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Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Dunn wrote a great piece called " We're The Young Generation " reflecting on an article in the New York Times about the growing use of social networks by young people for social good. Now we have a team of intergenerational wired fundraisers. All the fundraising is done in the US on a volunteer basis.

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COVID-related National Service cannot just be gap year for privileged youth

ASU Lodestar Center

It has the potential not only to help build or rebuild much-needed community support systems ravaged by this pandemic, but also — if designed intentionally — to be an integral part of the nation’s intergenerational poverty-interruption arsenal.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. Some of our best volunteers come from the County court referral system. And that means we get volunteers who are A. Our visitors are about 8% Latino.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

volunteers? When I reflected on our museum, I realized we have some inconsistencies in how we calculate attendance. Or volunteers who participate on a weekly basis. We also focused this year on working with the countywide adult education agency to start an intergenerational science program at three senior centers throughout St.

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[VIDEO] How to Tap Into Gen Y & Z Donors

Bloomerang

I know you’re super busy and you’re, like you said, volunteering all over the place. It offers an intergenerational experience. So, Dom, you got somebody’s juices flowing when you talked about skill-based volunteering. Is that kind of what you mean by the skill-based volunteering? What do you think?

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