Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is not just a community of poor people! Beauty is on the eye of the beholder and some people just like the chaos and artistic freedom of MySpace, while some like the neat clean, linear look of Facebook.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

If you only accept cash or checks during your Sunday services, you’re likely missing out on tithes from people who’d be more than willing to give. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. After all, not all your congregants carry cash ! The problem?

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

You see, most people focus just on the email itself and the subject line is an afterthought. Yet many people who write nonprofit fundraising emails do not spend much time on the subject line, nor do they take the time to learn about the types of subject lines that get results. Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time .

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

young people are developing their own creative solutions to problems. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Notes Sophie in the recent Sharing Foundation newsletter, "Not many people in Cambodia are as lucky as we are, so I decided I just wanted to help give them money to buy food and water, because I was from the country." Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Although this defining incident taught me I could make a difference, I can remember always being concerned with whatever seemed unfair, inequitable, or just plain stupid: “Why do people litter? Why would people say ugly things because of the color of someone’s skin? Why are some people so rich and other people so poor?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2014

Meet Katie: When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, my job was to host learning opportunities for teen girls. Shortly after we met, I hosted a lock-in for 300 teen girls, focusing on developing strong self-esteem. Regardless of how you start, people pay attention to a good story. Katie attended. Yes, SOBBING.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

Being a force for justice and arming young people with the courage and freedom to define their own identity. This means access and encouragement to step outside of the boundaries of what society or the world places on people based on where they grew up, what they look like, all the ways that we try to classify people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Therefore, giving back to others in this space is something I’ve have always felt was very important and one reason that as much as I could tried to connect with younger people or new comers to the nonprofit online space. Porter has great wisdom about this topic which is why I feel her book is a must read. I still am.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

If you only accept cash or checks during your Sunday services, you’re likely missing out on tithes from people who’d be more than willing to give. Your t-shirt designs should include your church name and logo so people who see your shirts know about your church. After all, not all your congregants carry cash ! The problem?

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Additionally, the people donating personally know the individual promoting your fundraiser. This determines how many people you’ll need to get your event up and running on time. There might be people within your own community who want to help. Your faith-based nonprofit has likely helped more people than you can count.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Find programs that help young people make a difference like Common Cents' Penny Harvests or Do Something. One School at a Time. Have fun with it.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

SVP Waterloo Region celebrated the day by launching SVP Teens, a group aimed not only at rallying youth, empowering them to “address problems facing their community” and teaching “them the importance and value of strategic and engaged philanthropy. The stories are varied in reach and focus. But they’re all great. A ton of creativity.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Many virtual events allow for employees to engage one-on-one or provide their skills to nonprofits in need, however, if people wish to do something together, there is always a way to gather and connect! Start by posting an upcoming virtual event on your company’s intranet and ask people to sign up for the same night.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Apps are a powerful way for everyday people to act for social good, making their lives, and the lives of their communities, stronger. 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.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There are 232 million people on Twitter, 150 million on Instagram, 259 million on LinkedIn and 25 million on Pinterest. Teach for America demonstrates this by recognizing their few and far between male pre-k teachers. There are 1.23 billion users on Facebook each month. Generation Z isn’t entirely responsible for the epidemic either.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. It's undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5 The Pumpkin Church.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

When it comes to convincing people to give, your message is everything. And you have to explain it all in a way that inspires people to give you money. But the more you work on your message, the better you will get at talking about your work in a way that leads people to give. It moves people to want to give. Harmonizes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Events like GivingTuesday are helping condition people to give online and raise awareness about the importance of giving. Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People. “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom. Disruptor: Booster.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

and I have to put this into context for people who were not at this event and may have only heard of the MacArthur Foundation on NPR." The MacArthur Foundation announced that it will be funding a five-year $50 million initiative, mostly for research, to try to understand how young people are using digital media and its impact learning.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. However, as people have been staying home and social distancing due to the COVID-19 pandemic, other generations have begun using the platform as well. TikTok has the highest social media engagement rate per post. The majority of U.S.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

   Several people pointed to Cynthia Derosier, author of The Surfer Spirit Book and recently published The Survivor Spirit : The Beauty, Passion, and Power of Breast Cancer Survivors.   I recently had the opportunity to participate in a Social Media Club workshop in Hawaii as part of Podcamp and WordCamp in Hawaii. 

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Geocaching Basics Geocaching is an activity in which people (geocachers) use GPS receivers to hunt down specific locations (geocaches). Some people use a higher-tech logging system by tracking the items online to see who has found them and where they’ve gone. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. Some people are voyeuristic, some are active.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest).

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 4, 2023

Donna: We empower young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible members of the community. Donna: In fiscal year 2021/2022, we served almost 22,000 youth and teens. Donna: I like to tell people we have three types of volunteer opportunities. What is your mission?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can''t do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don''t grow up in a white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a company with many individuals personally invested in nonprofit work, we had tons of people who were excited to act as team captains as well as a community of people who would motivate one another as they competed to help their team raise as much money as possible. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

The more you give people clear information about what is needed and positive response when they provide it, the happier and more creative everyone feels. Dottie Miles presented projects like You Are Beautiful and the Bubble Project , which invite people all over the world to embed and document creative works in public space.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

There are expectations around what people wear, what they can and can't do, and how they relate to each other that may be comfortable for whites while feeling alien for people who don't grow up in a white culture. Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. If you can teach science, how can you be stupid?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

It has become a great resource and many people are flocking to it on a daily basis. We are teaching a 3 credit course for teachers that shows them how to use the very tools you mention and more as a way to support academic excellence. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 Even NY advertising firms are getting into it!

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