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How to Create a Volunteer Handbook Your Volunteers Will Use

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Location and hours: Share the nuts-and-bolts information a volunteer might need in a pinch, including the location of all program sites, hours of operation, the main phone number, your mailing address, and your website. Include email addresses of all employees and phone numbers of those who work directly with volunteers.

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Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism

Judi Sohn

I just turned off her cell phone account because she was never using it. She refused to see a PG-13 movie until she was actually 13. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? Only recently has she mastered answering and using the telephone at home. She doesn't like to hear bad words. Leave a comment »

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Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism

Judi Sohn

I just turned off her cell phone account because she was never using it. She refused to see a PG-13 movie until she was actually 13. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? Only recently has she mastered answering and using the telephone at home. She doesn't like to hear bad words. Leave a comment »

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Big Data Without Defining Success First Is A Big Mistake

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?" This can be as simple (and potentially problematic) as the whiteboard phone example, can involve signing up in some way, or just entering a specially marked space.

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Using Data to Change the World: How DoSomething.Org Does It

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DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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What Do the Reading Habits of Teens Have to Do With Your Donor Acquisition Strategy?

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By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. It becomes harder and harder to stop looking at email, stop texting, or stop checking your cell phone to see if you have a message or a new text.”*. Find Scott On Twitter. . Writing for Mobile.

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