AFP Blog

JULY 5, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: School-based program teaches kids basics of philanthropy | The Kennebec Journal, Augusta, ME : "Jack is a homeless young man participating in Portland's Jobs for Maine's Graduates (JMG) program through the Youth Building Alternatives curriculum at LearningWorks, where teens can earn a General Educational Development diploma while learning (..)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. You don’t hear about it much anymore, but in 2007 there were many stories of how MySpace was helping bridge the digital divide because low-income youth were logging in and teaching themselves HTML code. Same with labor organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes. Celeste for the studio 501c3 blog suggests this piggy bank , with separate slots for investing, saving, spending, and donating is a great way to teach kids about devoting a portion of their income to charity.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community. Is the need for more beds seasonal? And if you aren’t active, get active!)

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Craft parties.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 19, 2014

Meet Katie: When I first started working in the nonprofit sector, my job was to host learning opportunities for teen girls. Shortly after we met, I hosted a lock-in for 300 teen girls, focusing on developing strong self-esteem. Katie had also been born with a cleft lip. She was self-conscious, rarely making eye contact with anyone.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Urgent: Teens need your help to start college on time . For example, an education foundation recently sent an email subject line that read: Our teachers are refusing to teach math today! . Now , right now, and right away are great words that convey urgency without costing you a lot of characters. By midnight ! By midnight on Friday!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. Exclusive Screening of Saving Philanthropy. Don't miss a very special screening of Saving Philanthropy: Resources to Results. Click here to find out more. Inevitably (and happily) boys would steal our football from us.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Here are a few ideas: 1. Volunteer with them. I'd love to hear your ideas about how to support children who want to make the world a better place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. It will transform your emotional state, improve your relationships, build your happiness quotient, and teach you the importance of gratitude and will help you make Your Network Your Net Worth. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 3, 2016

When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. A lot of what we existed were drop-in projects—people coming in to teach one activity or work on a project and then leave. I’m very grateful to those young people for teaching me so much.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. This is a screenshot of the Giving Initiative for Teens’ Homelessness and Poverty campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer event.]. In May of 2020, they decided to start a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign to help combat poverty and homelessness.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

SVP Waterloo Region celebrated the day by launching SVP Teens, a group aimed not only at rallying youth, empowering them to “address problems facing their community” and teaching “them the importance and value of strategic and engaged philanthropy. The stories are varied in reach and focus. But they’re all great.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. While teens may not have a ton of their own disposable income, they can ask family in their social circle to give in support of your church. You can teach a new craft and supply materials for a registration fee. Craft parties.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2009

:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger :: : "Five years ago, Cyral Sheldon helped found the Teen Leadership and Philanthropy Institute, then a program of Yachad, the Greater Hartford Jewish Community High School. The aim: Over the course of an academic year, teach high-school students how to be involved, committed citizens of a Jewish community."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

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. , a Skokie Public Library program that provides specialized services, programs, and resources for children with special needs. 3D printing at your local library?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Perhaps your event is teaching a class or babysitting some kids. A lot of the virtual volunteering opportunities listed online right now include helping students, youth, and teens. Multiple employees can sign on to a video call and engage together while volunteering virtually.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Take a look at how Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte puts this practice into place with their photo of a young teen purchasing baby supplies in anticipation of the birth of his daughter, who inspired him to graduate high school and pursue a college degree. Sing those praises loud and proud for consistent support and positive morale!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Games command an audience of 97 percent of teens and and 60 percent of women, according to Pew and Nielsen reports. Joseph followed with some examples of how Global Kids creatively uses games to engage youth to learn and teach others. Planning Your Game. Nonprofits can incorrectly approach games by thinking solely about platforms.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The Call of Stories: Teaching and the Moral Imagination 17. The One Year Devotionals For Teens 29. Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity 12. Elements of Pantheism 13. Brethren: Raised by Wolves, Volume One 14. Each One Believing 15. The Structure Of Evolutionary Theory 16. Grounds to Believe: Elect Trilogy #3 18. Comanche Moon 20.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Founder and executive director Pamela Clark says, "Without GoToMeeting, there would have been no way to teach these kids." Inward Bound Mindfulness Education is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. " Inward Bound Mindfulness Education.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Having worked in the technology department for a diverse and rapidly expanding nonprofit focused on the inclusion of people with disabilities, Jeff has been a part of his share of poor decisions and “teaching moments.” American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. Questions and Discussion.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 25, 2022

Today’s teens get the message that they need to go to college, but so many don’t know how to get to college, how to pay for college, or what they should do while they are at college. . Do you help families, single mothers, abandoned pets, or teens with big dreams? Example 2: . They have so much potential, but they are lost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Why DonorsChoose.org is a Fundraising Game Changer: Charles Best started Donorschoose.org in 2000 out of his own frustrations of being a teacher in the Bronx who didn’t have the supplies he needed to teach effectively. “I’d listened to my colleagues in the teachers’ lunchroom.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2022

TikTok Videos: Not Just for Dancing Teens. The Caenhill Countryside Centre, a UK charity that teaches young children about farming and caring for animals, took this approach to share videos of the pets in their rescue program. Users with under 1,000 followers have an average engagement rate of 51.1%. The majority of U.S.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

From teaching supporters how to create Facebook accounts to ol fashioned door-to-door fundraising, Amy Eldridge from LWB, an admitted Facebook newbie, says its as much the offline as the online work that gets the job done. LWB had to teach their members how to sign-up for Facebook and donate to their cause. How did they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

  In partnership with Girls Court and The Surfrider Foundation's O'ahu Chapter , Derosier started The Spirit Sessions, a six-week program aimed to help at-risk teens redirect their lives in a positive way through surfing and other ocean-related activities.   How did you get interested in surfing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

"We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. He also described the educational projects in Second Life where young people are constructing their own worlds and are teaching other programming skills as well as social, economic, and cultural interaction. Media isn't just happening to kids.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Braincake isn’t some fakey attempt to pander to teens. It reflects the GMSP’s—and Jen’s—commitment to creating a set of programs by and for its audience: teen girls. Jen and I sat down to talk about building for teens, working the web, and the role of innovation in museums. The content starts with the teen team.

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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 “travel bugs” that Seth!

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 4, 2023

Donna: To be the premier out-of-school-time provider and leading voice for youth development in Arizona, ensuring youth and teens have the skills and resilience to successfully navigate childhood and prepare for adulthood. Donna: In fiscal year 2021/2022, we served almost 22,000 youth and teens. What has been your impact?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Many of the teens write, "learn with us. Many of the teens write, "learn with us. These teens are asking a lot of their teachers emotionally. It's amazing how much emphasis the students put on reciprocity: you respect me, I'll respect you.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. So Diane asked them, "What if I hire your kids and pay them to learn science, teach it to other people, and gain professional skills?" If you can teach science, how can you be stupid? Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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