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Enews_thumb_levine Ali Levine, NTEN Fellow

I couldn’t be more excited about the increasingly participatory nature of the Internet and its benefits for nonprofits. It’s not just that these Web 2.0 technologies offer new and powerful tools for nonprofits to engage people in the all important activity of two way conversations (as if that wasn’t exciting enough) – it’s who can be reached this way.

Almost all nonprofits struggle to engage young people with their missions. Each generation seems to decry the lackluster civic participation of the next and worries that the ties that bind us together as a community are getting weaker. Nonprofits play a big role in building those ties. Using the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies to involve young people is a natural fit."