TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Charli D’Amelio-endorsed fintech Step borrows $300M to bring crypto to teens. Even decacorns have their challenges by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch. Egyptian consumer money app Telda raises $20M from GFC, Sequoia Capital and Block . This company wants to improve your credit by gamifying financial literacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Braeden was chosen to represent Delaware at the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge banquet at the White House. His taco bowl creation earned him a seat at dinner with the First Lady, who offered yet another challenge to pay it forward. Look out world!

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. Leaders now face the challenge of balancing immediate needs with long-term strategies in a world where change is relentless.

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Engadget

MARCH 26, 2025

The legislation is intended to protect children and teens, according to bill sponsor Todd Weiler, a Republican state senator. As it stands, the App Store Accountability Act is slated to take effect on May 7, but it seems likely that it will face legal challenges. Meta, Snap and X have supported the measure. "We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

We are looking for examples of youth blogging projects, i.e., cases where the organization encouraged, supported, and/or facilitated the teens in blogging (presumably as part of the organization's mission and goals, e.g., to help youth learn leadership skills, literacy skills, build community, etc.). I thought I'd start with you.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Google is challenging proposed laws that would require online services to implement age checks in a new framework that theorizes how technology companies should approach children’s safety online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Teens As Free Agents. One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. Together they discussed their personal challenges and accomplishments as leaders in their fields.

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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. Which leads to be open. Get together in person.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

challenger bank Current, which has doubled its member base in less than six months, announced this morning it raised $131 million in Series C funding, led by Tiger Global Management. The additional financing brings Current to over $180 million in total funding to date, and gives the company a valuation of $750 million.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

Image: 6pm in Paris] The 6pm philosophy With 6pm in Paris, the team is hoping to address many of these challenges with shorter, more digestible films and customizable subtitles that were crafted in-house to perfectly match the dialogue. For now, the team has licensed more than 60 short films by local filmmakers.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

We called it the TechSoup ‘Digital Connector’ Story Challenge. The challenge was that organizations had to tell their story with very few words – under 1,000 characters to be exact. 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.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

based challenger bank Current , which has now grown to nearly 3 million users, announced this morning it has raised a $220 million round of Series D funding, led by new investor Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Teen banking service Step raises $100M Series C, announces Steph Curry’s investment. MrBeast is also an investor.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Mission: The Tacoma Recovery Center and Café is a community of women and men impacted by substance disorders, addiction, homelessness, PTSD, and other mental health challenges. Youth Homes.

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Digital Trends

JANUARY 5, 2021

It's never easy keeping kids from boredom, but right now it's especially challenging. If you have an Alexa smart speaker, these skills can help fill the time.

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sgEngage

JULY 16, 2024

Ours is a common challenge for social-good organizations. For example, the internal theme of our summer appeal was “How ASM Prepares Teens for Life After High School.” Attracting and retaining new donors is a goal of every nonprofit since unrestricted funds are essential to our operations.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2020

Participating in public rallies is often challenging for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, especially in large crowds with many people wearing face masks that cover their mouths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

A “social branding” app for creative teens and twenty-somethings, Tagg is announcing a $2 million seed round today from Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, Facebook’s former VP of International Growth Ed Baker, TripAdvisor founder Stephen Kaufer, Pillar VC and more. Image Credits: Tagg.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Ambulatory phlebotomy : At this point, if you are building a startup involving blood you have to convince the market that you are not building a fraudulent testing service or that you want to sell teen juice to rich vampires. It just raised $20 million and, we suspect, would like us to stop making Theranos jokes when discussing its model.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2023

IMDb dataset for Tableau When Tableau and data evangelist Andy Cotgreave reached out to me with the opportunity to play with the massive IMDb dataset he and the Tableau team assembled for Data + Movies challenge, I knew exactly what I wanted to research. Three prime examples are the Rat Pack, the Brat Pack, and the Frat Pack.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The initiative seeks to support ordinary people in accomplishing extraordinary things by helping them to tackle national and global challenges. Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. The pilot phase launches this month and will support 15 New Yorkers with ideas for grassroots projects."

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Opening doors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). While young people in Africa face great health challenges, they are also the greatest force for change. I thought it would be helpful to provide some tips to get the ball rolling with our fundraising: Customize your story on your fundraising page.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2015

The vast majority of nonprofits will find Snapchat challenging. You need unique, real-time content that appeals to Snapchat’s teen and millennial user base and that requires time and resources that many nonprofits simply do not have.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2012

Innovation looks different from industry to industry — some new products improve current processes while others completely disrupt them, challenging the way we see situations we’ve put up with for so long. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. He tweeted about it and Boloco paid the ticket! Skillshare Fills a Gap.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

The new antenna system was specifically designed to increase performance inside schools, stores, high rises and other challenging signal environments. San Francisco-based Life360 made a name for itself over the years as an app that parents love, but teens hate.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. So being able to serve kids, teens and adults holistically inside one company globally is really exciting.” Second of all, it will add a number of new backers to Acorns’ cap table.

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The Verge

JULY 28, 2021

Hide teens’ accounts from adults who have engaged in suspicious behavior, such as being repeatedly blocked by other children. There was evidence that ads for smoking, weight loss and gambling were all being shown to teens ). So kudos to Instagram for taking the challenge seriously, and building systems to address it.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

But despite India contributing more international students than any other country, most firms aiming to address this challenge are not focused on India, and struggle to understand some unique problems students in the world’s second-most populous country face. There are many universities that don’t have the best branding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? And how do nonprofits and schools with a long list of demands fit this in to their busy days? Shameless plug alert!]

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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. The Challenge Of Being A Woman Leader Of Color – The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Girls Write Nashville. Impacting: Empowerment through music education.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

In conjunction with announcing Best Buy’s commitment to the fund, the company and venture firm said they would jointly launch an entrepreneurship program at Best Buy Teen Tech Centers to help develop young entrepreneurs through education, mentorship, networking and funding access. A glimpse inside the minds of tech’s DEI leaders.

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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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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. Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors.

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M+R

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Outlets like Vogue , Teen Vogue , and Vanity Fair were once considered lifestyle-only publications, catering to an audience that enjoyed light-hearted content. Lifestyle outlets continue to engage in politics. Here’s a resource we find particularly helpful, from our friends at the Vera Institute of Justice.).

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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. The Challenges and Rewards of Coding. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Kosaraju says he has had parents enroll kids as young as first grade.

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