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Giving ADHD Drugs to Kids Has a Long-Term Side Effect That Might Change Their Minds About Taking It

Futurism

As wildly overinvolved parents shell out to give their kids growth hormones to make them taller, some research suggests that putting them on drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) may have the opposite effect. But that's not the only controversy around prescribing ADHD drugs to kids.

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Report: 1 in 7 teens exchange explicit images online for money or goods

Mashable Tech

Thorn, a nonprofit organization that builds technology to defend children from sexual abuse, surveyed 1,200 teens and young adults. Parents can also give particular attention to how their teen reacts to online celebrity and whether they understand what influencers are willing to trade for popularity.

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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Gen Z

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Children and youth, animals, and education are the top three causes that Gen Z donates to. Gen Zs have an average attention span of 8 seconds as compared to the 12 second attention span of millennials. By 2020 over half of Gen Z will come from a minority race. [ Census Bureau ]. Nonprofit Hub]. 2017 Giving Report ]. MediaKix ].

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How to Write a Killer Letter of Inquiry (LOI) to Get a Grant

Get Fully Funded

For example, lets say you’re writing a Letter of Inquiry for a program to give suitcases, new clothing, school supplies, and other support to children in foster care. So most children are moving at least 3 times in 12 months. What if you know children often carry their belongings from foster home to foster home in a garbage bag?

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22 Online Gift Stores That Benefit Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

for our children’s future. PETA focuses its attention on preventing animals suffering on factory farms, in the clothing trade, in laboratories, and in the entertainment industry. Jude’s mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other life-threatening diseases through research and treatment. Jude for anything.

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Fatherpreneurship: Tips on how to be a successful father and entrepreneur

The Next Web

This is how I do it and it might very well turn out that I’m raising little psychopaths and will one day serve as an example on how NOT to raise children. That means I have been bringing both my children to my office since, well, since they were born. I hope my children will have a better life because they see me enjoying mine.

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The Nonprofit’s Guide to TikTok

Nonprofit Tech for Good

When shelter-in-place orders were implemented, TikTok started to gain more attention from users in their 40s, 50s, and 60s. Oreo promised to make a donation to Save the Children when at least 1 million TikTok videos were uploaded with the hashtag.

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