Remove Childhood Remove Children Remove Fun
article thumbnail

Slacktivism: Can Cartoons Raise Awareness or Just Make Us Feel Good?

NetWits

In an effort to raise awareness for child abuse, thousands of Facebook users changed their profile photos to one of their favorite childhood cartoon characters (full disclosure: mine was Underdog.) This is for a campaign against violence on children.&# If it’s not fun, rewarding, or cool, viral campaigns rarely take off.

Awareness 199
article thumbnail

ChatGPT & Google Gemini Identify Four Essentials for Successful Nonprofit Giving Campaigns

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Success Factors: Public Engagement: The challenge was simple, fun, and encouraged user-generated content, leading to massive social media engagement and celebrity participation. Patient Focus: Highlighting the impact on children creates a strong emotional appeal and motivates giving. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ) Featured St.

Campaign 260
professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Metafy founder Josh Fabian caught the attention of 776 by building in public

TechCrunch

” As Fabian explained at TechCrunch Disrupt, Metafy has a pretty fun founding story. Once a competitive Yu-Gi-Oh player in his childhood, Fabian was working as a lead designer at Groupon when he became obsessed with mobile gaming. In just six months, he made $40,000.

article thumbnail

How to Use Storytelling for Nonprofits to Tug Heartstrings and Raise Funds

Get Fully Funded

For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. For example, our plot is that many children eat one meal a day and do poorly in school. They’re just overall happier children, and their success at school sets them up for success later in life! What is happening in your hero’s life?

article thumbnail

Popchew cooks up creator partnership approach to digitally native, local food brands

TechCrunch

The idea for the company stemmed from Parikh’s childhood growing up working at his uncle’s restaurant and Sopchak’s background in the hospitality industry. They felt food was fun, but that the $40 billion food delivery market could be opened up to help creators expand their personal brand, connect with fans and create a new revenue stream.

Local 91
article thumbnail

Creativity in Education (and Life) Can Change the World

Have Fun - Do Good

Some of my best childhood memories are from going to public grade school. Making friends was hard, but learning was fun. If I had children, I'd sign them up too. When I think of school, I think of: Creating a paper mâché Loch Ness monster and painting it red, white and blue to be the USS Nessie. Wish by me (: Share

article thumbnail

How four-person startup Luminopia is using TV to treat lazy eye 

TechCrunch

Lazy eye is the most common childhood form of vision loss, and affects about three out of every 100 kids. . One study conducted in a hospital in Saudi Arabia surveyed 37 families with children who were using eye patches to treat amblyopia. There’s some evidence that lazy eye treatments are hard to stick with.