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Making Our Own Transition Plans

by Allison Fine on 7 Nov 2008

On Wednesday, Jonathan Wolfe wrote a terrific piece on this blog called Remembering the "We" in Yes We Can about the continued engagement of the Millennials who were so instrumental in Obama's victory continuing to be engaged in helping to develop the priorites and policies of the new administration.

Lisa Stone, the co-founder of Blogher, makes a slightly different call to action,  She encourages everyone to come up with our own transition plan. We need to ask ourselves, she writes, "What will YOU do to help resolve the nation's problems?"

Good question!  And a particularly poignant one for us to ask in a bleak economy because the jobs in the social sector that may have been available a year or two ago may not be there this year and next. So, what's a social citizen to do? Read more »

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The Art(s) of Social Media: A Chat with Jane Chu

by Julia Rocchi on 22 Oct 2008

 

Storytelling, movement, and music have been part of the human experience since we first walked upright. And though we still perform in theaters and on stages, our artistic pursuits are constantly redefined and reinvented through social media. At this nexus of art and tech sits Jane Chu, president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City -- but she needs your social citizen-brand of genius to make the project really sing for Millennials in her community. Read on to find out how Jane wants to make the Center a community focal point, and leave your advice/suggestions/answers in the comments for her. Thanks in advance! Read more »

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Reverse Mentoring and Other Thoughts on Millennials and Organizations

by Allison Fine on 16 Oct 2008 3

I spoke on Sunday at an event called the Leadership Summit: Creativity and Innovation 2008 sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, DC.  It was nicely attended, with about one hundred people who were largely senior staff at Jewish nonprofit agencies and synagogues in and around DC and a smattering of Millennials. During our conversation there were several interesting ideas and observations that I think are worth sharing and chewing on:

1.  We discussed the opportunity for younger staff people to mentor older ones on the use of social media. I call this Reverse Mentoring, and it really resonated with both the younger and older people in the audience. Of couse, Millennials ae going to have to slow it down for those Boomers to catch up! What about a monthly brown bag lunch for Millennials to demonstrate how Twitter and IM work and sign their co-workers up for those services? Read more »

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College Info by Millennials for Millennials

by Allison Fine on 14 Oct 2008 1

I spoke with Jordan Goldman, the twenty-fix year old founder of Unigo.com and a recent grad of Wesleyn University, last Tuesday about their new site and how it can be used as a cross-campus platform for information and concerns -- particularly in these scary economic times. They were recently written up on the New York Times Magazine -- a pretty impressive feat for a web site four days after it was launched!

Unigo does for college info what blogs are doing for news: providing real-time news for millions of people that used to be the captive domain of old-line publishing companies. Jordan wanted to create a resource that reflected campus-life in real time from the perspective of students -- as opposed to the array of hard-copy guides that are generated from the college's (usually their communication office's) perspective like Princeton Review that take years to put together. Read more »

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Michigan Millennial Joins Congress

by Kari Dunn Saratovsky on 1 Oct 2008
Sharon Carney in LansingEarlier this week, Allison posted a piece on Millennials running for elected office. While Sharon Carney may not be doing quite that, she is shaking things up in Michigan and engaging young people through the Millennial Mayors Congress. [Got you with the title, though, didn't we? ;) ] I had such a great conversation with her last week, I felt selfish not letting her share her story more broadly. So here goes ...
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Millennials as Elected Officials

by Allison Fine on 29 Sep 2008

The V3 campaign has added a new twist -- a blog to encourage Millennials to run for public office. The first blog post of this new effort on the V3 blog describes what they're calling '501V3' in this way:

Members of this “We Generation” are now starting to run for and hold elective office—while still in school. Just as we have questions for other politicians, our big question of the students is: how will their background in service inform their positions and decision-making?

I had an email exchange with Robert Egger, the founder of V3, about this new effort on Friday.  In his uniquely enthusiastic style, Robert wrote:

"Can you imagine -- what would it be like if this GIANT cohort said -- we do not want our service to be channeled exclusively through charities anymore -- we want a new avenue to get our skills into the mix, and it's politics!!!!"

It is definitely worth watching and supporting this new effort as it launches.

 

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Young Innovators Award: October 15 Deadline

by Allison Fine on 16 Sep 2008

Here is the announcement from the MacArthur Foundation and HASTAC for their Young Innovators Awards:

DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING COMPETITION 2008

Looking for Young Innovators

Check us out on ShapingYouth.org!

$2 Million Competition

Focus: Participatory Learning

**Using new digital, mobile, or other virtual technologies to share ideas and plan, design, implement, or just discuss goals together.**

Application Deadline: October 15, 2008

Young Innovator Awards are targeted at 18-25 year olds, with awards ranging from $5,000-$30,000.

Full information at: www.dmlcompetition.net

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A Millennial Moment at Columbia U

by Julia Rocchi on 12 Sep 2008 7

As I noted yesterday, I'm not the only Social Citizens blogger to make an appearance at this Summit. Allison was here too, covering the forum for her other web properties. Here's an article she wrote for The Huffington Post about Millennials, service, social media, and more. Good stuff  -- check it out. You might even see a tiny shout-out to yours truly. ;)

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Student Loans: We All Seek Forgiveness

by Jonathan Wolfe on 22 Aug 2008 5

The Chronicle of Philanthropy recently posted information about the Department of Education’s request for feedback on proposed regulations regarding implementation of the College Cost Reduction and Access Act of 2007.

Come again?

Basically, this new law forgives the remaining debt of student loan recipients who have worked as full-time “public service employees” for a period of 10 consecutive years while making their payments. In other words, you graduate, land a solid gig at a nonprofit, government agency, or other still-to-be-defined “public service” employer, and you won’t have to pay any more monthly debt owed after 10 years working there or remaining in the sector. Read more »

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From the Chronicle: "It's Time to Focus on a New Generation"

by Julia Rocchi on 20 Aug 2008 1

Many thanks to the Chronicle of Philanthropy for running an op-ed from our own Allison Fine on — what else? — Millennials! In this piece, Allison covers how Millennials can help nonprofits embrace social media for social change, and how the nonprofits need to understand this generation’s diverse roles as employees, volunteers, and activists.

Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:

Almost invariably, the first question posed by many nonprofit leaders is: “What is the best tool to reach young people?”

There is no one silver-bullet blog or Web site. Organizations must stop looking for the “killer app” to connect with millennials and start examining their own organizational culture. They must ask themselves:

  • Why do you want to connect with them?

  • What conversation do you want to have with them?

  • How open are you to listening to them?

  • What will you allow them to do that you don’t feel you have to control?

Find Allison’s recommendations (and the whole piece) here. Any questions/answers you think she missed? Share them with us!

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