Will my daughter hate me for writing this? Will she be pleased? You never know with teenagers. However, I am hoping that she will be pleased. I’m pretty pleased with what she has written.

Mairead is working as a summer intern at Save the Children in their technology area. She has been ‘all marketing-coerced, and everything’ to put up a note on Facebook

to give all the stuck-up Seventy-Year-Old Muckity Mucks an idea of what they can do, as far as advertisements or recruiting or whatever, to get more people in the 18-25 type age bracket involved. Because, you know, we all have little siblings and stuff, we care about the child mortality rate too-- not just the thirty-year-old church-going mommies.

So if you are plugged into social media, stuff like Facebook, MySpace, text messaging on cellphones and all those things, and especially if you’re part of the 18-25 demographic, please stop by and take this survey. Tell all your friends. If we can get a lot of people to respond, Mairead says she’ll do a really awesome Happy Dance. It'll be better than the hamsters. Really”. If I’m lucky, I’ll get a video of it to put on YouTube.

And if you’ve got other ideas of how non-profits can reach out to the 18 to 25 demographic, add it as a comment, or send me an email. I’ll make sure Mairead gets it.