Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2012

When I saw DoSomething.org CEO Nancy Lublin’s TED talk about creating a national Crisis Text Line for teens, I knew I wanted to be a part of this effort to reach teens using the medium they now love most – SMS. In other words, we needed to do some serious coalition building. Get together in person.

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Blue Avocado

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. That means that, despite the long history of human civilization, 90% of the data in existence today was created in just the past two years.

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The Verge

JUNE 11, 2021

Darnella Frazier — the teen who used her smartphone to film the video of George Floyd’s murder in May 2020 that sparked a wave of Black Lives Matter protests worldwide, which culminated in the murder conviction of former police officer Derek Chauvin — will receive a special citation from the Pulitzer Board.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

Its Community Product Group will focus on privacy and safety issues “to ensure the safest possible experience for teens,” Shah wrote in the post. Mosseri would oversee the project along with vice president Pavni Diwanji, who oversaw YouTube Kids while she was at Google. TikTok precursor Musical.ly was fined $5.7

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Mental illness doesn’t work like measles Reports of teens developing tic-like behaviors after watching TikTok videos highlight something most of us don’t consider about mental health: symptoms can be social. The plight of the TikTok teens suggests we’re in the middle of another revolution in the language of distress today.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Liquid Death For giving the brand collab new life In a scene straight from the 90s, two girls fawn over a heartthrob in a teen magazine. But Owolabi used the data skills he honed while playing the game to help Bromley achieve its best season ever, getting promoted to League Two for the first time in its 132-year history.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

to plan a monthlong peer-to-peer fundraising campaign: February = Black History Month, American Heart Month, Oral Hygiene Awareness Month, Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month, Eating Disorder Awareness Month. It might be the day you incorporated as a nonprofit or the date of an important milestone in your history.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2014

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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JUNE 21, 2011

Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Ruth Cohen – American Museum of natural History. For years we have been producing digital media to fulfill our mission of educating the public about science and history.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

-based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. So being able to serve kids, teens and adults holistically inside one company globally is really exciting.”

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

Previously, any user could be targeted based on their interests and activity; information that Facebook collects from across the web , not just its own properties, analyzing individuals’ web browsing history, app usage, and the like. It also blocked adults from messaging teens who don’t already follow them.

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Care2

DECEMBER 13, 2009

The oldest Millienials are approaching 30 and the youngest are about to be teens. All nonprofits should be aware that Millienials are: The most ethnically and racially diverse youth in US history. Starting out as the most politically progressive age group in modern history. What does this mean for your nonprofit?

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Alongside its changes to ad targeting, Google also says it’s expanding safeguards to stop “age-sensitive ad categories” from being shown to teens. Users under the age of 18 will also no longer be able to turn Location History on in their Google Account settings (Google says the setting is already off by default for all accounts).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

It’s a move informed by two trends: passive data collection, and a burgeoning mental health crisis in teens and young adults. . In some sense, Ksana Health is somewhat reminiscent of a cadre of software betting that improving mental health is partially a factor of increased vigilance of digital life, particularly among teens.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. Apps Made by Youth.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

Anonymous social apps have a history of devolving into bullying and harassment, ultimately leading to their failure. He’s seen the latest trends among teen apps, but believes there’s potential to do anonymous social in a way that’s safer without enabling bad behavior.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And for today’s Black History Month recommendation, we suggest Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. AWS says growth dropped to mid-teens as customer cost-cutting continues , by Ron. Ford left ‘$2B of profits on the table’ in 2022 , by Kirsten. Amazon ramped up content spending to $16.6B in 2022 , by Lauren.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Cannabis has a complicated history in the island nation. So as a teen, I was the first to report my classmates if they smoked ganja,” said Buwanka, who only wanted to reveal his first name. While his customers come from all walks of life, Dinesh said that most of them are teens. Plus my boyfriend works in the police. It’s cheap.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 30, 2009

The One Year Devotionals For Teens 29. The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia. Twin of Ice 25. Any books by Michael Feldman 26. Any books by Michael Perry. The Mysterious Benedict Society and the Prisoner's Dilemma 28. Hunger's Brides: A Novel of the Baroque 30. 1,000 Indian Recipes 31. The Everything Guide to Writing a Romance Novel 32.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), and Frank (Danny DeVito) star in eight episodes for this record-breaking season, which cemented the show as the longest-running live-action sitcom in history. New episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia air Wednesdays. Pen15 (Season 2).

