Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

You can also go directly to a nonprofit’s site and look for opportunities there. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Do you think that people on social networking and media are just teens and college students? Saga, a social networking site for over 50 crowd launched last month according to this Guardian Article. " One wonders if this site will catch on or go the way of Eons which is struggling. Source: Karl Kapp presentation.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

For a while now, social media’s no longer seen as simply a fad of teens and college students. Your social media sites should show connections to your online event or campaign and it should be easy for your supporters to connect, show, tell and share. Avoid Monotony. Take note of that word “variety” used above. Stop Shouting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. Whether a teen zine about punk music or a university journal, the Underground Library will collect it, catalog it, and share it in ways designed to help people learn more about their city and each other.

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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? If you have computers available and parents come to the site anyway to pick up their kids, shouldn’t you offer this support? Should it be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Go read it.

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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. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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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. Towards the end of the contest, it really became "viral" as more and more people linked to our Causes site.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

Hospitals need to supplement the traditional "pink lady," with volunteer opportunities for teens, baby boomers, and people in their 20s, 30s, 40s. According to the Volunteering: First Steps section of their site, in order to volunteer I need to: Complete a 2-page application. online marketing). Interviews (i.e

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. Meanwhile Randal Moss gives us some food for thought about turnover in Social Network sites. "Do young people have email accounts?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 22, 2005

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. Speaking of Cute Check out this site, Cute Overload , when you're feeling down (that's where the photo at the top came from).

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. Include "embedded assessment" (tracking hits, how long a player is on the site, etc).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. The process is somewhat involved, but fairly simple.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Many of the teens write, "learn with us. In the Web 2.0

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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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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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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. sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is.

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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. And a couple other sites that didn''t make it financially (more on that later). Over 30% of our staff statewide are either former Workshop students or parent volunteers.

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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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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

I am sure that with Google now running the ad department on myspace the site will soon be filled with endless and messy ads, that will only open a new spot on the net for the next Myspace. In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I am sure that with Google now running the ad department on myspace the site will soon be filled with endless and messy ads, that will only open a new spot on the net for the next Myspace. In terms of consulting I this myspace is the solution for teen or preteen work-forces to get a jump start in the financial world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Center Teen Addiction Anonymous Unlimited Potential I hope to see you at the presentation! I think this is a great opportunity for students! " In the future teachers should encourage Nonprofit Students to participate in events like this. I can't wait to hear from each of the 8 finalists.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I also want to share some tips about how to have the best meetings and site visits with funders. And I have a blog post here on my Grants4Good site and it talks about places like legal societies, sports clubs that have grant programs, Rotary Clubs. Our third big thing, funder meetings and site visits. This is the gold standard.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If your site isn’t pulling its weight or if you think there’s room for improvement, you owe it to your mission to make some updates. 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. Nonprofit Website Overview. Donor-focused content.

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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. Finally, someone recently told me about a web site for teachers called DonorsChoose. I never before felt unsafe in the garden.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content. How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

So she was in Juvenile Hall for about a month, and we were getting ready to send her off to a program in LA called Children of the Night , it's a volunteer program for prostitutes who are under 18 who want to make a life change and have their school on-site, and stuff like that, it's a comprehensive program. prostitution teen Oakland

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! The other two finalists are very interesting sites, but here are my thoughts on why Datamasher is very cool and deserving of your vote! by September 7th. So, in brief, what is Datamasher ?

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