Kindful

MARCH 1, 2021

Mission: Girls Write Nashville is a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program based in Nashville, TN, that cultivates empowered expression and positive community for teen girls. To work toward greater inclusivity, and to enrich our collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be. Impacting: Gender equity in the music industry.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2021

DoSomething Strategic conducted a study that showed 67% of teens and young adults have stopped purchasing, or would consider doing so, if a company stood for something or behaved in a way that didn’t align with their values. Share personal stories of your advocates and volunteers. So how can you cater your message to them? Enroll Now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. Maybe you even have a favorite volunteer and you're planning a special recognition of their efforts this week. Try 'em out, pitch in for a good cause, and who knows? Start here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. On any given Saturday, there may be up to three classes taught by MathAndCoding volunteers in different libraries in the area. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 4, 2022

If you want to support breast cancer patients and survivors, volunteering at hospitals or for organizations that are dedicated to the fight against breast cancer is a great way to celebrate Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Zero Breast Cancer.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Oranje Fonds offers both financial and non-financial support that includes training, awareness building, and volunteer mobilisation on a massive scale, assisted by one of the most sophisticated digital marketing platforms out there. In fact, it would currently take at least 40,000 volunteers to provide buddies to everyone who needs one.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Nowadays, churches often have their own volunteer or hired photography team to record and capture imagery at events or services. If you’re hosting any church volunteer, fundraising, worship, or children’s events, add a photo release form to the registration form to stay ahead of the curve. Image Release. Sports Events.

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Neon CRM

JULY 13, 2023

More people are giving, volunteering, and being inspired to participate than ever before. To do this, mobilize your organization’s current donors, volunteers, and staff by providing a graphics package they can use as they share your fundraiser with their networks. Here’s a great example: “Did you know that 1 in 4 teens in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Mayrie was a Bookshare member, volunteer and staff person, who contributed hundreds of books to the Bookshare collection and provided invaluable guidance to our volunteer crew for many years. 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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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

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. 20th : Volunteer Recognition Day — #VolunteerRecognitionDay. 3rd : Good Deeds Day — #GoodDeedsDay.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Say THANK YOU in big letters, followed by a sincere note of appreciation that says something like: “Thanks to you, more teens will be able to attend school and plan their careers. More teens will have the support of loving mentors and other teens who share their goals.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Help us pack 750 lunches in 24 hours by volunteering with Meals on a Mission this GivingTuesday ! Help us raise $1,000 this Giving Tuesday to purchase and provide warm blankets for 100 homeless teens as winter approaches. Highlight specific financial goals . Financial goals should also be framed through impact.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Nonprofit Asks Local Teens to Showcase Their Good Deeds - Naperville, IL Patch: "Giving DuPage is kicking off its first video contest and encouraging teenagers to share their love for volunteerism on camera. Students can submit videos through April 8 explaining why they volunteer, where they volunteer and what they like about it."

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AFP Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Nonprofit Asks Local Teens to Showcase Their Good Deeds - Naperville, IL Patch: "Giving DuPage is kicking off its first video contest and encouraging teenagers to share their love for volunteerism on camera. Students can submit videos through April 8 explaining why they volunteer, where they volunteer and what they like about it."

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

It's a surprising fact that volunteer designers don't want a blank slate for their creativity. 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.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 2, 2022

Most nonprofits supplement staff labor with volunteer support. Volunteers tend to fall into one of two categories: key volunteers, who envision and plan the event, and episodic volunteers, who do the day-of work or small tasks around the office. Think about all the teens that need community service hours!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. When I was in the third grade, I volunteered to bake cupcakes to help fundraise for Lucy the Elephant (who thankfully survived super storm Sandy ). Generosity is baked into my DNA and I can’t help it. I grew up at the Jersey Shore.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids. We're working on becoming a member program of Oregon Mentors.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Mobilize your volunteers to share your cause with their friends and family using a team structure. 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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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. MathAndCoding volunteers are now doing this at more than 12 libraries in the region. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens. million revenue per year.

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Wild Apricot

APRIL 25, 2010

The first of three training videos produced to guide the volunteer moderators who helped run the British Columbia Library Association's 2009 Teen Reading Club, Moderating Forums is jam-packed with down-to-earth advice and guidelines for creating, nurturing and moderating a successful online community. read more ).

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Recruit volunteers, 3. Each vendor will volunteer as a peer-to-peer recruit and compete to raise the most money with their services. If you find yourself unable to fill a job role, you’ll need to rely on volunteer help. To find volunteers, send an email to your entire member base to gauge interest. Determine a goal, 2.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

These steps make up the path organizations usually follow as they’re trying to encourage one-time donors to get more involved with their organization—like volunteering, creating a recurring donation, or increasing their financial support—sometimes up to the point of making a major gift or bequest.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

As kids become teens, encourage them to volunteer with your organization. Do you have a young curator’s program or zookeeper-in-training type of program for tweens and teens? Could your teen volunteers help run the kids programs? Youth leadership and volunteerism is a great way to keep families involved.

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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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Achieve

MAY 15, 2014

My own burst into consciousness came about as a pre-teen after seeing how the racist policies of the South African government demeaned most of its people. In our teen years we talked a lot, imagined what we might do, and later on worked with others to bring about change in that terrible system. Volunteer; check it out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

It should also detail as least three actions that your donors and supporters can take on the awareness day, such as make a donation, sign a petition, share the page with their social networks, become a volunteer, and so on. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

Work with a volunteer from your congregation to create t-shirt designs that you can sell on print-on-demand sites like Bonfire or TeeSpring. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. Additionally, they can volunteer to do chores for neighbors like washing cars or mowing lawns.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. More than 75% say they will regularly give to charity, versus 63% in 1989, according to a nationwide survey by the Girl Scout Research Institute of 3,263 students in grades three through 12."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2009

Did you know that volunteering in hospitals is one the oldest volunteering traditions in the United States? I didn't, until I talked last month with Joan Cardellino, the Director of Volunteer Services for the California Association of Hospitals and Health Systems. Recognition (i.e.posting stories about volunteers online).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

One donor made a special offer to our top volunteers, those who have provided at least 150 books to Bookshare: that they could request any one book and we'd (not they!) Our Volunteer Coordinator, Pavi Mehta, sent me this email last week and I thought it was definitely blog-worthy! I am so happy to be able to volunteer for bookshare.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I shared an overview of networks for social change and some of the challenges that nonprofits face in embracing the data. I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES! 2013 nten challenge Fundraising givingtuesday'

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