Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Here are some highlights from our post-event nonprofit survey (Total nonprofits who completed the survey as of 12/01/11 = 380): 61 percent of respondents said social media worked best for promoting Give to the Max Day (79 percent said sending out email promotions worked best. 79 percent of respondents were female.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

A simple audience survey to learn: How is your target audience using their mobile phones? Certainly, these and other questions would be a good start for a survey. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits. Maybe that first step is research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

From the looks of our post-event survey data and Google traffic reports, social media played a big part, particularly Facebook. Here are some highlights from our post-event nonprofit survey*: • 55.4 And, here are some highlights from our post-event donor survey*: • 61.2 Survey remains open. About Jeff.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. One survey participant referred to her phone as a "lifeline," further adding: "With a reliable cell phone, I will be able to function as an independent person."

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

For this reason, the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) commissioned primary research to survey consumers about text-to-give fundraising for the benefit of the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada and charities that use mobile giving. Research firm Quorus Consulting Group polled 2,003 teens and adults in April 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

As Wyman’s Teen Outreach Program® began to be replicated across the nation, the need to capture learning in a more sophisticated way grew right along with the growth of replication. There are lots of ways to collect data on the current practices of your organization- common best practices are surveying and interviewing.

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AFP Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Overview Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who (..)

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Is there a survey? This is an appropriate place to state that your organization does not discriminate based on race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation. What is the minimum age required to volunteer with this organization? Does the parent have to accompany them?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2015

It might seem scary that the future of the nonprofit sector will soon be in the hands of teens and college graduates who seem to only care about whatever is displayed on the screen of their smartphone or tablet. workforce—84% of the 1,584 millennial workers surveyed made a charitable contribution last year.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Serving as many teens as possible through your youth program is not a goal. How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three? There may be more teens in your community that need support. Survey your community for ideas for long-range goals. As is doubling the number of food boxes you give out in a year.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

One pair of girls did a survey in a grocery store about whether "the grass is always greener on the other side." For me, the experience changed my perspective on what teens want from social environments and encounters.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 23, 2019

The teens coming into adulthood are more likely than adults (57% vs. 49%) to pay more for brands that support the causes or organizations important to them. For example, the New England Museum Association Membership Survey uncovered that 67% of Museums use both email and mail to contact members to remind them to renew their membership.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

One way to foster this begins with open dialogue discussions for staff to ask questions, surveys to learn about attitudes and pre-existing skill level, staff-wide training, and dedicated staff time. Whole Whale has been working with Power Poetry, the largest online platform for teen poets in the U.S., But you can also make it fun!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

To clarify, the statistic does not come from a random population-based survey. In contrast, the data suggests that young men, particularly teens 15 to 19 were at the greatest risk for forced recruitment as combatants. Surprisingly, older men were at greater risk for being killed or subject to looting violations than younger men.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

billion ( National Retail Foundation 2017 Survey ) Father’s Day: $15.5 billion ( NRF 2017 Survey ) Halloween: $9.1 billion ( NRF 2017 Survey ) Easter: $18.4B ( NRF 2017 ) Valentine’s Day: $18.2 billion ( NRF 2017 Survey ). Claiming the Day. Partner with a Local Florist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

The share of adult internet users who have a profile on an online social network site has more than quadrupled in the past four years -- from 8% in 2005 to 35% now, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project's December 2008 tracking survey. Boomers are just as likely as Generation Y to make travel reservations online.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest). It's very relational.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

DoSomething.org has a big social change goal: To harness teenage energy and unleash it through national campaigns on causes teens care about. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 23, 2023

Visitors can choose whether they are a parent, teen, educator, alum, or supporter. You can also create short on-site surveys to gather direct user feedback. From there, they are sent to a detailed web page with all the information they need to know to get more involved. Update your personas by: Collecting ongoing user feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. It is ongoing.”. A Culture of Iteration. Text Crisis Line.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2017

adults, a recent YouGov survey still found that 28 percent of adults use the same passwords for most of their online accounts. Find out how TechSoup and Symantec are making a difference in the lives of at-risk teens. Source: Digicert , May 2014). Despite a small sample size of 1,110 U.S. Source: Business Insider , October 2017).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Not only do they aggregate existing data, they do a bi-annual phone survey to tackle questions like "have you been discriminated against in the last year?" Want to know the demographic spread of your county?

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 7, 2011

This immigration paradox has contributed to the teen pregnancy rates among Latinas, which is currently higher than any other major race/ethnic group in the U.S., National youth gang survey analysis. More specific to deviant behavior, research suggests that the more acculturated Latinos are (i.e., Retrieved May 5, 2011. ^ [2] Hook, J.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Do y’all know what that is? What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

If you have a tween or a teen, I’m sure you’re familiar with TikTok. And if we don’t, we need to talk to them more, do some surveys, figure it out. I ran a takeover for Boston Public Schools around college month and of course, they are not going to give away the keys to all the teens. Okay, TikTok now.

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