Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. The story is about how Diane has run into trouble with the local planning board is described here on her GoFundMe page and has incurred legal fees. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 A Crowdfunding Campaign To Save A Horse Farm.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

For now, the team has licensed more than 60 short films by local filmmakers. Once again, I can relate as I distinctly remember looking up the definition of rooting for someone after a love triangle materialized on the teen-cult TV show One Tree Hill.) These range from sci-fi to rom-coms to documentaries.

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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. We learn in different cultural settings, even local settings, how to communicate our suffering.”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 26, 2021

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. But true to its 160-year legacy, Clubs remained a safe haven for local communities. Opening doors. Clubs offered, for many, the only safe places in their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

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. I recently keynoted the Social Good Brazil Conference in November.

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The Next Web

AUGUST 11, 2012

Lane Sutton , Social Media from a Teen. Skillshare makes it easy to find or teach classes that are of interest to you in your local area. Zaarly’s local “action” marketplace is a perfect example of a web app/technology leveraging the real world to create value. He tweeted about it and Boloco paid the ticket!

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AFP Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Nonprofit Asks Local Teens to Showcase Their Good Deeds - Naperville, IL Patch: "Giving DuPage is kicking off its first video contest and encouraging teenagers to share their love for volunteerism on camera. Students can submit videos through April 8 explaining why they volunteer, where they volunteer and what they like about it."

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. Johns Village Project is a moms-and-tots playgroup that brings together teen moms and adult moms, with all our kids. We're working on becoming a member program of Oregon Mentors.

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The Verge

JULY 19, 2020

Activists have worked with the National Alliance of Multicultural Disabled Advocates to push for the #BlackDisabledLivesMatter efforts, to spotlight these challenges, as Teen Vogue columnist Sarah Kim reported. I wanted to make sure the messaging was clear, and that we weren’t appropriating anything from the community,” Alaquiva said.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

Nonprofit Asks Local Teens to Showcase Their Good Deeds - Naperville, IL Patch: "Giving DuPage is kicking off its first video contest and encouraging teenagers to share their love for volunteerism on camera. Students can submit videos through April 8 explaining why they volunteer, where they volunteer and what they like about it."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Do Something Focused more on teen activism and engagement with causes, their site offers Virtual Volunteer opportunities so you can take action without leaving your couch! Many of these encourage folks to work with kids and teens ( ) and share their life experiences! Go Abroad Want to volunteer on vacation? right where you work.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Pando Projects is a nonprofit that empowers people—in particular Millennials—to step up as leaders and develop new, local solutions to the problems in their communities. Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. We've created a digital media lab.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

One small organization, for example, is using text messages to communicate with teens who participate in a mentoring program. A staff member observed that, though all the teens carried cell phones and used them frequently, few would answer phone calls or emails. Can your organization replicate these kinds of results?

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DipJar

AUGUST 24, 2022

These include the library’s Teen Squad, currently focused on coding and understanding and working with data; an active small business network; learning circles, essentially programs that are co-created and co-led by the community; adult education focused on workforce development; citizenship services and support; and English language learning.

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The Verge

AUGUST 3, 2021

Like many strangers who had connected over Facebook, Sanjana had decided to buy a few joints of ganja (a local word for weed). 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. This leads to a shortage of fresh, local weed. It’s cheap. It’s cheap.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

Yahya Bouhlel started coding in his early teens. Bouhlel says the company has local teachers in every country — over 500 in number — and they teach students in over 12 languages. We have a blended education model, we teach in twelve local languages, and we’re positioning ourselves as a regional leader.”.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 3, 2013

The process of choosing a domain name is not unlike that moment in your teens or early 20s when you decided to get a tattoo. Jon Chang, part of the marketing team at startup Pricing Engine in New York City, recently bought a domain for an outside venture he’s launching called Local Envision Labs. What best defines you?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You get everything from flight tickets to local phone numbers, to education loan in one place,” he said. “We Students going to the top colleges is just 10% of the potential audience,” explained Chaturvedi, who spent his teen years attending talks from startup founders and also made money by bringing more people to those talks.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids' science education. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Brown Venture Group co-founder and managing partner Dr. Paul Campbell said that in the early days of forming the firm, he and co-founder Dr. Chris Brooks were told by “multiple people locally” that they should leave the Twin Cities metro area because “all the capital was on the coasts.”. “We

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

adults feel climate change has had a major impact on their lives so far, about 4 in 10 think it will in their lifetimesincluding on their health, local air quality, and water availability. The poll also found that, while only about one-quarter of U.S. About half of adults under age 30 believe climate change will impact them personally.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

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. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 14, 2009

If you use the advanced search option on VolunteerMatch.com , you can find volunteer opportunities that are good for kids and/or teens. Write letters to your government officials (federal, state and local) together. Talk about local, national and international current events. Here are a few ideas: 1. Volunteer with them.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Another quiet little secret is making sure you engage local Girl and Boy Scouts groups who are always looking for ways to engage in socially minded ways. Crazy amounts of wasted food also resulted in donations to Second Harvest and as well as work with local charities to organize soup kitchens. Partner with a Local Florist.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

Wholesum, which currently has five Korean local brands, aims to acquire an additional 15-20 brands across lifestyle, health, children and pet categories this year. “Organic growth for our portfolio of brands is high teens since the acquisition, but it’s early days, so we think we can hit 30-40% year on year once we hit our stride.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

In an interview with NPR , Friar said it “was really our fault” these posts were removed, and blamed the actions taken by the company’s unpaid moderators (known as “leads”) on a moderation policy that prohibited discussion of national issues in the app’s local groups. Black Lives Matter is a local topic.”. “We

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Johns — my North Portland, Oregon, neighborhood — I've been working this year on a new, all-volunteer mentoring program for local teen parents. - You might also want to try my How to Find Your Have Fun, Do Good exercise to help you create a list of ways you can have fun and do good. With a group of mom-friends in St.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Instead, she went out into local neighborhoods with low-income families and lousy schools and asked parents how they felt about their kids'' science education. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities. YES students defy expectations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 26, 2011

Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? It demands a perspective that is self-reflective, microscopic, local, and grand. Can we break that down one more time? Because I'm lost.".

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2021

As the oldest of 12 children, Bunim Laskin spent much of his teen years looking for ways to help keep his siblings entertained. At the age of 20, he founded Swimply , a marketplace for homeowners to rent out their underutilized pools to local swimmers, with Asher Weinberger. The arrangement sparked a business idea in Laskin’s mind.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. Now, as a middle-aged woman working in the nonprofit sector, I clearly see millions of people working peacefully and tirelessly at local, national, and international levels to make the world a better place for everyone.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

When evaluating your community, some of the most influential items to consider regarding social networks include: Age: Facebook users can skew older than MySpace; many organizations in the UK have had great success joining the ecosystem on Bebo to extend the opportunity for teens to reach out for social services in a private way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Twestival Local Weekend : Last February, Twestival raised over $250,000 for charity:water on Twitter on February 13th with more 200 cities sponsoring local tweet, meet, and give parties. Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. Take it all with grain of salt.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 20, 2021

Common news values are things like: Surprise : Ex: Woman finds wedding dress at a clothing bank; Novelty : Ex: Nonprofit staffer invents device that collects trash in streams; Triumph: Ex: Man overcomes addiction, goes on to manage treatment centers; Human interest : Ex: Teen learns adopted dog was used in dogfighting, so she uses her coding skills (..)

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