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Reflections from Social Good Brasil and a New Word: PhilanthroTeen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Magic happens when social entrepreneurs, nonprofits leaders, technologists, and young people are brought together for a high energy, creative, and interactive event that exposes everyone to new ideas and stories. Teens As Free Agents. I had a lot of fun with my keynote. ” Philantroteens.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Additionally, Microsoft recently announced its YouthSpark initiative, which aims to create opportunities for 300 million young people over the next three years. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Image: App Inventor Workshop ( Flickr ). Political Engagement and Activism.

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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens. million revenue per year.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Community science workshops. In the next month, this blog will feature guest posts from a few of the people behind these innovative, quirky institutions, but in the meantime, here's a short list of six of my favorites to explore.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

It was a natural choice for me, as an artist, to begin holding workshops for women and girls using creativity as a way for my own self expression and dreams to emerge. In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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