TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Neither Acorns nor GoHenry — both of which are 10 years old — were yet profitable at the time of their last raises. Acorns got its start initially targeting younger adults, specifically millennials, before later opening its first services for children. GoHenry will help it extend in that market segment.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Facebook has put profits ahead of people,” Sen. Here’s my message for Mark Zuckerberg: Your time of invading our privacy, promoting toxic content, and preying on children and teens is over,” Sen. The Journal stories were based on a series of internal reports at Facebook that Haugen leaked to the newspaper.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

A group of state attorneys general has announced an investigation into “the techniques utilized by Meta to increase the frequency and duration of engagement” of children and teens on Instagram and the negative effects that may cause ( via The Wall Street Journal ). Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This time, Facebook is dealing with an unusually damaging charge: that the most central parts of its business — its product optimization, its content promotion algorithms, and its drive for advertising profits — are actively hurting its most vulnerable users. We now know that Facebook routinely puts profits ahead of kids’ online safety”. “We

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) wrote a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, demanding the company explain how Instagram plans to protect children. Those parents, and the twenty million teens that use your app, have a right to know the truth about the safety of Instagram.”. He later extended the invitation to Mosseri.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 13, 2023

Greenlight Financial Technology has always been about parents and children working together to help learn about our financial system, and the company’s newest offering is some of the same. Its Greenlight Family Cash Mastercard is a departure from the typical debit card most companies offer to teens. Get the scoop. Former Snap Inc.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Basically, Facebook depends on teens for growth,” Blumenthal said. Facebook also knows that nearly every teen in the United States has an Instagram account; it can only add more users as fast as there are new 13-year-olds.”. Both Republicans and Democrats shared similar concerns over the ways in which social media can hurt children.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

On a balmy Californian Saturday afternoon, 14 kids, 8 boys and 6 girls, are figuring out the profit and loss of a lemonade stand. 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.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Less than a year ago, WildWorks, the makers of the kid’s virtual world game Animal Jam , launched its next big effort with a game aimed at Gen Z teens, called Feral. One such area includes creator-designed avatars and other tradable content, which can be difficult to profit from on current platforms like Roblox, Stacey said.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2022

And while the company claims to be “in a strong financial position with many years of runway,” it adds that its shift away from SMBs to focus more on enterprise customers — and, by default, any related layoffs — will put the company “on a path to sustainable profitability over the next few years.”. Greenlight Infinity, priced at $14.98

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

The price of shirts should make your church a profit while completely paying for the printing costs. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. This encourages the kids to do better in classes and supporters are giving to see children succeed. Make the grade fundraisers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2011

And so he realized that he could start his own non-profit that would do a better job supporting underrepresented artists and audiences. One of the institutions that really impresses me in supporting this kind of social change through the arts is, strangely enough, a children's museum.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Women would be able to choose to speak to a female-presenting digital person about bra fittings or puberty problems, which could theoretically be nice for teens who don’t want to do that with a parent. Soul Machines’ Humans OS 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Go read it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

As a non-profit organization, our work with the TRC and our statistical report was made possible through the support of United States Department of State Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) and several other donors, which are listed in our report. Liberian children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 21, 2008

Workshop leaders, Katya Andresen of Network for Good and the Non-profit Marketing Blog , and Mark Rovner of Sea Change Strategies and the Sea Change Strategies Blog believe that there are 7 Deep Human Needs that you need to remember when you are creating nonprofit campaigns. I thought I'd share some of my notes with you from the session.

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Qgiv

MAY 13, 2021

And one group of people that inspires others to give is children. Nonprofit in action: This type of event can be incredibly profitable for your youth organization. Nonprofit in action: This kind of event is profitable and repeatable. Nonprofit in action: This next example was designed with children and families in mind.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

This kind of event can be profitable and provide great entertainment value to guests. This event format is inexpensive to host, easily repeatable, and can be incredibly profitable. For older age groups, convert the readathon goal to be less about books read, but pages read with donations for every hundred pages for teens.

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Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

The price of shirts should make your church a profit while completely paying for the printing costs. This next idea is great if your church has a great youth group with teens old enough to fundraise. This encourages the kids to do better in classes and supporters are giving to see children succeed. Make the grade fundraisers.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So social media companies have this weird, I don’t know, wall built around them that they are not regulated really in any way, but I think non-profits rather than leaving the platform, we can call on legislators. I just think non-profits, if they are getting questions from their stakeholders, they need to be very transparent.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

We do a garden nutrition program at our two school sites and at the YMCA site, which is basically for children, at these sites, teaching them about gardening and about nutrition. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. It's a six-week course, and there's a pretty extensive waiting list for that; it's very popular.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Do they have children? If they are families with children, seek out events with activities for kids. Is there a product the business can sell with the profit going toward your organization? Make and market a t-shirt together, with your organization getting the profits and both you and the business benefiting from the marketing.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

How a one-time investment can change the entire nonprofit sector Heres a preview of the ask: As mentioned above, NIA is looking to gain independence from extensive reliance on commercial reinsurance companies, so that nonprofits themselves can determine the contours of the risks they can undertake without regard to profit for stockholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Non-Profit Chas shares his experiences as he helps take a small non-profit organization to the next level. Holy Meatballs is Global Kids project blog - I've pointed to the posts by teens. " Learning to Give goal is to educate children about the independent sector and philanthropy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 6, 2025

A few years later, parents amplified concerns about their childrens social media usage. More and more data flooded the web about a teen mental health crisis, with an uptick in depression and anxiety. It isnt done because it will tap into and reduce growth and profit. Now, YouTubes changes are global.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Here are Katie Roof and Zheping Huang in Bloomberg : The company owes much of its success to TikTok , now the online repository of choice for lip-synching and dance videos by American teens. Twitter users misidentified the person responsible for hitting children posting fliers in support of George Floyd. Peter Slattery / OneZero ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Joe Biden’s campaign is taking over a popular Instagram account created by a teen supporter. A Facebook engineer quit today, saying they could “no longer stomach contributing to an organization that is profiting off hate in the US and globally.” Jesselyn Cook / HuffPost ). Makena Kelly / The Verge ). Cut it out, fan armies!

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

After expunging all that liberal bias, a pair of new scientific papers flagged by Ars Technica one of them by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, another agency targeted by Trump has revealed what COVID-19 vaccinations actually do to children and teens.

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