Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Using the scientific method for experiments can yield insights about how much time and effort – whether our effort has to reach perfection or not. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Don’t waste too much time on people who will never agree with you.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Spend the time to get this right – it’s THAT important! Component #2: A short paragraph that nudges the donor toward giving Once you’ve hooked people in with your headline, it’s time to fan the flames you’ve kindled in their heart with a very short paragraph designed to pull them in even closer. After all, donors love options!

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

Much like a developing human, our data collections have gotten bigger over time (see chart below), undergone developmental changes, and experienced the associated growing pains. 2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. And this year, it enters full-fledged adulthood!

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M+R

MARCH 9, 2023

Read time: 3 minutes I’ve been in many rooms—both virtual and physical—and watched the myriad of ways (i.e., stories about teen pregnancy); and feature major characters of color and/or LGBTQIA storylines, but those aren’t books that a child you know would read, will you speak up anyway?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

Followers tend to grow the fastest during the early adoption phase and being one of the first nonprofits to have a presence on a new social network tends to solidify their popularity on the social network over time. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens? Sulia: The Hottest Social Network you’ve Never Heard Of.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 10, 2023

We took the time to create an advanced guide on podcast analytics based on how we do it for the Whole Whale podcast. We hope that you enjoy this summary of great nonprofit podcasts and please let us know if we left some off ! Explore the Nonprofit Podcast List Tracking podcast downloads can be difficult and a bit messy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

during TIME (such as this winter, this week, this year, etc.) Help us raise $1,000 this Giving Tuesday to purchase and provide warm blankets for 100 homeless teens as winter approaches. Here is a sentence structure you can work with when creating impact goals: Help us ACTION (such as serve, build, house, feed, educate, etc.)

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Media Cause

MAY 30, 2023

2 Stay on top of the latest happenings TikTok moves at the speed of light, and catching trends at the right time is everything. This means keeping up with the latest happenings on TikTok (e.g. trending audio clips, popular videos to stitch, etc.) and the latest happenings in the world (e.g.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

While these investments may work, organizations quickly realize the time and attention needed is unsustainable and engagement is less than desired. Get the Content Into Donors’ Hands Now that you’ve created an intriguing resource worthy of your donors’ attention, it’s time to make sure they see it!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Emotional reactions captured in real-time. Watch what this group of teens did for their community. Political/controversial topics.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

Recent statistics show that GivingTuesday revenue reached an all-time high in 2022, with supporters donating $3.1 While every nonprofit will be vying for donations on GivingTuesday, launching a campaign prior to GivingTuesday helps your organization stand out and builds interest over time. billion that year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

While mobile websites, group text messaging, and text-to-give campaigns may be looming large on your To Do List, making that transition from desktop communications to mobile is a crucial and timely evolution in your nonprofit communications practices. That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens.

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Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Their missions are varied—from gender equity in the music industry to helping those affected by incarceration and addiction—but their causes are all worthy of your time and support. Mission: Girls On The Run reaches girls at a critical stage, strengthening their confidence at a time when society begins to tell them they can’t.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2011

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I spent the next six years coordinating youth ministry programs for two different churches within that time. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St. Sarah Hipolito , Program Coordinator, Senior.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Over time, pink has become the defining color of the breast cancer awareness movement. Zero Breast Cancer was founded in 1995 and is dedicated to promoting breast cancer risk reduction with a focus on pre-teens, teens, and breast cancer survivors in underserved communities. Wear and buy pink. Zero Breast Cancer.

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Care2

MARCH 20, 2013

It lends to asking why CNN didn't have experts present to discuss important issues such as why weren't these teens educated about boundaries, and respect? Many critics have asked the CNN reporters why they chose to focus on the emotional and life changing effects of the rapists rather than the victim.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The 50 nonprofits listed below are tackling some of the most important economic, social and political issues of our time. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. politicians follow any nonprofits on Twitter. Humane Society of the United States :: @ HumaneSociety. Junior Achievement :: @ JA_USA.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Non-Traditional Giving Days for Your Next Fundraiser. to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

These potential donors are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. Here’s some examples of 10 big time philanthropists who are kids, including a 13 year old who raised $600,000 for charity.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 8, 2019

Swift Youth Foundation is an organization that focuses on supporting the social and emotional development of youth and enhances social awareness and leadership skills for teens through mentor relationships. Club Swift is an after-school program for teens in North Phoenix.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Every volunteer wants to feel valued, whether a senior or teen. Screening and Onboarding: When screening and onboarding volunteers, take the time to really understand and document what motivates them. But it would be wrong to assume that only young volunteers are interested in mattering. The upshot is: mattering matters!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

By the time she was hired as a proofreader and scanner in December 2008, Mayrie had played a key role in contributing more than 1,000 accessible books to the collection. She said her primary motivation when starting out with Bookshare was to help provide timely books for young adult and teen readers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

They were too busy working and keeping a roof over our head to have time to deal with their mental and emotional issues,” he said in episode five of the Force Multiplier podcast. It’s easy to see why: One in seven American teens is estimated to have a mental health condition, and 76% of students say wellbeing is a top challenge.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Transgender teen Ali Forney fled his home at age 13. The automation that Norton provides saves Parratto and the organization considerable time and effort. He bounced from foster home to foster home before ultimately ending up on the streets. Forney was murdered in 1997.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook. You don’t see anything on MySpace that you don’t see on prime time television each night. MySpace is not dangerous.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

How will you grab the attention of your donors when their inbox is already full and they barely have time to read what’s already there? For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Writing fundraising emails is not hard, it just takes time and attention to detail.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

While this is a staggering growth rate for any app, only time will tell if Meta can take down Twitter. We wanted to take some time to share our thoughts on the platform so far. All in all, this has left many organizations and users wondering if it’s time to ditch Twitter. Why is Threads Being Released Now?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. Milliennials also value privacy and time away from mobile and social media, reading print copies of books, and regularly visit libraries. Generation X (Born 1965–1979, Currently Ages 35–49).

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Care2

MARCH 19, 2012

We talk to a lot of people who want to improve the way their organizations use technology, but who feel innovation is a luxury that limited staff time and budgets won’t allow. She began using text messages to communicate with them, and her free solution has substantially increased the number of teens attending programs.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

If you skip on preparation, you will end up with a house of cards that can come tumbling down at any time. Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Take the time to clearly define your brand so you can easily use it to help you raise awareness.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

Staff time and budgets are limited, and improving the different ways they use technology seems out of reach. One small organization, for example, is using text messages to communicate with teens who participate in a mentoring program. Her simple, free solution substantially increased the number of teens who attend programs.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Do you have specific times throughout the year when everyone is talking about annual giving? This is the perfect time to create a Friends Asking Friends website to ask your board, campaign chair, staff and volunteers to share why they love your organization with friends and family. Annual Campaign. Special Projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

It’s also worth sending a postcard campaign to your one-time donors asking them to become monthly donors. In email fundraising appeals, send a pitch to one-time donors asking them to upgrade to become a monthly donor. Also, with organic reach at an all-time low, your nonprofit should invest in social media advertising.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

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