .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. interracial marriage, keeping a family together while homeless) and others are more immediate (i.e. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Some want to make their community a better place. For instance, they may give to the homeless shelter because they feel bad for people who don’t have homes or because it feels good to help someone in need or because their favorite uncle was homeless for a while or because of all those reasons! That’s good news!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

As Eric said at one point, "kids--our target audience--are living in a world of things they choose to consume that is so full of sex, so full of irony, so full of subjectivity, and when they come to the museum it is one of the few places in the world they don't see that stuff. Why do homeless people smell bad?”

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Once you’ve got those all-important pieces in place, you’ll be ready to jumpstart your site design, borrowing a few creative ideas from these all-stars. ICA remedies that problem by placing a real-time campaign progress bar on their Create Amazing website. Top Nonprofit Website: Interlochen Center for the Arts.

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