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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. While her parents were concerned about her safety, she kept going.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

For Black Americans, the statistics are even more sobering: They are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population. The Alliance is built around the three pillars Charlamagne sees as most important: teach, train, treat.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

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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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

The problem? This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee.

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Reflections of a Nonprofit Heart

ASU Lodestar Center

At some point, I decided I’d have to fix unfair stuff myself, since too many people didn’t seem to care as much as I did about world problems. When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. “Well, then,” I’d think, “somebody needs to get busy and make it fair!”.

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#GivingTuesday Countdown: One Month to Go!

Connection Cafe

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.

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Freshen Up the Sunday Morning Giving Routine With These Church Fundraising Events

Qgiv

The problem? This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee.

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