Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2014

Here’s Where Teens are Going Instead of Facebook from Forbes. Like last time, I mentioned that I’d share some blog posts and data for those that want to dive in deeper to this conversation. Instagram, Vine, and the Evolution of Social Media from Pew Research. 2013 Mobile Growth Stats (infographic) from digitalbuzz.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2011

That said, the community on Daily Booth has a lot of active teens. If your nonprofit works with teens and young people, this is a mobile photo-sharing community that you should definitely explore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 27, 2013

Pheed: The Next Social Network for Teens? Related Links: Free Webinar on April 18: 11 Steps to Launching a Successful Social Media Strategy for Your Nonprofit. Sulia: The Hottest Social Network you’ve Never Heard Of.

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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. GivingTuesday is ramping up for its 2014 campaign and it looks like children and teens will be a part of the movement. One example is Emily Barr from Maryland is a clever 5th grader who wants to help her best friend who has Cystic Fibrosis.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 4, 2009

FreshBrain is focused on an important problem - filling the gap in the education that our teens receive, specifically in the area of 21st Century Skills. Their website, freshBrain.org , provides a social networking based platform where teens can innovate, create and share using a variety of technologies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. Humane Society of the United States :: @ HumaneSociety. Junior Achievement :: @ JA_USA. Maplight :: @ MapLight. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Coalition for the Homelessness :: @ NTL_Homeless.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. The mother from Missouri that pretended to be a teen boy and cyberbullied a young girl to the point where she committed suicide.Tragic yes, but MySpace’s fault? If your organization is trying to reach teens, absolutely!

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2014

iUrban Teen. iUrban Teen is working with students to spark and fuel the fires of innovation within tomorrow's tech leaders. Without teens staying inspired and graduating, the future does not look so bright; we’d miss out on the great ideas and collaborations they would bring to the world. Sam Rodriguez. Technology Director.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Deena Pierott , founder of the White House honored youth program called iUrban Teen Tech , will offer a keynote called Moving from Diversity to Inclusion: Changing landscapes of nonprofit technology. Change Management Deena Pierott iUrban Teen lcs Leadership leading change summit'

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

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

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Watch what this group of teens did for their community. For example: We’re furious at Politician X for engaging in this behavior. Join us in telling him this is unacceptable! Want to feel pride and joy in humanity? You’ll be outraged when you see how people are treating this endangered species. We have to stop this!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2014

Eighty-three percent of millennials ages 18–29 use social networking sites on a regular basis as do 73 percent of teens. The millennial generation consists of 76 million Americans who are tech savvy, well-informed, and results-driven. Millennials greatly prefer smartphones over any other device and send an average of 20 text messages per day.

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See3

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Sometimes, our best work and that of our clients is born from crisis. We’re not talking the “I need this thing and I need it yesterday” kind of crisis. What we’re talking about is a real, human crisis where the health of people and the public is on the line. The sexual health of New […].

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Although kids all carry cell phones and use them constantly, they use them in a different way than adults tend to use them. For 15 years, the small staff of the HOWA Family Center has worked to enrich lives through mentoring for children, families and communities. read more

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 16, 2011

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. I loved my job and felt so fed by the work I did and the teens I encountered — which made my next step feel more like a step backward rather than a step forward. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St.

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Hands on Fundraising

MARCH 22, 2022

Whether you’re dedicated to providing mental health care to teens in marginalized communities or working to raise awareness about environmental issues, it’s people who care that help you […]. The post Designing Your Nonprofit Website To Look the Part: 5 Tips appeared first on Hands-On Fundraising.

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frontstream

JULY 28, 2023

According to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network , more than 15,000 kids and teens will face a cancer diagnosis this year, and more than 1,500 will lose their lives to the disease.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Kindful

MAY 1, 2021

Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Learn more about Porter’s Call. Robbie’s Hope. They’ve made it their mission to stop the suicide epidemic that’s taking the lives of their friends. Impacting: Mental health.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

She said her primary motivation when starting out with Bookshare was to help provide timely books for young adult and teen readers. By the time she was hired as a proofreader and scanner in December 2008, Mayrie had played a key role in contributing more than 1,000 accessible books to the collection.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

High Schools projects, teens wanting to be active, bake sales, and birthday wishes are only a few ways you can leverage Friends Asking Friends. As part of your campaign you could launch a site that allows all the supporters of your campaign to reach into their networks to generate increased buzz, engagement, and support. Special Projects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. ." - Rachel Cohen Twenty-year-old Rachel Cohen is the Founder and Executive Director of Hand2Paw.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

With the addition of the book "Bright Wampum" to the collection today (September 7th), Bookshare is one of the few (if not the only) libraries in the world to have copies of all of Dorothy Lyons' novels for teens. These novels were mostly published in only one edition during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and are highly collectible.

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DipJar

JULY 26, 2022

Utah Pride is an events-based organization that supports the community through mental health services; programming for youth and families, teens, adults, and seniors; suicide prevention efforts; education and training; and a community space where people can gather and connect. The Pride Center offers a home.

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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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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Say THANK YOU in big letters, followed by a sincere note of appreciation that says something like: “Thanks to you, more teens will be able to attend school and plan their careers. More teens will have the support of loving mentors and other teens who share their goals.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2023

Our nonprofit focuses on the mental health of teens and young adults and we would like to fund expeditions in some of the national parks in our state. Any advice on where to look for grants that fit our mission or other funding sources? One of the ways you’d like to do this is through expeditions in national parks in your state. Sounds great!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Unlike many teens, tweens, and Milllennials, I did not enjoy using Tumblr. Nonprofit Tech for Good needs to reach nonprofit professionals and with the Tumblr userbase being predominately tweens and teens, it’s not a good fit. 4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should. Pew Social Media Research.

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Care2

MARCH 19, 2012

In one example that’s elegant in its simplicity, a staff member at a small organization observed that, while all the teens in a mentoring program carried cell phones and used them frequently, few would answer phone calls or emails.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. More than 75% say they will regularly give to charity, versus 63% in 1989, according to a nationwide survey by the Girl Scout Research Institute of 3,263 students in grades three through 12."

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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. By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Opening doors.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Example: “Write a fundraising email for Power Poetry, a safe, creative, free online platform for teens to create poetry. Add the context: “This email is for the Thanksgiving email and going to past donors” Hit submit and pray to the AI gods for good results. This year Power Poetry has supported over 1.1 million poets.

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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.

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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!

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