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Creative Event Ideas To Get Students Involved In Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

Students are bursting with potential. Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. Creating student-friendly events taps into this potential. Students bring unmatched creativity, enthusiasm, and perspective to nonprofits.

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Instagram has a new program for school officials to report bullying

Engadget

This time, however, Meta is enlisting school officials directly in an effort to speed up its response to safety issues affecting young teens. The company is introducing a new Schools Partnership Program that aims to give teachers and school administrators a way to intervene when students experience bullying on Instagram.

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Teen banking service Step raises $50M, adds TikTok star Charli D’Amelio to investor list

TechCrunch

Step , a mobile banking service aimed at teens , announced this morning it has raised $50 million in Series B funding after growing to over 500,000 users only two months after its official launch. Step offers teens $3 (it used to be just $1) for every friend that signs up under their referral.

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Teens and Twitter: A Mini Focus Group with Teens

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I had an opportunity to ask about 100 teens attending the Asian Liver Center's Youth Leadership Conference on Asian and Pacific Islander Health this question directly. They prefer Facebook because it is easier to make friends. The college students in the room, however, disagreed. International Youth Conference.

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Leverage Edu raises $6.5 million to help Indian students land in top colleges abroad

TechCrunch

Each year, millions of students in India rush to get an admission in universities abroad. Scores of legacy and newfound firms are attempting to offer counselling to these students. Crimson Education, a platform to help students get into top universities, nabs $5M at a $245M valuation. “It’s one digital dashboard.

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This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of Instagram

The Verge

The Wall Street Journal reported that the files showed Instagram knew the social media network has a negative affect on teens’ mental health. Facebook has pushed back on the WSJ’s characterizations of its research, saying that “it is simply not accurate that this research demonstrates Instagram is ‘toxic’ for teen girls.”.

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Inside Facebook’s struggle to keep young people

The Verge

They predicted that, if “increasingly fewer teens are choosing Facebook as they grow older,” the company would face a more “severe” decline in young users than it already projected. And while Instagram remains incredibly popular with teens, Facebook’s own data shows that they are starting to engage with the app less. Declining numbers.

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