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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

Victims of such exploitation often believe they are messaging with another teen and eventually share a graphic or explicit image of themselves. Adults can access the educational materials for free. The person then threatens to make the picture public unless the victim pays them.

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Pheed and Sulia: Two New Social Networks for the Nonprofit Early Adopters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, the National Wildlife Federation was an early adopter of Google+ and now they have more followers on Google+ than on Facebook and Twitter combined. Related Links: Free Webinar on April 18: 11 Steps to Launching a Successful Social Media Strategy for Your Nonprofit. Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens?

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Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. Last year March at SXSW, at the Future of Nonprofits, I predicted that in the future we’d have many free agent, teenage do gooders like Mark Horvath that nonprofits will engage with. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. The good news is: there are thousands of sites serving free summer meals to low-income youth. That's when the federal Summer Food Service Program steps in, offering nutritious, free summertime meals to low-income school-age youth.

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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Teens As Free Agents. One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! ” Philantroteens.

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Why Now is the Time for Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Invest in Digital

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. Opening doors. About the Author. Sara Leutzinger.

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12 companies with online solutions for big offline problems

The Next Web

Boloco had a customer who got a $65 parking ticket while getting a free burrito. Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Until now, it was very tough to have a great idea stand out — your product might shine in a local market, but rarely nationally without big marketing spend. Totally irrelevant, but went the extra mile!

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