Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

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. They can be held in person, virtually, or in a hybrid format that combines the best of both formats. The best part?

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2009

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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. Something to make the virtual world better and empowering the community in a unique way. We hope that together to make the virtual and physical worlds better. to the USC folks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

As a parent of two teens, I was curious if there were any potential safety issues to discuss with them or if they had downloaded or wanted to play. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Do Something Focused more on teen activism and engagement with causes, their site offers Virtual Volunteer opportunities so you can take action without leaving your couch! Many of these encourage folks to work with kids and teens ( ) and share their life experiences!

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Virtual volunteer opportunities are in high demand, allowing people to work from home to help your cause, so include those, too. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? Training opportunities: At minimum, you need an orientation to go over information in the handbook. Does the parent have to accompany them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

And despite their youth (its oldest members are only now leaving their teens), kids in Generation Z are regularly rocking social media for social good. Helping Your Teen Give Back. More than any generation before, kids in “Gen Z” use online technology to experience, understand, and change their world.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. s three-stage view of how to conduct public engagement online, which includes: Virtual town squares, ie idea jams. Drinking from the Firehose? The White House has experimented with these several times. These are

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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 hold this event in person or virtually via a Zoom meeting. Rummage sales.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

YMCA of Greater Seattle's Kirkland Teen program was one of our test sites. It serves an estimated 84,000 children and teens, so we hoped that this lab would be a serious test of a MultiPoint Server lab's resilience. It is one of 200 program sites in this very large and active YMCA.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

" A 2011 university study similarly found that 62 percent of homeless teens had a phone and data plan and that they considered the device as important for them as food. That's why the FCC’s Lifeline Program has provided low- and no-income people with literally millions of mobile phones and minutes over the last few years.

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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. Real Virtuality had two games that were on display that augmented reality. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Syed Salahuddin – Babycastles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. Nick Booth from the UK is asking for help in promoting an internet UK-based fundraiser. Participants who enter here can win a Playstation 3 from Dixons and have their ??1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. it is grounded in both the virtual space and the real space. s the exicting thing about the work of Global Kids ???

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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 hold this event in person or virtually via a Zoom meeting. Rummage sales.

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Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 52

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Imagine a typical Internet surfer and your first thought might be of a teen or young adult, not a grandparent or retiree. Greater generational differences appear when it comes to reasons for social networking and selecting virtual destinations. Both age groups also view the Internet as an important source of information.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

Second Life isnt just about wasting time, however, nor are its "residents" exclusively teens hunkered down in their parents basements with Hot Pockets and Red Bulls - there may be real marketing potential for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. * Online communities are becoming increasingly more important to their users.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Real Virtuality had two games that were on display that augmented reality. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth.

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Game Culture Change Museum 52

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

OCTOBER 19, 2006

From my office in the Boston, I teleported myself into the Virtual World of Second Life and headed straight for the New Media Consortium virtual campus where I joined about 65 other avatars representing educators from all over the world (even Austrailia where it was 3:00 a.m. It was the ultimate digital media multi-tasking experience.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

In both MN150 and Tech Virtual, it led to us being more dynamic and flexible in our production of exhibits. But in the case of Tech Virtual, it also caused conflict as I tried to balance being a friendly, caring community manager with being the "boss" of the participatory process. This has both positive and negative outcomes.

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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. The library community has a large presence on Second Life at Information Island which is where the TechSoup SL Virtual Office is located.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Some projects engage a very small, well-defined segment of the community as partners in the process (such as the Wing Luke Asian Museum's well-documented community process ), whereas others invite open participation (such as MN150 , Tech Virtual , and Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition ) from across the world.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is. For a self-esteem program for teen girls: Your gift of $18.25 gives a teen girl the gift of feeling amazing about herself. a teen girl with a huge, confident smile. For a shelter: A compassionate place to rest and restore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

She worked in with UNDP's Volunteer Programme from 2001-2004 and is a subject matter in virtual volunteering, among other topics). She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2012

When I saw DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin’s TED talk about creating a national Crisis Text Line for teens, I knew I wanted to be a part of this effort to reach teens using the medium they now love most – SMS. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. Get together in person.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens. The Signtific game does this virtually by encouraging players to respond to each other by "following up" on other players' entries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Try hosting a virtual “thank you card” evening where fundraisers get together to write thank you cards to their donors to share some love. Make it more personal to you (i.e. Don’t be shy in adding some images and GIFs in as well to make it more dynamic!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? On MySpace, you are protected somewhat by the fact that you interact via a virtual rather than real identity. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The irritating design? The bizarre obsession with "adding" friends? Or is it the stalkers?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

There are three key questions museum decision-makers should ask themselves in evaluating the value of virtual visitors: How much do we value outreach in our educational programming and content delivery? Changing lives is expensive whether you do it with at-risk teen staff members or at-risk teen virtual partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Global Kids , a nonprofit that worked virtually with a group of youth in Teen Second Life last summer on their chosen issue of child sex trafficking, shares its best practices for nonprofits. who want to work in Second Life. These include general tips (e.g., use real world content when addressing real world issues).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

They're encouraging folks to submit proposals. (I'll be delivering the keynote, my first in a virtual 3d environment.). Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. SmallWorlds : While I'm on the topic of ning, this newest project from GlobalKids embeds a 3-D Virtual world inside a Ning site.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Well, maybe not today, but we like working from home, and so a lot of our connections are still going to be virtual for quite some time. You may want to ask for an in-person virtual meeting. Boy, if you can get a site visit even during a pandemic, or at least a virtual site visit or a meeting, it is worth so much.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. And that is a virtually untapped market for these companies, who have niched themselves as premium-oriented. You go a typical grocery store in any community, regardless of class, and there's virtually no real quality interaction between you and that business.

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