Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

If it were not for MySpace, my professional life no doubt would be much less fulfilling. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Stories about how MySpace would ruin your child’s life and put them in perilous danger were everywhere. MySpace is not dangerous.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

You can be their hero and change their life.”. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. A photo or a video goes a long way in bringing a story to life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Do Something Focused more on teen activism and engagement with causes, their site offers Virtual Volunteer opportunities so you can take action without leaving your couch! Many of these encourage folks to work with kids and teens ( ) and share their life experiences! For the Smithsonian ? Start here. right where you work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

How awesome is it that the adults in his life gave him the support, skills and encouragement he needed to have this experience? If you have a child in your life who wants to make the world a better place, how do you support him or her? Write letters to your government officials (federal, state and local) together.

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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 16, 2014

posted by Chrisal Valencia Member Events & Volunteer Coordinator Local First Arizona Public Allies has played a very definitive role in my life. I remembered that it was becoming a mom that inspired me to pursue a life and career that aimed to help better my community, and help shape an even better one for my daughter.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. The Institute found that mobile phones can increase homeless teens' opportunities and help them stay connected to caseworkers, shelters, potential employers, and support networks. Also known as LOL!,

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Yesterday, I did a workshop with some local teenage girls in an after school program. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? It demands a perspective that is self-reflective, microscopic, local, and grand. Can we break that down one more time? Because I'm lost.".

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. Now, as a middle-aged woman working in the nonprofit sector, I clearly see millions of people working peacefully and tirelessly at local, national, and international levels to make the world a better place for everyone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Read about how your community can breathe new life into an old story from Connecting Up, our Australian partner. 3D printing at your local library? Read all about how the Orange County Library System in Florida is teaching teens how to use MakerBot printers and flight simulators as well as other technology skills. Initiative.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

We want you to tell us how you are using products donated through TechSoup to help the youth in your community develop valuable life skills that will prepare them to take full advantage of their bright futures. The winner will also be a featured story on the Local Impact Map at TechSoupGlobal.org as a Featured Story for all of August 2014.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

Within 24 hours of the news, the EMPSFM staff hosted a tribute event at a local music venue and mounted an exhibit of Jackson's iconic glove/jacket along with archival concert video in a free public area (appropriately called the Sky Church). Do these teens need EMPSFM to survive? Probably not.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Generations X and Y -- born between 1965 and the mid ‘90s -- grew up absorbing these tools early in life, while boomers and older generations have had to adapt and orient to a changing world of 24/7 communication.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Strategic Plan 2021-2025 Boys & Girls Club of America is dedicated to providing enriching after-school programs for kids and teens. It also highlights five priorities for this three-year period that will help bring each principle to life.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. These stories are then collected on each pet's profile page at the shelter's website, resulting in a scrolling diary of the pet's life. Crowdfunding Help. It has been covered by TechCrunch, The Baltimore Sun , CBS News , and more.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2010

The spot in our building that houses the studios of the local PBS station, WOSU, often is transformed into a third place. People from all walks of life come and hang out in the space, having conversations about whatever the topic for the evening or afternoon happens to be. Some of our spaces are third places sometimes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Over time, the blog has itself become a hub of community that has significantly transformed my professional work and social life.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

Its founders, Willie and Mell Pruitt, came to the area in the 1950s and were concerned that no one seemed to be documenting the history of the local African American community. My favorite part was a wall of photos and transcribed oral histories from local elderly community members. It was for the people who had built it.

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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. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

What services would make life better for your animals? If through the strategic planning process, it’s decided that you’ll provide 10 servings of fresh produce in each food box, you can then figure out the strategy for working with local gardeners, farmers, or grocery stores to get produce donated.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

The group was mostly young (teens to thirties) and nerd-diverse: a little bit punk, a little bit hacker, a little bit craft grrl. There were some locals who stumbled in unaware, but mostly, this was an insider's event for people who know and love Ze's particular brand of emotional connection mediated through online participation.

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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25

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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. The story is about how Diane has run into trouble with the local planning board is described here on her GoFundMe page and has incurred legal fees. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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AUGUST 20, 2021

How is the character’s life different now? The best stories contain multiple news values. This is the main challenge (Ex: poverty, disease, discrimination) the character must face. Describe the conflict. What steps did the character take? Were there setbacks? How did your donors help them? Show what changed. Don’t forget the narrative.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. The best story has a photo or video of a program participant talking about how the organization positively impacted their life. Contact local civic clubs and churches and see if you can get on their program schedule during the holidays. Pitch a story to your local news.

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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. What do you want?”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 25, 2014

More importantly, a local MBA allows for business leaders to engage with each other, establish personal and business relationships, and to build off each other’s experiences. This can only help your company and you personally in your professional life. Engineering employees and their families adopt children from the local community.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Last month at the AAM conference, a speaker said, "we should all be using measures of quality of life to measure success at our museums." Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? and "what most contributes to your quality of life?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So we wanted to primarily address that issue: how can we pursue creative, innovative ideas for getting food out there that's affordable, that's local, that's fresh, and health-supportive, and then provide under that a foundation of education. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime.

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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. meetup for Elite Yelp! Heck, it doesn't even attract the museum exhibit designers.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. I was super excited about life and I was fresh to death in my Old Navy gear in the ’90s.

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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. At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 4, 2007

They were a rich collection museum with some local history—they had many dolls, a famous toy collection. One person commented about how he loved growing up in DC as a teen and generally using the Smithsonian as a playground. How can you change or adopt aspects of other types without losing your focus or mission?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - Elisa Camahort Page, BlogHer It is my absolute honor to help people find pieces of peace within, while outwardly expressing this life process though dance with our bodies.

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