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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. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November.

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Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum

Tech Soup

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The presenters, Austin Stroud of the Monroe County Public Library and Crystal Schimpf of TechSoup for Libraries, shared resources for teaching online safety and security. Assessments/Quizzes. GCF Learn Free.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. Although there are many free and fee-based online programming courses online, Kosaraju contends that sites like Khan Academy or Coursera are more formal and geared mostly towards adults.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MySpace was and still is (for some) the easiest social networking site to grow a community quickly. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. As a regualr MySpace user, there is no denying that MySpace is more diverse than any other social networking site.

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

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Work with a volunteer from your congregation to create t-shirt designs that you can sell on print-on-demand sites like Bonfire or TeeSpring. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Craft parties.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Either way, this site provides a go-to place for prospects to learn about the campaign, its goals, and the potential impact of a gift. In other words, your peer-to-peer campaign site is what leads members to take the critical next step of giving to your mission. Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

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. It was recently touted as an Indispensible Library Technology Blog in a list of 6 library blogs on the STATE Tech site. 3D printing at your local library?

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