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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

Mission: Through education and advocacy, the Colorado Mental Wellness Network seeks to provide opportunities for individuals to improve the quality of their lives, give back to the community through meaningful roles, and to change the perceptions of mental health. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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

Kindful

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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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is a New York City-based organization that provides services and advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders. One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. Sage CyberCenters.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

I often found myself asking, "What do you mean I have to create a volunteer program, or put together an advocacy training, or plan a Halloween carnival? Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Yet I think that that's the real beauty and power of this work.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Why do homeless people smell bad?” The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. and displayed in the museum. Resettlement scenarios due to sea level rise. Management was horrified.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society works to improve the lives of homeless and in-need animals across the Ontario region. Established in the merger of three separate lupus research nonprofits, the Alliance focuses equally on fundraising for research and spearheading advocacy efforts on behalf of the lupus community.