The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Teenage users of the Facebook app in the US had declined by 13 percent since 2019 and were projected to drop 45 percent over the next two years, driving an overall decline in daily users in the company’s most lucrative ad market. All social media companies want teens to use their services. The “aging up issue is real”.

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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. ” These are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. .” Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013! 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. ” Philantroteens.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Annual campaign, Capital campaign and Special projects). Special Projects. High Schools projects, teens wanting to be active, bake sales, and birthday wishes are only a few ways you can leverage Friends Asking Friends. Here’s a little insight on each to get your mental wheels turning.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Best sci-fi book deal Opens in a new window Credit: Ballantine Books 'Project Hail Mary' by Andy Weir $13.98 Anyone who enjoyed Andy Weir's hit sci-fi book The Martian is bound to love Project Hail Mary. The missing teen is Barbara Van Leer — the daughter of the family that owners the camp. at Amazon $20 Save $6.02

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2021

BuzzFeed News obtained a message from an internal messaging board where Instagram vice president of product Vishal Shah said a “youth pillar” project has been identified as a priority by the company. Mosseri would oversee the project along with vice president Pavni Diwanji, who oversaw YouTube Kids while she was at Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. See Hope Grow raised nearly $460,000 for TreeHouse teens.

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sgEngage

JULY 16, 2024

Every week is connected through a common theme to make the entire project feel cohesive to our donors. For example, the internal theme of our summer appeal was “How ASM Prepares Teens for Life After High School.” And it never hurts to repeat the impact of your mission.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

She enjoys camping, reading, adventure travel, and clean socks… and I should mention is starting a nonprofit called Pando Projects. 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.

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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! The Extraodinaries Got a minute? iParticipate Follow the stars.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 1, 2024

You use the same subject line on every one, like: “Insider Newsletter,” “Top of the news from the Teen Action Program,” or “Sound bite from the Teen Action Program.” She said, “A teen girl came to the library for talk time. I wanted to tell you this story so you can see what your support means to the teens in our community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2014

Now we''re thrilled to share the names of our three judges and our first nine confirmed coaches for the Idea Accelerator: Judges : Deena Pierott , Founder and Chief Innovator, iUrban Teen James Rooney , Senior Manager, Microsoft''s Technology for Good Program Sonya Watson , Advisor, Tides Foundation Coaches : Britt Bravo , Big Vision Consultant, Big (..)

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups. Many YES teens don't come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Be it a prestige drama or direct-to-streaming schlock, these things are difficult to make, and even the worst movie was someone’s passion project. Three prime examples are the Rat Pack, the Brat Pack, and the Frat Pack.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.

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See3

JUNE 6, 2011

Change the world, one video at a time.Google Chrome: It Gets Better | 1:31 It Get’s Better Project In response to the high numbers of suicides by gay teens, writer Dan Savage started the It Gets Better Project to show young LGBT people the levels of happiness, potential, and positivity their lives [.].

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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.

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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. Weve teamed up on several projects, and theyve delivered on every single one. But instead of looking like Freddie Prinze Jr., The team over at Superconnector has been great partners, says Manning.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

At the time, it had projected revenue of $126 million for the year, according to the deck analyzed by our own Alex Wilhelm. based fintechs already offering debit cards to children and/or teens, including Greenlight , Step and Current. Acorns is coming into this deal after it faced a setback on an earlier exit plan of its own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2012

Note from Beth: By the time you read this post, I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? Photo by WhiteAfrican.

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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 ). Meta is concerned about young people not using its products.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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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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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

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. Although it started initially as a high school project, MathAndCoding is now a full-fledged program and a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2023

More layoffs at Coinbase : Coinbase said it is going to cut another chunk of jobs, this time 20%, or 950 employees, and will abandon several projects, Manish reports. Teen screen time : Instagram and Facebook are looking at its advertising to young users and will introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads, Taylor reports.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

In honor of LGBT Pride Month , I wanted to highlight some inspiring LGBT technology projects you should follow and champion. While diverse in their missions, these projects all have the common threads of inclusivity, support, and access. LGBT Technology Partnership's Digital Inclusion Project. Trans*H4ck. Happy Pride Month!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 12, 2020

On the heels of this growth, The Juggernaut announced today that it has raised a $2 million seed round led by Precursor Ventures to hire editors and a full-time growth engineer, and expand new editorial projects. Other investors in the round include Unpopular Ventures, Backstage Capital, New Media Ventures and Old Town Media.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. During the school year, they spend one day per week at the Taylor Center working on science projects and leading science programs for young children, seniors, and other community groups. Many YES teens don''t come in with confidence about their own abilities.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. Find the Future was the overarching theme of the projects.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

According to the Pew Research Center''s Internet Project , 59% of internet users do not believe it is possible to be completely anonymous online. Anonymity is a potentially dangerous road, and can remove the person from behind the message.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“Parents across America are deeply disturbed by ongoing reports that Facebook knows that Instagram can cause destructive and lasting harms to many teens and children, especially to their mental health and wellbeing,” Blumenthal wrote. Blumenthal has called for new online child safety measures to address concerns around the app.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

Since finding cool things to do with your teens can be a challenge (at least for me), consider guerilla art love as your next Savor and Serve project! What was truly cool was how long some of the messages lasted - in some cases, weeks!

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2023

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. A prior co-founder, also from GIPHY, had worked on that project but left the startup around six months ago. There are now nine employees, including two contractors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project. You have been elevated by the opportunity to contribute to the project. Instead, they are participating in larger projects, joining the team, doing their part.

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