Candid

JANUARY 8, 2025

We must teach them the bigger picture of global issues and prepare them to use their future thought leadership and resources to participate in global change making. In a generation very well-documented to be suffering with anxiety, Half the Story is at the leading edge of the digital well-being movement for teens.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 9, 2024

Meta is going to automatically limit the type of content that teen Instagram and Facebook accounts can see on the platforms, the company announced on Tuesday. The changes come as Meta has been facing increased […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

Pinterest today introduced a series of new safety features aimed at better protecting teens using its service. The features — which include things like private profiles, more control over followers and message safety controls — are similar to those introduced on other popular social media platforms with teens, like Instagram.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2014

In December, we discussed some of the latest social media stats and trends , especially as those trends highlight changing demographics on various social media platforms like Facebook. Here’s Where Teens are Going Instead of Facebook from Forbes. Instagram, Vine, and the Evolution of Social Media from Pew Research.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Through education and advocacy, the Colorado Mental Wellness Network seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to improve the quality of their lives, give back to the community through meaningful roles, and to change the perceptions of mental health. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Change the Equation :: @ ChangeEquation. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. American Wind Energy Association :: @ AWEA. Amnesty International USA :: @ Amnesty. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka. Autism Speaks :: @ AustismSpeaks. Campaign to End Obesity :: @ ToEndObesity. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

The New Jersey complaint alleges that Discord knew its safety features and policies wouldn’t actually protect its young user base and didn’t make changes. Children, in particular, make up a “significant portion” of its 200 million global monthly active user base, per the suit.

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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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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. According to Tom, Diane and the other instructors at Flying Change are very special people. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 Crowdfunding Is Fueling A Dream To Be An Astronaut. Look out world!

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Promotion is critical if youre looking for ways to secure teen volunteers. Group teen volunteers together so they can socialize in their circles. The results are healthier communities, a more successful nonprofit, and a brighter future with new advocates ready to effect change.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

They predicted that, if “increasingly fewer teens are choosing Facebook as they grow older,” the company would face a more “severe” decline in young users than it already projected. And while Instagram remains incredibly popular with teens, Facebook’s own data shows that they are starting to engage with the app less. Declining numbers.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2014

This September 3-6, NTEN will debut the Leading Change Summit. Today we’re excited to share that Deena Pierott , founder of the White House honored youth program called iUrban Teen Tech , will offer a keynote called Moving from Diversity to Inclusion: Changing landscapes of nonprofit technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

I’m at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions! Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The speakers for this panel include: Tracy Fullerton – Electronics Arts Game Innovation Lab. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

I’ve just returned from keynoting the first Social Good Brazil conference that took place in Florianapolis, sometimes referred to the “Silicon Valley” of Brasil and where the nonprofit, social good, innovation, and technology community is leading the social change movement. Teens As Free Agents. Un Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2012

Note From Beth: One of the principles in my book, The Networked Nonprofit, was that networked nonprofits consider people and organizations as part of their networks to make change. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. I also learned that being optimistic and excited about the big picture is contagious.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

To Ries, 29, an Ohio native now in Tampa, the extreme weatherincluding the bitter coldbore all the hallmarks of climate change. “Things are changing pretty drastically; just extreme weather all across the country and the world. .” About half of adults under age 30 believe climate change will impact them personally.

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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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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The comment, made on a call with investors this afternoon, speaks to Facebooks’ concerns about declining usage among teens and young adults. “So He suggested the change will be more than just lip service. Facebook usage among older users will grow slower than it otherwise would have because of the changes, Zuckerberg said.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Meta-owned company hasn’t — and probably won’t — officially disclosed these numbers, as it has spent the last several months under scrutiny for potentially causing harm to kids and teens. The last time Instagram publicly announced the size of its userbase was back in 2018. and became widely available.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change. For the first time, this year's Games for Change Festival created an opportunity for producers of games in development to get live feedback from leading game designers, educators, and funders on the main stage. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING. MOTHER NATURE. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. There is also a young reader version, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Journey to Change the World.One Child at a Time. Here are a few ideas: 1. Volunteer with them. One School at a Time.

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sgEngage

JULY 16, 2024

For example, the internal theme of our summer appeal was “How ASM Prepares Teens for Life After High School.” Over three weeks, we highlighted our college readiness program, then our career exploration program, and finally wrapped the appeal with an email about how our summer programs prepare teens for life’s next steps.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2011

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2021

Startups pitching: 1 – TeenUP : learning video platform teens-2-teens to unlock the teenagers’ potential and personality @TeenUP12. 8 – Filmustage : app which highlights breakdown elements in movie/game screenplays in seconds, changing the process from breakdown creation to breakdown discussion @filmustage.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mental illness doesn’t work like measles Reports of teens developing tic-like behaviors after watching TikTok videos highlight something most of us don’t consider about mental health: symptoms can be social. But their symptoms changed in part because their culture did. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

It’s changing the landscape of web development, design, apps, business, and everything in between. This involves concepts like how the navigation or content experience on the web changes for each unique user, or how to get the right product into the hands of the right consumer online. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen.

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NTEN

AUGUST 3, 2011

Hot off the heel of winning a Games for Change Award for The Curfew and the release of their new game, Sweatshop , we spoke to Darren Garrett, the Chief Creative of Littleloud Digital Entertainment. Can you explain a bit more about what Channel 4 does as both a television station and as an entity for change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I also want to them to discover and follow their own sense of social activism and philanthropy and become Philanthroteens , teens with a passion for social change who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or not to be connected to Facebook. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

He touched on her claim to Congress that a 2018 News Feed change to prioritize what the company calls “Meaningful Social Interactions” actually encouraged the sharing of more hateful and divisive content. For example, one move that has been called into question is when we introduced the Meaningful Social Interactions change to News Feed.

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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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The Next Web

DECEMBER 18, 2013

However, where audiences are active today is continually changing forcing marketers to adapt their approach to partnering with advocates especially when it comes to connecting with teenagers online. A tween YouTube star is an effective way of gaining visibility for a contest amongst the teen demographic.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called Facebook a “cancer to democracy” in a tweet on Thursday shortly after the company announced that it was changing its corporate name to Meta to better represent its focus on building the metaverse. Changing Facebook’s name doesn’t change what you’ve done, Mark,” Sen. They’re a monopoly.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

You can add up to four teens age 13–17 (who can shop on their own with parents approving the purchases). Also, don’t confuse this with Amazon Household, the service attached to a general Amazon account, which allows two adults, up to four teens, and up to four child profiles to share an account. There are a few limitations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

As far as my personal LinkedIn Profile , it’s mostly up to date and serves well as an online resume, but I have never had the time to use it as a networking tool (years of emails go unanswered… sorry ) and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. Unlike many teens, tweens, and Milllennials, I did not enjoy using Tumblr.

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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. Boys & Girls Clubs across America immediately sprang into action—quickly changing service delivery models to uniquely assist the needs of communities they serve during the pandemic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Girls for a Change , a nonprofit that pairs women with middle and high school girls to help them create social change in their communities, is looking for mentors in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Through this awesome after-school program, these young women are becoming true social change agents. girl social change mentor

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