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Less than a year and a half later, Facebook acquired it, in what is widely regarded as one of the shrewdest acquisitions in the history of the tech industry. Her 2020 history of Instagram, No Filter , is the definitive account of the app’s rise. It is now one of the most popular apps in the world and has thrived during the pandemic.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History , we''re approaching this challenge through a different lens: social bridging. Single-speaker lectures languish while lightning talks featuring teen photographers, phD anthropologists, and professional dancers are packed. Museum of Art and History programs social bridging'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. institutional change Museum of Art and History'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

This summer, I worked with the Chabot Space & Science Center on a design institute in which eleven teens from their Galaxy Explorers program designed media pieces for an upcoming Smithsonian exhibition on black holes. There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

We are hiring for a School Programs Coordinator to wrangle the 3,500+ students and their teachers who come to the museum every year for a tour and hands-on experience in our art and history exhibitions. We are transforming our history gallery to be a more dynamic platform for civic engagement.

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OCTOBER 4, 2022

History of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. If you have a family history of breast cancer, the BRCA gene test can help you determine what your risk of breast cancer is and help you develop a plan for preventative care. Make healthy lifestyle choices. Zero Breast Cancer.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

It was a local history urban scavenger hunt that sent teams of 2-5 people out into the city to track down as many historic checkpoints as they could over the course of an evening. We saw Race Through Time as an opportunity to share our mission around engaging with history with a new and highly desirable audience of young professionals.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2021

“Imagine a world where Dispo is the social network of choice for every teen and college student in the world. ” But, for an app that propelled to success off the fame of a YouTuber with a history of less than savory behavior , that messaging might fall flat. How different a world would that be?”

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

Last year, when Carson Bride was found dead by his family, his phone history showed that he’d searched how to “Reveal YOLO Username Online” that same day. As early as 2019, TechCrunch wrote that the app’s model could be open to “teen misuse.” Worries that Yolo could be used for bullying have been around for years.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Our Black history month mention of the day is Ijeoma Oluo’s “So You Want to Talk About Race,” which Haje read last year and which served as a bit of an eye-opener to all the things he thought he knew but really didn’t about how race shows up, ranging from police brutality and cultural appropriation to the model minority myth.

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Blue Avocado

MARCH 3, 2025

In this article, Ill explain all of this, and offer an elegant solution: A single investment that can help tens of thousands of nonprofits for decades to come, change the course of the entire nonprofit sector, and write history. Other examples involve teens that run away while staying in group homes. This is not insurable.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

Include your mission and vision statements, a brief history, and a summary of your programs and services. Can a child or teen volunteer with their parent’s permission? This letter is the first thing the volunteer will see, so make it count! You can also include a list of staff (if any), Board members, and key partners.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2023

Additionally, internal leaks from Instagram have shown that the platform is aware that it can be harmful to young teens, especially young women. This includes information such as a user’s health and level of fitness, purchases, contact info, browsing, search history, and other personal or sensitive information.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

They have an open collections policy, and they see media artifacts as objects that connect people--to art, to history, to politics, and to each other. PieLab resembles other community development projects: it employs struggling teens, provides local entrepreneurs and organizations with space and support, and brings together diverse folks.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

I will always remember when Robin Dowden of the Walker Art Center told me that she knew their teen website was working because she thought it was ugly and impossible to navigate. Instead, I hear this phrase used to defend traditional formats and content in the face of change. I hear "don''t give people what they want, give them what I want."

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TechNode

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

EVs now account for only 7-8% of new car sales in the segment priced from $80,000, lower than the “low teens” growth rate baseline estimated by the company, Feng acknowledged. Yet he continued to tout strong growth potential in the worlds biggest auto market.

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