Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Facebook has the highest ROI and it is worth investing $100-500 in a test advertising campaign for your monthly giving program. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens. Large nonprofits have expert staff and the resources necessary to embrace and test emerging trends. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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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? If you are located outside the U.S.,

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. David Almacy, Senior Vice President at Edelman. Tammi Marcoullier, Lead Strategist at the GSA’s Center for Excellence in Digital Government Engagement & Outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2016

If you are targeting Gen Z and Millennials and you have someone on staff who speaks emoji as a first language, set up a small pilot and test on SnapChat using Laura’s steps. Snapchat users share “snaps” or micro moments of their lives privately with a their friends, or as “stories” with their followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

It was a great opportunity to test out some ways to talk about performance assessment and outcomes-based approaches as David Hunter and Mario Morino. Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment. What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.”

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

They were testing the water before they jumped in—their interactions with the nonprofit after that gift influenced their decision to give more later on. Her daughter has required volunteer hours at her school; she may be a good prospect for our teen volunteer program.” Donna, mid-30s, is an author who is married with a daughter.

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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. It’s an opportunity to test an idea, to take a risk. But they’re all great.

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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. After coming up with the initial design, organizations should develop a prototype and test. Planning Your Game. Nonprofits can incorrectly approach games by thinking solely about platforms. The Cost of Development.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2015

Jack Andraka, teen inventor – Developed an inexpensive test to detect pancreatic cancer (of course that’s what all teens do over the summer, right?). Some favorites: Daniel Lee, Levi Strauss Foundation – Former divinity school student not advancing social change in HIV/AIDS.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . The program relies on multiple partners including the city of Boston, Boston University, local nonprofits, EVERFI , Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment , and others. Know your audience . Align with the goals of the organization and people you serve .

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

Put another way, the level of safeguards and testing should proportionally increase with the risk of harm to people. On the surface this may seem safe until it is tested with slight edge cases like the Washington Post did: Snapchat tried to make a safe AI. We think rule 1 should be doing no harm, so 0% is the threshold on this test.

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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. Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them.

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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. While some press on with the increased difficulty, in Simon’s play testing, some quit playing the game altogether.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I also offer training workshops on the following topics: From Me to We : Creating visitor social networks around museum content Gaming the Museum: Using game mechanics and techniques to design engaging visitor experiences The Participatory Museum : IT-free ways to turn visitors into users and involve staff at all levels as content generators and moderators (..)

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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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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? Gather staff at all levels to understand, cooperatively, your organization's key outcomes, indicators, and performance targets.

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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. A few tests going on here and here NpTech Blog Search The nonprofit techhelp blog creates a customized search of nptech blogs here.

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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. It was a huge success and it's now become an international drive , with toys and books going to children's hospitals all over.

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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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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Research libraries have been facing daunting challenges in the digital world, but not everything is digital in research and the library really wants to connect people with the curators and staff that can help them.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

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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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Classy, we put our own fundraising skills to this test with our annual #ClassyGives initiative, where our staff collectively fundraises for a nonprofit organization. your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Make it more personal to you (i.e. Email is still the best way to get donations.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

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. They are thrilled to test new programs and exhibits. Engage your members as community board members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

Because text is limited, they A/B test the messages they put out and learn. 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. At DoSomething, they were getting text messages back from teens.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

And at the Ontario Science Center's Weston Innovation Center, the exhibits are designed with visitors--not just tested by them. In these and other examples (the Walker Art Center's new teen site comes to mind), the museum specifically sets up a site in a way that is not most comfortable, useful, or familiar to the museum staff.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2017

Although their power may be limited as adolescents and young teens, their habits will become increasingly important as they enter the workforce and explore their ability to make an impact on the world around them. Should I be tested for HIV? Reproductive health is confusing and often unfamiliar to teens and even young adults.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 26, 2017

John Haydon , a nonprofit digital marketing expert, thinks Facebook has a promising future among teens. The future of Facebook for teens is pretty solid, but teens use it very differently than Gen-Xers.” The post The Million-Dollar Question: Will Generation Z Use Facebook?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Seriously, if you haven’t tested your own Donate Now button lately, do it! In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign. Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Because our visitation is highest during our monthly First Friday events, we used those as opportunities for testing. There are also four participatory experiences spread throughout the gallery: The abacus and sticker setup for the Love Styles test. Love Styles personality test. We've continued to do this for future exhibitions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. ” He talked about the importance of A/B testing, constant learning. @rauldemolina : These kids didn’t make @labanda ! jettsierra @AndresCotri9912 @iamvannymedina @vega_tweets.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Safe Zone: Politics Medical testing on animals… leading to death. cancer, stroke, heart attacks) Animal testing Hate crimes Pedophilia Other countries, not ours, are to blame for this problem. Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not? Management was horrified.

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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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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2014

So this is where that leaves us : fewer people (at least teens) are reading for pleasure, and we can assume (like adults) that they are seeking information and stimulus elsewhere, probably through a mobile device. Defining “frequency” is of course important, but so too is testing the content of your messaging.). Writing for Mobile.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 30, 2007

If you had one youth educator, would you expect them to develop and run overnights AND scout programs AND teen programs AND toddler programs AND outreach AND… of course not. A good way to test your personal comfort with this openness is to start by encouraging irreverence in yourselves. Start thinking about tagging and folksonomies.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

So that means that I sat five hours for a really, really long multiple-choice test, and have a whole bunch of credentials that say I get national certification for doing this. That’s what got me started, writing grants for environmental projects. And GPC stands for Grant Professional Certified.

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