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50 Nonprofits Every U.S. Politican Should Follow on Twitter

Nonprofit Tech for Good

American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) :: @ AARP. American Heart Association :: @ American_Heart. American Wind Energy Association :: @ AWEA. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy :: @ TheNC. Ashoka :: @ Ashoka.

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Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment

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Mission: Helping Women Period is committed to supplying menstrual health products to people that menstruate who are either homeless or low-income. Mission: Girls Write Nashville is a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program based in Nashville, TN, that cultivates empowered expression and positive community for teen girls.

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Symantec Donation Safeguards Computer Labs for Students

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Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. Its mentorship helps prevent its clients from re-entering the foster and judicial system or repeating poverty and homelessness cycles. Breaking Harmful Cycles.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

According to the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) , only one in seven children who are eligible for free or subsidized school lunches receive summer meals. "We're always looking at mobile services that can help impoverished, low income, and homeless communities," she told TechSoup.

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Nancy Wins Free Copy of Being the Difference

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After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids. The "extraordinary" thing Terri has done to change the world is the successful implementation of a mentoring program called Stand and Deliver for teens in the challenged community of Lawrence, MA.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

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Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. Diane told me several stories about teens who came in thinking of themselves as dumb but changed their perspective as their confidence grew in two areas they associated with intelligence--knowing science and being able to teach.