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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

It starts with destigmatizing the conversation, overcoming the perception that needing help makes you weak, and then actively seeking the support you need. It’s easy to see why: One in seven American teens is estimated to have a mental health condition, and 76% of students say wellbeing is a top challenge.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So how do we teach kids and teens, who often can’t plan past lunch, how to think about their digital footprints and abstract concepts like ethics? Our scope and sequence documents lay out the appropriate learning objectives and associated lesson plans, activities, videos, and more to teach skills that are developmentally appropriate.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

"Food insecurity" means that, at some point in the year, a household lacked access to enough nutritious food to support an "active, healthy life for all household members." Department of Agriculture (USDA). " The same USDA study showed that 10% of U.S. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S. households with hungry children.

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Why Do I Do Good: The Center and Agape

Have Fun - Do Good

From a child''s eyes, it seemed like they were the most active members of the parish, organizing community events and giving back. Photo: This is a page from a scrapbook about growing up in Mystic that my childhood friend, Jill, made for me when I moved to California. Often the meetings were about how to keep the Mass in the Center.

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5 Hybrid Event Ideas for Youth Organizations

Qgiv

Youth organizations like yours don’t just help kids live happier, healthier childhoods—you prepare them for the future! Online participants can take part in activities via livestream or through apps. The work you do is invaluable to generations of people. That’s why the longevity of youth development organizations is so important!

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Encouraging Philanthropy at a Young Age: Teaching Your Kids To Give To Causes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In our family, I have involved my kids in fundraising activities from the time they were old enough to walk. My colleagues who support the The Sharing Foundation also make fundraising for their favorite cause a family activity. Amy says that now that her daughter has entered her teen years, they segued to more complex themes.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. She's a transgender teen and internet star whose story and spirit have inspired millions of people , including her peers, to better understand what it means to be transgender in today's society.

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