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How Mentorship Can Break Down Racial Divides

Saleforce Nonprofit

My professors took a chance on me and found a television internship that turned into a full-time reporting gig, all while juggling classes during my senior year. Fostering Understanding & Breaking Down Barriers It’s also an opportunity to educate: more than 68% of the volunteer mentors are white or non-Black.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Education, healthcare, violence, lack of economic resources, trafficking, to name just a few. Learn more!

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

Lambda Legal Lambda Legal is the oldest and largest national legal organization whose mission is to achieve full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and those with HIV through impact litigation, education and public policy work. Donate | Volunteer | Advocate | Twitter | Facebook.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

For instance, the Drivers Cooperative in New York started in an educational classroom among Uber and Lyft drivers, after workers became tired of paying high commission fees to these platform companies while also being required to pay for their own job expenses such as insurance and repairs. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. It got the seeds planted in my head that this is an altruistic community, it's an educated community. It's really an educational facility, but they're never again allowed to work.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

I got involved in some of the anti-globalization work at that time and my group, Art and Revolution, was doing a lot of education and outreach through dance and giant puppets and theater and doing a lot of tours to mobilize people to come to Seattle. So we're bringing a lot of elements together, the innerpersonal the activist.

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