Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

I’m looking for a place to donate in honor of my mother’s 90 th birthday, and a gift made to the local symphony orchestra in Myrtle Beach seemed like the right thing to do. As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? Fast forward to 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. Spence, an 11 th grader at ECHS wrote, “I am one of the Environmental Charter students you presented to on Friday. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. Jade Barcley, a therapist and consultant was also at the ECHS event.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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Library Digital Story Teen 54

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

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. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. All you teenagers—this is the place for you.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! 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. Meet Anne.

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Baltimore Student Arts Lecture 40

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Kelly Williams impacted the lives of almost 2,000 students at Camelback High School with her guidance and support.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

The funds you raise provide better outcomes to students and can have far-reaching impacts in the community. To increase chances of fundraising success, offer attractive prizes to the teams that place in the top three. Your school group may be small, but it’s capable of big things! What is P2P fundraising? The best part? 5K/10K Race.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." They like to do and touch and make.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Some employees are looking to engage in a quick event like answering questions for a student that takes a few minutes online, while others may be wanting to commit to a skills-based volunteering position that will help a nonprofit create a lasting strategy. Look for a variety of event commitment levels – ranging from one-time to long-term.

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Virtual Volunteer Question Disaster 29

Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

It’s a place that believes in good and helping good take over. The best news is that good is all over the place, showing up in so many forms. I argue that, if you simply look around wearing the right lenses, you WILL see it around you, among you, asking to be watered, growing from sometimes the most desolate of places.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Among the wild places Braided River has featured, millions of acres have been moved to a stronger level of protection. New Heights also uses Citrix GoToMeeting from TechSoup to connect teachers and tutors with students. Inward Bound Mindfulness Education is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

I'm fascinated by these places because of their ability to attract diverse audiences to idiosyncratic experiences, and I'm curious how they stay afloat. One of my favorite places for a long time now. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

If your organization provides after-school support, you serve students and may provide academic enrichment, social opportunities, and activities. What about your students’ families? Should supporting the families of the students you serve be part of your mission? How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three?

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Beginner Nonprofit Goal Process 111

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Today’s teens get the message that they need to go to college, but so many don’t know how to get to college, how to pay for college, or what they should do while they are at college. . The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce. The original seven students we started with are now in the workforce.

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Donation Fundraising Teen Money 121

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. The American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) is currently selling a t-shirt with the names of 3,400 children and teens who have fought or are still fighting childhood cancer. Kickstarter is a perfect place for nonprofits to appeal to small-time donors.

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Platform Giving Fundraising Game 50

Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. It was great to see grandparents, parents, young adults, and teens all working together to support orphaned children.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. It was great to see grandparents, parents, young adults, and teens all working together to support orphaned children.

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Causes Facebook Challenge Social Media 38

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Thousands of people geocache for a variety of reasons: to explore new places, to have outdoor adventures, to search for surprises out in the world. Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here.

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. In most cases, they''re not places where kids can go by themselves at all.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

One of the places I go for inspiration during my day is to the books , blog , podcast, and Twitter feed of Kimberly Wilson. We decided to start with teen girls, ninth through twelfth grade, and with the notion that that's when as a young girl we're beginning to make important decisions about college, about life steps, and about goals.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

And most contemporary museums are not only places for information-seeking. In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Museum Audience Teen 45

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

This is a great place to use your Core Number. Show what changed. How is the character’s life different now? Don’t forget the narrative. Connect the story to the larger problem your donor will help solve with their gift. Download this infographic to make sure you collect and use the 7 basic story elements.

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Story Brain Interview Iraq 118

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. It means making some conscious choices that push your institution towards being more of a " third place. " The student community? It's a place you can use. We love this place, it's our home.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 13, 2007

A museum experience I’ll always remember: In 2002, I worked at the Boston Museum of Science with a program in which high school students from a nearby charter school spent half their school time at the museum. One day when we didn’t have the students, I was walking the floor with another staff member. What does this place have for me?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. Nonprofit Programs and Social Actions.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 How about Digg ?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. The program is rigorous, engaging students in serious scientific projects as well as personal and professional development workshops. YES students defy expectations.

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St. Louis Audience Teen Museum 53

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. I believe that we will soon see a class of web 2.0 How about Digg ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Some wounds were fresh; others, like mine, were decades old or took place during childhood. For survivors, Teen Vogue published self-care tips, acknowledging that it’s hard to avoid triggers and be overwhelmed by the news. For parents, Psychology Today recently published tips on how to speak with loved ones about disclosure.

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Resource Tips Childhood Teen 81

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. Kyle had brought his baby with him.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

While I was on sabbatical at Tuck/Dartmouth in the spring of 2008, I wrote about the things I learned from students and colleagues. For one generation, it's a conversation like any other conversation; it may even be the dominant form of conversation for today's students. The Teen Party. The Dartmouth Green.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. We invited a private art school to fill a very public wall with paintings made by students in response to the question, "How would you depict love?" We spent a long time prototyping this one.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. All afternoon the students remained in lockdown inside the school. Most of the participants are between the ages of 17-25, working class and youth of color. Van Jones did the ask for the event.

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San Francisco Jordan Giving Proposal 40

DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Once you’ve got those all-important pieces in place, you’ll be ready to jumpstart your site design, borrowing a few creative ideas from these all-stars. Interlochen Center for the Arts (ICA) is a nonprofit educational institution dedicated to empowering students of all ages through high-quality arts and cultural programs.

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Websites Organization Nonprofit Game 52

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Well, actually, why are we looking for grant funding in the first place? Well, oftentimes places of employment. So it may be places you work, your colleagues work, or the bank that you go to. It’s a great place to share any upcoming events and information on issues. We want to be able to have fun with this stuff.

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