Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Nonprofits using social media… it all started on MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1. took over MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

Note from Beth: Next week, I’ll be keynoting the “ Future of Social Media Conference ” in London hosted by Social Misfits in partnership with Facebook, JustGiving, the Hospital Club Foundation, and the Guardian Voluntary Sector Network. Helping Your Teen Give Back. “That’s why I need help from you!”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. This student-built app lets players take on the role of a ghost detective who encounters local residents who haunt the community.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Pando Projects is a nonprofit that empowers people—in particular Millennials—to step up as leaders and develop new, local solutions to the problems in their communities. Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. How do you define the words Marnie highlights (networks, community, abundance, resources)?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Launched in 2011, Snapchat is an image and video messaging app that is very popular with tweens and teens and increasingly Millennials and Gen Xers. We have entered a new era of social media marketing. Do not be lame on Snapchat. Reserve your first choice of the new domain now or regret it later.

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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! Go Abroad Want to volunteer on vacation? right where you work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Social media strategy payoff. Those relationships were strengthened through the use of social media. Our Give to the Max Day celebrity PSA video has earned 2,620 views on YouTube , in addition to being aired on numerous local and state television networks. Jeff Achen is the interactive media strategist for GiveMN.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2013

This week we’re talking #bikesandbakedgoods (a winning combination), and how Hands On Nashville used #GivingTuesday to create local impact – with 5 fundraising ideas to help you rock your next campaign. With help from the local community and partner agencies, this program works to give refurbished bikes to the area’s kids in need.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Conduct a peer-to-peer campaign with food trucks and other local vendors within your community. The winner will then get a special prize or a shoutout on social media! This determines if you need a tech team, a cameraperson to record the event or livestream it, or a social media coordinator to live tweet and post real-time updates.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . These jobs can be accessed via public transportation.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. SF Online Community Meetup: Embracing Emerging Social Media, with Lauren Girardin. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Beirut, Lebanon: Android Development for Teens.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. Let’s step back a minute and consider why a nonprofit or social benefit group wants to include social networking as part of a social media strategy.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. Toronto, Ontario: Free Webinar: Social Media for Nonprofits. Chicago, Illinois: Social Media for Social Impact: Fundraising and Customer Relationship Management. Thursday, March 19, 2015. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

They can also search for employment or job opportunities and learn about using social media. The Institute found that mobile phones can increase homeless teens' opportunities and help them stay connected to caseworkers, shelters, potential employers, and support networks. Liberating Ourselves Locally. Also known as LOL!,

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

They're all free and chalk full of expert storytellers and digital media pros. 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. The ReStart Romania. Initiative.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

The Waffle Shop is a cafe and live streaming TV channel that serves a diverse audience of late night club-goers and locals in an urban neighborhood. If you're looking for inspiration with a collections focus, the Underground Library is a compelling experimental space dedicated to archiving all media produced in Chicago.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Ready to enter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience. 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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 24, 2011

In the 1990s, we decided we wanted to engage a teen audience. We created a teen arts council, invested in staff, and invested in programming. We discovered that teens felt uncomfortable in the galleries because they had to check their backpacks and they felt the guards were watching them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Now that social media has normalized , can contests like this be a level playing field where organizations with hundreds and thousands of fans and much larger budgets compete along side those smaller organizations? AGI is a vehicle for positive social change ideas that connect people in need with people who want to help.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You may decide to ask one team member to post to social media every day to engage your online audience. For example, if you used to send out the monthly newsletter manually, or personally manage every social media post, consider investing in new marketing software as part of your strategic plan.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2009

On Thursday afternoon, our workshop fractured as curators, educators, media producers, and marketing staff scrambled to talk to press and put together spur-of-the-moment exhibits and tribute programs. It is apropos that the EMPSFM workshop was focused on how the museum can deepen relationships with teen audiences. Probably not.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consumers can ask you publicly about your social good efforts on social media, team members across the world need immediate access to a grant application, funding recipients in remote villages can provide previously inaccessible data, and more. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why Facebook is a Fundraising Game Changer: John Haydon, blogger and author of Facebook Marketing for Dummies , believes that without Facebook pushing the limits of how people use social media, fundraising wouldn’t be as social. With $300 million in annual revenues, CustomInk is eager to extend its reach into the charity apparel space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I set it up so I could help some friends with teens who are it and hopefully by the time my kids are teens there will be a different technology use pattern to master.) MySpace Isn't Local (Except When It Is) " Friendships on MySpace aren't based across geographical lines. You are friends with people all over the country."

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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. Although some local governments are experimenting with Wi-Fi clouds -- free Internet for citizens -- the technology still remains out of reach many. But there is still the issue of income.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

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Forum One

JULY 5, 2006

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

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Get Fully Funded

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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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

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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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By thinking through your fundraising strategy before October 1, you can collect your stories and integrate your efforts, keeping your messaging and images consistent through mail, email, social media, events, and any other channels you may use. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Charlene Li's latest slide deck about engagement, relationships, and social media. Good Reads: Online. blog here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes. For the holidays, she has hosted a kindergarten "angel" party where the kids were "angel donors" for families in need, depositing their unwrapped toys and gifts as admittance to the fun.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

If you can’t meet in person — as we couldn’t amid the pandemic — choose the next best media. This is especially important if you’re talking with someone who has a disability or someone who’s speaking in a second language. Typically, that’s a phone call. Email is a distant third choice because people tend to respond more formally in writing.

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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. The article references connecting with young people via social media, at-risk youth via exhibit co-creation, and urban creatives via public art installations. Be free, nearly free, often free, or free for locals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

I was glad to hear that 2-1-1, the free 24/7 confidential information and referral servic e, made sure its operators were able to help callers find local survivor support or mental health resources to help reduce the burden on RAINN and address the long wait times. (As What’s really helped me, however, is finding community and support.

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