{"id":833,"date":"2008-05-19T09:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2008-05-19T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:18:00","slug":"guest-blogger-reaching-the-next-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/05\/19\/guest-blogger-reaching-the-next-generation\/","title":{"rendered":"GUEST BLOGGER: Reaching the Next Generation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SDF_NK-6oFI\/AAAAAAAABa4\/XgeINLU_KKs\/s1600-h\/court_headshot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/bp1.blogger.com\/_AjTpvPO_ddU\/SDF_NK-6oFI\/AAAAAAAABa4\/XgeINLU_KKs\/s200\/court_headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-style: italic\">Welcome back from the weekend!  I&#8217;m psyched to start the week off with this next guest post from regular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courtneyemartin.com\">Courtney Martin.<\/a>  Here she is, with some quintessential Martin-style wisdom for individuals and orgs wishing to reach younger people through their writing and their work.  -GWP<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><br \/>Reaching the Next Generation<\/span><\/p>\n<p>One of the most interesting things, in my humble opinion, about the next generation is the way that it approaches altruism. Long gone are the days when writing a check or signing a petition were action enough for the socially conscious individual. And also long gone are the strict bifurcation between nonprofit and corporate, do gooder and go getter, giver and saver.<\/p>\n<p>Through a variety of technological innovations like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/apps\/application.php?id=2318966938\">Facebook Causes<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1yq0tMYPDJQ\">You Tube appeals<\/a>, young people have changed the landscape on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153doing good.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not just a technological shift, but a whole new paradigm that has been born thanks to the kids of the 80s and 90s.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations like <a href=\"http:\/\/drinkingliberally.org\/\">Drinking Liberally<\/a> have spawned a whole new, very fun way of approaching public awareness and political community. And one of my favorite new sites is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alldaybuffet.org\/\">All Day Buffet,<\/a> which calls itself \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a social action brand for the cool kids.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d It seems that everyone is striving to put the fun back in fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>Including myself. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prospect.org\/cs\/articles?article=oprahs_stale_definition_of_charity\">the piece I wrote for The American Prospect<\/a> about my own little contribution called the Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy.<\/p>\n<p>And keep this in mind if you are trying to inspire young people to get involved in a cause. We like to feel engaged, but not drained. We like to kill many birds with one stone.<\/p>\n<p>We like to get a little tipsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome back from the weekend! I&#8217;m psyched to start the week off with this next guest post from regular Courtney Martin. Here she is, with some quintessential Martin-style wisdom for individuals and orgs wishing to reach younger people through their writing and their work. -GWPReaching the Next Generation One of the most interesting things, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10745,100],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-political-campaigns","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}