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

Kindful

Host a supply drive. Host a menstrual health product drive. Host a fundraiser. Mission: Girls Write Nashville is a nonprofit songwriting mentorship program based in Nashville, TN, that cultivates empowered expression and positive community for teen girls. Impacting: Empowerment through music education.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens.

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How Cross-Sector Collaboration is Helping Fight Youth Unemployment in Boston

Connection Cafe

Boston University provides in-kind space to host professional development forums, EVERFI supplies financial literacy coursework, and Boston’s Center for Teen Empowerment adds expertise in the youth development space. How did these groups come together?

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. She surveyed existing local programs.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

Empowerment for our participants comes from connecting to an inner wisdom that is often kept hidden from public view, but is a place of extraordinary innate strength and well being. Anyone can become a facilitator and host a workshop in their community, and we encourage everyone to get involved. First of all, you can make a postcard!

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Live Blog Post from MacArthur Foundation: Virtual World Event on Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur Foundation hosted its first discussion in Second Life to explore the role that philanthropy might play in virtual worlds. Open spaces like the Internet are always going to be about empowerment and you need to have tolerance. Teen Listening Party and Global Kids coverage. The John D. and Catherine T.

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