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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

It’s easy to see why: One in seven American teens is estimated to have a mental health condition, and 76% of students say wellbeing is a top challenge. Benjamin Perks, UNICEF’s head of campaigns and advocacy, has seen firsthand how mental illness comes from adverse childhood experiences. “I

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

Full disclosure: This is from our founder George, who also co-founded PowerPoetry.org , the largest teen poetry platform in the US. While you’re at it, read about the IRC’s awesome partnership with Sesame Workshop , BRAC and NYU to develop the largest early childhood intervention program in history with the support of a LEGO Foundation grant!

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Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project

AFP Blog

Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives | Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project : Overview Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who (..)

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

No matter what the future has in store, we need to prepare ourselves and our kids with a shared vernacular and a core set of life skills that transcend the technology flavor of the week and reinforce critical thinking, kindness, and responsibility. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone? Still the stuff of science fiction for most.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

"Food insecurity" means that, at some point in the year, a household lacked access to enough nutritious food to support an "active, healthy life for all household members." Department of Agriculture (USDA). " The same USDA study showed that 10% of U.S. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S. households with hungry children.

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since GoFundMe is an open platform where people can solicit support for life events of any kind users have found plenty of uses for it – like supporting charitable causes. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. EMILY's List , She Should Run , and Emerge America are working to empower women from all walks of life to run for office and fight for more representative government - they've got our vote!

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