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Frequently Asked Questions About Virtual Volunteering

Connection Cafe

With this in mind, employee engagement professionals transitioned their volunteer events into a virtual setting with little to no experience beforehand. While virtual volunteering may have been a viable method of engagement for nearly two decades, it really wasn’t on many CSR teams’, employees’, and nonprofits’ radars until now.

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Why Now is the Time for Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Invest in Digital

Saleforce Nonprofit

For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. In Seattle, Boys & Girls Clubs of King County shifted their operations from after school to full days, supporting virtual school to address the critical learning gaps kids are facing.

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Make P2P Fundraising Elementary for Your School Group

Qgiv

The funds you raise provide better outcomes to students and can have far-reaching impacts in the community. You can host a trivia event both in-person or virtually via livestreaming software. Junior Achievement of Kansas hosted multiple virtual trivia nights to raise funds for their programs during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Virtual volunteering carries real benefits -- chicagotribune.com

AFP Blog

Virtual volunteering carries real benefits -- chicagotribune.com: "Jeanine Handley, a graphic designer, volunteers without ever leaving her house by designing materials for a nonprofit legal aid organization. Amy Bogl uses Facebook parties to help an organization that shelters homeless teens win a fundraising contest.

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Pokemon Go and Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Centre Foundation , also a Pokemon stop, is adding this to its messaging around several summer programs geared for high school students. While the virtual success of Pokemon Go might just be a fad, it is the beginning of mainstreaming of augmented reality and time to think about the implications for the real world. A Few Concerns.

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Co-Creating Exhibits with Teens and Volunteers: The Importance of Criteria

Museum 2.0

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. "Do young people have email accounts?

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