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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Feed people?

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentors: Bobby Deleon and Michel Daniel and students from ECHS - Speed Networking. Spence, an 11 th grader at ECHS wrote, “I am one of the Environmental Charter students you presented to on Friday. Your Efforts Could Change Lives Immediately. She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing.

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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

We all look similar in our sweatshirts, and the mission and goals of our work — to do good service, to help others, to create change — unite us even more. This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. I hope that you'll join us.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. technological solution.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

She joins us just in time to start a new school year and meet a new group of wonderful nonprofit students! When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. I got a group of 8 teens together and I taught them a simple Photoshop project.