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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

The Allstate Foundation not only provides resources directly to youth-led service initiatives but also involves youth in funding decisions. But grantmakers need not create a new program to fund youth service programs, noted Weatherford.

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Collective Lens: Photography for Social Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Successful fund raisers for social causes have known that for a long time. A recent series of studies by psychologists provides the research that proves it -- they have found that fund-raising appeals do best when they are crafted around a single gripping image. It uses images to promote social and humanitarian causes.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love. PG: Well, yes.