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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Earlier this week, I had an opportunity to run the social media strategy game with senior program staff at the Packard Foundation. While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that confirm the trend: young people don’t Tweet.

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Marketing for Every Moment of the Student Engagement Lifecycle

Connection Cafe

Your work attracts new students, engages current students, and delights alumni and donors. Attracting Students. Potential students are excited and nervous all at once. As marketers, we’re always trying to stay on top of the latest trends—and college-age students are a discerning audience. Hold Students’ Attentions.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Here is the first critical question to ask before you do anything else: WHY will your nonprofit exist? Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Feed people?

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Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Volunteering

Connection Cafe

Adapting to our circumstances has taught us to utilize the tools we have and find unique ways to do what we have always done by innovating how programs are structured. The lack of experience and data left many CSR teams asking questions that seemed to have no answers. 5) How do we manage security and privacy issues with our employees?

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Generational Giving at Arts & Cultural Organizations – A Donor Story

Connection Cafe

Have you asked yourself similar questions? If you have asked yourself some of these questions, here are some thoughts about how to build lifelong relationships—starting at a very young age. Build a membership program specifically for children. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh created a Summer Adventure program.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? How does turning wired students into digital citizens fit with your organization’s existing mission? Is it about keeping students safe? Preparing them for college or jobs?

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