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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% Lack of Food Isn't the (Whole) Problem. This means many children and teens who regularly had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be hungry or undernourished over the summer, even when there are free meals available in their communities.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going.

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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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Means and Ends: Who does What

BoardAssist

Now this is a big enough problem during board meetings, but when unclear boundary issues leak into day-to-day operations (as they eventually will) the agency may be headed for some PR, employee/staff attitude, and operational problems. I am talking about a true team that has the best interests of the agency at heart.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

The Generators focus on problems or difficulties that nonprofits face in their daily operations. In a moderated discussion, the guests list problems that arise in the day-to-day operations of their organizations and brainstorm ways technology might solve them. The data comes from WhyHunger , a nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger.

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Chase Community Giving Contest: The Organizations on the Leaderboard Go Up and Down

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The top 100 included a mix of nonprofits with an operating budget of under $10 million with programs in designated Chase corporate responsibility areas: education, health care, housing, the environment, combating hunger, arts and culture, human services and animal welfare. .

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

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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. Eradicating hunger in your community is not a goal. Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. It’s a vision.

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