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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

They are active in our communities, in our schools, and have valuable knowledge and experience that our nation’s elected officials could learn from and be inspired by, and yet very few U.S. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) :: @NationalCASA.

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TikTok parent ByteDance adds time limit for kids under 14 on its video app in China

The Verge

The app’s youth mode keeps it in line with the Chinese government’s new restrictions on access to video games for younger children. Teens under 14 will be able to access Douyin between 6AM and 10PM, but won’t be able to use the app outside of that window, the company said.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

Get Fully Funded

It takes careful strategy and deep knowledge of your donor to get the results you’re looking for. For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Because of supporters like you, we were able to provide a stable home for them and their three children during a financially difficult time. “We

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What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children's job prospects as adults. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

With lines of code projected on a screen, these children listen intently in a conference room at the Mountain View Public Library, as part of a four-week course on programming. It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. The parents told her they felt okay about what their kids were learning but were concerned about their children''s job prospects as adults. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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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. There’s so much knowledge and information that they are intimidated when they come in the museum. Learning Science by Design. That’s the doorway into the 21st center.

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