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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. What other stories, tips, or resources would you add to this post?

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

Tech Soup

The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% This means many children and teens who regularly had access to nutritious meals during the school year may be hungry or undernourished over the summer, even when there are free meals available in their communities. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

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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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. They just didn’t have the resources. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding. Disruptor: Kickstarter.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

But they aren’t going to cure cancer, reduce hunger, or improve pre-K education. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

Get Fully Funded

What kind of projects or requests have they given the most to? Here are some sample end-of-year fundraising campaign themes : Let’s Make Hunger History. Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. You can pay someone an hourly rate or a project fee and get the professional polish you need to power your campaign forward.

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