Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

At the time, Rufina was the CEO of Nasscom Foundation and transforming the nonprofit technology sector with her incredible networking, scaling, and capacity building skills. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? One thing that I loved was the playground.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Everyone loves a good story, and your skills in storytelling for nonprofits can make the difference between getting big bucks and donation requests that fall flat. For our fictitious story, the plot is that many children only eat one meal a day — dinner. The good news is that great stories are all around you. Your donation of $7.32

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

Writing is a skill learned early in life, and most of us disliked writing and grammar classes as much as we disliked eating vegetables. Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. These are fun and gradual ways to improve writing skills.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

According to Theirworld, if the annual funding gap is not met—and there are no plans or proposals to address the gap currently—more than half the world’s children are at risk of failing to attain basic literacy skills by 2030. According to Theirworld, the coronavirus pandemic at its peak forced more than 1.6

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

We recently shared how the American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO) used Teespring to raise over $43,000 through Teespring campaigns. We produce and distribute informational materials for free for families with children with cancer, so a lot of what we do is give things away. " Here are ACCO's tips for using Shopify.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

This early childhood program initially serves 400 preschoolers and their families, providing them with up to 40,000 eBooks and learning apps. Pogo Park is transforming three neglected parks in Richmond California into magical play spaces for 8,000 at-risk children. They specialize in providing both hard and soft job skills.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 13, 2021

Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Grounded in the belief that all children should have access to quality healthcare, ALSAC and St. Jude, since the beginning, have provided care for children regardless of race, religion, nationality, or socioeconomic standing. Families whose children are treated at St. Between St.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 18, 2009

Tell me something in your childhood that you wished were different and go toward it." --Rosie O'Donnell, AWEARNESS Feeling blue? Whether you are a college graduate, recently unemployed, or just want to figure out how to use your skills to make a difference, I think AWEARNESS will inspire you. It's my favorite read so far this year.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

Squarespace, Weebly, and Wix are do-it-yourself sites designed for people with no coding skills. Primary colors evoke childhood and optimism. But for some organizations, such as those that work with children in foster care, women fleeing abusive partners, or those serving undocumented immigrants, the issue is just too sensitive.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

In New Mexico, the Thornburg Foundation convened a group of funders working in early childhood education and maternal health to advocate for more state support for effective, evidence-based programs. Over time, the funder coalition partnered with the state to better coordinate government programs serving young children and families. .

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

Youth organizations like yours don’t just help kids live happier, healthier childhoods—you prepare them for the future! And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. Nonprofit in action: This next example was designed with children and families in mind. The work you do is invaluable to generations of people.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

SEO is a valuable skill, but there’s a lot to it! Some of these strategies require learning new skills. An organization that focuses on childhood education could host a virtual story time and include coloring pages parents can print for their children. And that’s okay!

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

[Cover Images: Little Brown Ink, First Second/Macmillan] Graphic novelsa term interchangeably used with comic booksare particularly popular among young children still building their literacy skills. Surveys show that in recent years, graphic novels have increased in popularity by 69% among elementary school children.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

Green room discussions involved topics like how much screen time is too much, and at one point, guitarist Andy Ross pauses our interview mid-sentence to call his children before they head to school.) Shot on Mini DV Tape in the backyard of Kulashs childhood home in Washington, D.C.,

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2022

Grant writing tip: While the task of writing a proposal often falls on the shoulders of a project manager or grant writer, anyone—even an outside consultant—with the proper skills could write the proposal. Areas served: Worldwide (communities where IGT operates). Costco Wholesale. Areas served: Worldwide (communities with a Costco).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

If you include school-age care and education for all children under 18, that number grows to $212 billion. In 2020, only $171 million was invested in care and early childhood education. Caring for and educating young children takes training, skill and love — it cannot be done by a computer.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Things which seemed universal to me as a boy were in fact very culturally specific to my childhood in southern England and wouldn’t have had any resonance even twenty miles across the English channel in France where their Noël celebrations differ widely. I didn’t realize as a child how traditions vary across the Christian world.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2021

Are employer-led up-skilling and a renewed interest in self-improvement enlarging edtech’s TAM? Employers cite skills gaps as a top 3 business concern to stay competitive. That said, a minority of parents are certainly rethinking education after witnessing what their children were actually learning every day for a year.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 12, 2022

Child labour is a violation of every child’s right to a childhood. When children can not achieve their full potential, it tears at a countries’ social fabric and directly diminishes its economic growth. This means that every one in 10 children age five and over in the world today are trapped in child labour.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 31, 2022

We all have certain skills and we all possess special passions. But don’t just take it from me – Forbes named storytelling the #1 most important career skill of the future. Since childhood, we have been taught to expect a certain structure for stories to follow. Step 1: Understand story structure. A promise kept.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 5, 2025

Critics of screen time claim it can negatively impact social skills , behavior, and sleep. The mom of two children (one of whom has a disability) offers short, snappy, honest, and often irreverent reflections on everything from trimming tiny fingernails to watching war and famine play out on TV. I was making what I enjoy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 29, 2025

But she came to understand that the method, which emphasizes discipline and consequences, doesn’t help children develop the skills they need to handle complicated emotional situations. And parents who approach them through this perspective are better able to set boundaries and develop healthy relationships with their children.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 14, 2025

On the current climate and drawing from childhood lessons Obama acknowledged the tense political climate, job loss, and growing divisions among Americans. The two discussed what it was like growing up with a parent with a disability dominating his life, yet rarely missed a day of work and still managed to raise two successful children.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

Always Be My Maybe Credit: Netflix Ali Wong and Randall Park are Sasha and Marcus, childhood best friends in San Francisco who fall out of touch as they grow older. Do all moms find fulfillment in their children? How to watch: Fair Play is now streaming on Netflix.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

According to the CDC , the condition affects 1 in 150 children, which Autism Speaks translates to 67 children per day. I am not an expert on other childhood conditions, but I believe the same is true for children with Downs Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and others.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 1, 2025

An accepted fact of childhood: Monopoly is a slow game that requires consecutive snow days to successfully finish. but] they probably do have a mobile device, says Brian Baker, SVP of board games at Hasbro, who adds that children are also observing a lot of tap-to-pay in the world. Kids don’t carry cash these days.

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