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Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, I attended the "Twenty-Something Meet Up" at the BlogHer Conference. Why did I go? I keep hearing from nonprofits that one of the reasons they want to incorporate a social networking or media strategy is to reach a younger audience. So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable.
Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. There were probably about 40 or 50 women in the room - not all were twenty somethings.
I wanted to listen to what was on their minds in general, although I was particularly keen on hearing any discussions or snippets about social change, nonprofits, and activism. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?"
I thought to myself, now that's a list I'd like to see.
There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. If you work in nonprofits and track relevant research, you no doubt have come across the Social Citizen Blog from the Case Foundation and the paper, Social Citizen, from Allison Fine. Both are essential reading. And, on the sidebar, there are some links to young people's blogs. but I couldn't find an extensive list of twenty-something bloggers who focus on nonprofits, social change, and social action.
So, I decided to reach out and see if I could start to compile a list. What follows below is no doubt incomplete and I sure I've gotten ages wrong too -- so please make additions and corrections in the comments. Here's a few good blogs written by GenYs that cover nonprofit technology, philanthropy, social change, and more.
Blogs by Gen Y
Nonprofit Technology
Amy Sample Ward. I discovered Amy's NpTech blog about a year ago, maybe longer. She covers nonprofit technology, social actions, and social change. She is a real community person and is often promoting other people's projects.
Johanna Bates, a gen y and nonprofit techie, who works with a health care advocacy nonprofit, has recently take up blogging. Her writing is reflective and brilliant. She offers a perspective of what is like to be a GenY working for a nonprofit. Thoroughly enjoyed her post about 140 character filters.
Pulse and Signal covers the intersection between healthcare and social media and is written by Andre Blackman who is totally awesome. He is a terrific blogger, knows his beat, and very generous too. When I put on my Facebook status that I was looking for blogs, he wrote on my wall recommending many of the blogs that follow.
Girls With Macs is written by Michaela Hackner one of the smartest nonprofit technologists and marketers around. If I was working for a nonprofit that was doing a job search for a technologically savvy marketing person, I wouldn't even both posting a job description - I just hire her.
Philanthropy
GenYGive is written by Miriam Kagan and talks about motivations and trends related to philanthropy and Gen Y. I discovered Miriam a month ago and have been fan. One of her recent posts, "Research Points Out That Gen Y's Give" is very informative.
New Voices of Philanthropy is written by Trista Harris and it covers issues of generational change in the philanthropic sector and more broadly trends in philanthropy.
Epic Change Blog is written by Stacey Monk. Epic change raises money to provide micro-loans in developing countries.
Nonprofits - Management Issues
From the Pipeline Rosetta Thurman is an emerging nonprofit leader of color sharing career advice, nonprofit management and other wisdom on her blog. I've been following her work for about two years now and excited to learn that we're going to speaking at the same conference come November - so we'll meet in person too! She is one of several bloggers part of the Brazen Careerist Nonprofit Network.
Subject To Change is written by a recent Yale alum, Vanessa Mason,
