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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Children for Children Foundation. Faber is a Philanthroteen.

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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

The Alliance is built around the three pillars Charlamagne sees as most important: teach, train, treat. UNICEF’s #OnMyMind Campaign Encourages Shame-Free Mental Health Discussions With Kids. Founded in 1946 in the aftermath of World War II, UNICEF has consistently worked to protect the rights and wellbeing of all children.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. Teens talk about the organizations at their local church, and thus the church creates a MySpace profile.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

A couple of weeks ago NPR ran a segment entitled, A New Generation of App Developers , discussing the emergence of creative and youthful app developers. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. " Powered by CDI , Apps for Good is working with youth in the UK to teach them how to.

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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We have dinner table discussions on why it is important to support causes, particularly programs in Cambodia like the Sharing Foundation. I was curious about my colleagues, who work for nonprofits and are parents, what do they do to encourage their children's spirit of giving at a young age? Name your children after them.

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TechSoup Global: Springing into Action

Tech Soup

TechSoup's Jim Lynch presented on a panel discussion hosted by the U.S. a Skokie Public Library program that provides specialized services, programs, and resources for children with special needs. TechSoup's SafeNight and Caravan projects are described in Making Data an Afterthought. 3D printing at your local library?

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. My focus is on how children learn science. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Questions and Discussion.

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