Hey all. I am hoping I can get some guidance from those with more experience. Long story short, we basically need an inexpensive way to build our audience. Our content is niche, but there are def people who would appreciate it. Connecting to this niche audience is the challenge though.
We are a small nonprofit comprised of a few professionals that create instructional content. We do not charge for this content. We have actually sold similar content in various open markets, but now we are moving the content to our own site and making it free. I suppose this would be the equivalent of moving goods from Amazon to an independent website. Yet it has proven harder to give it away free than it has been to sell it. Building awareness is difficult because we do not have marketing experience, so we are having trouble connecting the content to the right audience. We do not have anyone who is good at advertising or nonprofit management on the team. Yes, I know that would be ideal, but that takes time and networking opportunities we don't currently have, so we have to make do with what we have.
We have a tiny advertising budget and we are terrible with it. We have tried Facebook ads, for example, to no avail. We just don't have the talent. We did briefly consider pooling money to hire an ad agency, but they are expensive, many don't promise concrete goals, and we aren't spending to earn, so there would be no ROI.
A lot of the marketing problems we see nonprofits deal with are usually 'fundraising-based'. That is understandable, as it is difficult to get people to donate money. But we are quite literally giving stuff away. We just need people to know about it. Does anyone have any recommendations on how to raise awareness/engagement/traffic cheap?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/20/health/acip-cdc-covid-19-vaccine-phase-1b-allocation-bn/index.html
If the goal is overall lower covid deaths and lower covid hospitalizations, wouldn’t it make sense to prioritize those older in age and those with more preexisting medical conditions over frontline workers who may be much lower in risk of dying from the virus or needing ICU care from the virus?
If the rational is that vaccinating frontline essential workers before adults aged 65-74 and those aged 16-64 with high risk medical conditions will result in overall lower covid deaths and hospitalizations, can someone provide me the statistics? I wasn’t able to find a paper or article demonstrating the statistics used to reach the conclusion that those prioritized in phase 1b over 1c should result in overall lower deaths and hospitalizations.
Or do I have this all wrong? Is the outcome variable not reduced deaths and hospitalizations, but instead simply reduced overall cases?
I’m in my senior year of highschool and besides a very basic “honors” economics class which basically only taught us what about depressions and recessions, there’s been a brutal lack in explaining how to establish and build credit, invest/trade in stocks, 401k/retirement planning, and almost anything else that falls under saving. It’s not even a me thing either, almost everyone in my grade that I’ve talked to or known has an equally less of a clue despite literally being adults soon.
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Why are children so joyful and carefree, while adults are often such miserable sacks of anxiety, depression, or some other form of psychosis? I believe that decades of learned repression are responsible. It all starts in the classroom with "Sit down Johnny, stop throwing that pencil at Suzy!" But after being told over and over that acting on your desires is unacceptable, you need to shut up and do your work, you learn to repress those desires. "Yes, yes, I do really want to do this work. I want to get this A." In a sense, you learn to create in your mind a little teacher that is yelling at you to stop being an immature brat and instead be "responsible." "Growing up" is the process of fully identifying with that little teacher you've created, so that you do the "responsible" thing without the need for an actual teacher threatening to send you to the Principle's office.
Your conception of what it means to be an adult is not purely determined by teachers and parents either - this is bigger than that. It's also your culture (or subculture): how as a man/woman you are "supposed" to behave, or what is cool/uncool, for example. I believe that kind of pressure is equally (or more) powerful, and it also serves to repress your natural childlike state. We could say that in addition to the little teacher you created in your mind, you create an equivalent figure for the group of peers you're trying to fit into, and it yells at you whenever you do something uncool.
Ground between these two rocks, authority and peer pressure, I believe that little is left of your inner child by age 20 or so. Its kind of still there, but it's been badly abused, shoved into the basement and chained to the wall. Many people have forgotten its even there. They're too busy trying to act out some script that was given to them, that really has nothing to do with who they truly are. Who doesn't want to be accepted? If anything, that's the only part of the inner child still left intact: this desperate desire to fit in. No one represses that desire, because it is so essential for being a zombie.
Yes, you have to learn how to be responsible and how to interact with your peers. You have to learn how to function in the adult world. But is functioning living? I'd argue that you can only truly live by being in touch with your authentic desires, by stubbornly insisting on your right to be a child - that is, to be a natural development of the person you were when you were a child. This is probably
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> "If you are made to feel useful and important to others, especially in this case by a non-kin and education-based mentor, then you are more likely to have a reduction in delinquency and dangerous behavior," said Margaret Kelley, associate professor of American Studies.
> In the quantitative study, the researchers examined the role of natural mentors - informal mentors outside of one's relatives - in light of delinquency and dangerousness outcomes of adolescents using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health data, known as Add Health, which includes three waves of data collected via interviews in 1994, 1996, and 2000.
> Factors such as the type of mentor and characteristics of the mentoring relationship complicate the past findings, Kelley said.
> The new study revealed that of the natural mentors respondents identified, teachers or coaches at their school had significant impact on increasing mattering and reducing dangerous behavior.
> "Adolescents identified mentors who made an important difference in their life, and those who had non-kin adult mentors also said they mattered to other adults more," Kelley said.
> Males found guidance and advice from their mentors while women tended to receive emotional nurturing.
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The irony, right?
And I swear I didn't become a teacher just to show 'em --them being the teachers who called me lazy throughout grade school, while me, being undiagnosed at the time, believed them.
Now I'm actually in the field (and on medication!) and I've found it's not hard to stumble upon a pair of colleagues "bracing" themselves for the next class with a notoriously collective attention-deficit, or having a conversation about "all these children on stimulants" being "overly medicated these days."
Yes, I do believe drugs shouldn't be shoveled down the throat of any eccentric child who doesn't fit into the standard Common Core shoe box we've provided for them-- but what about the students who just want to prove they can do something right? That don't want detention for being late.. again. The kid that really didn't want to forget his homework assignment, because turning in your assignment means you get a sticker and he sure as hell loves stickers [Side bar: I decided this hypothetical child has a sticker collection, currently spread out on a floor somewhere, which is also where the missing homework still is.] The teen that is impeccable with her eye-contact and head nods, but still hates that-- "fuck my best friend is in the middle of telling me a really intense story and I just didn't process the whole last half of it why wasn't I listening I need to stop doing that rude what is wrong with me OMG I'm still doing it!!" --moment.
Many people I work/have worked with have a strong stance of what they believe ADD is, think it's exaggerated, or don't believe in it at all. I've never brought it up or asked for any accommodations out of fear of being judged. Anyone having similar experiences?
TL;DR In the workplace my Adderall prescription feels like a dirty secret.
EDIT: I'm off! Thanks for the fun guys :) Feel free to check out the Center's website for more resources as well as a place you can leave further questions if you have them - we release 1-2 Q&A articles every week based on what we get submitted! This has been fun :D
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After working for 9 years as a youth-focused sex educator, I decided to move towards adult sex ed. I now travel around giving sex workshops, collaborating with medical institutions, and doing work for the organization I founded, The Center For Sexual Pleasure And Health. Not everyone wanted my "sex center" to exist, but I fought hard & we are now open for visitors as a safe space to access factual, fun, information!
Here's a picture of our vibe shelf! And our Vulva Door - the biggest doorframe of its kind in New England! (Both pictures are NSFW...unless you work here :D)
I also founded What They Are Asking, a site where you can upvote your favorite sex questions & have a top sexuality expert answer the top question every week, and recently published my first book, Hot And Fast: Sexy, Spontaneous Quickies for Passionate Orgasms.
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