Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

All April long, we’ll provide your organization with training and resources to tell its story digitally. Get started on telling your story with tools from the TechSoup catalog. Read about how your community can breathe new life into an old story from Connecting Up, our Australian partner. 3D printing at your local library?

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Global Action Library Contest 55

Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

While diverse in their missions, these projects all have the common threads of inclusivity, support, and access. well, that's a different story. The Institute found that mobile phones can increase homeless teens' opportunities and help them stay connected to caseworkers, shelters, potential employers, and support networks.

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San Francisco Las Vegas Project Tech 36

Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Because the letter didn’t include an inspiring story that touched donor’s hearts. Why You Need a Great Story. Humans are hardwired to respond to stories. Neuroscientists would tell you that the brain processes facts and stories differently. But stories have the opposite effect. What Are the 7 Basic Story Elements?

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Story Brain Interview Iraq 118

Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" 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. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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Teen Arts Classroom Student 25

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Apps for Improving Access. Apps can help make the world just a bit more accessible. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. The app is exclusively used by workers at shelters to tell stories about the animals and share them online. Crowdfunding Help.

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San Francisco Detroit Develop Community 36

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. The Exploratorium is great, but it wasn''t super-accessible. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Early in my career, I worked at the local food bank. Partner with a local business. If you are a food pantry, partner with local restaurants or markets. Include a QR code so people can access your website. For a self-esteem program for teen girls : Showing every teen girl how awesome she is.

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Fundraising Fund Teen Newsletter 120

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

Both attract locals and tourists who may travel out of their way for the thrill of collecting another place or experience. 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.

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Museum Teen Arts Project 20

Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

How to make it yours… Click To Tweet The biggest key in claiming a holiday for fundraising is combining an accessible peer-to-peer fundraising idea with consistency. Another quiet little secret is making sure you engage local Girl and Boy Scouts groups who are always looking for ways to engage in socially minded ways.

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Ideas Fundraising Strategy Gift 98

Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2015

Want to know how many kids ate fruits and vegetables, or how many teens graduated high school, or how many people are homeless? Now, instead of using our meager research resources to collect redundant data, we can springboard off of a strong data collection project that we access for free. Share your story, question, or comment below.

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Local Data Learning Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. 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 Hosting Model Community 22

NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Perhaps I can do some justice to the future in the way that most parties unfold: by telling a few stories. " I point to these two stories to contrast the generation gap in our understanding about communications technology. The Teen Party. But you already know this. . The Dartmouth Green. Are we paying attention?

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Mobile Phone PPT Green 81

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. So when I think about diversity, equity, inclusion, I also think about access.

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Work Management Video Slides 94

M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

In 2020, the election—and just as important, the stories told about the election —took on exceptional significance. First there were stories of the historic voter turnout, and people forced to line up for hours across the country to cast their vote. Community stories trickled up to national attention. Read time: 8 minutes.

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Media Voice Teen Celebrate 105

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

These are the private foundations that you can access, 100,000 of those. And I know some of my clients are very local. They do very local work, and it’s only the small local foundations that are interested, at least initially, in funding them. They’ll have success stories that they share.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 103

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war. and displayed in the museum.

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Museum Professional Teen Map 20

Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So this is Snapchat, Instagram Stories, Facebook Stories, content that disappears in 24 hours. Like, I don’t want to miss my favorite celebrities’ story of the day because it disappears in 24 hours, and I want to stay connected. It puts a more human face on what you’re doing, and it makes you more accessible.

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Social Media Trend Video Marketing 82

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. When I share these stories at conferences, someone always asks: what about institutions that serve millions of visitors each year? Local politics are personal, accessible.

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Community Museum Local Participatory 20