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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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While you’re wearing and shopping, it’s important to keep in mind that in recent years, the “pinkification” of Breast Cancer Awareness Month has become an important issue due to companies who make pink product packaging during the awareness month but still manufacture and sell products that are linked to an increased risk of breast cancer.

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Teenagers, Space-Makers, and Scaling Up to Change the World

Museum 2.0

This week, my colleague Emily Hope Dobkin has a beautiful guest post on the Incluseum blog about the Subjects to Change teen program that Emily runs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Subjects to Change is an unusual museum program in that it explicitly focuses on empowering teens as community leaders.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone.

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

Connection Cafe

Youth unemployment was a critical issue for the city at that time – an issue that aligned with John Hancock’s business goals of providing meaningful job opportunities to young people in the community as well as helping them to be better prepared to enter the workforce. How did these groups come together?

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

It has been almost three weeks since we concluded bbcon 2018 in Orlando, and we’re still wrapping our head around the terrific content seen and inspiring conversations overheard amongst over 2,000 attendees from across the social, private and public sectors. Takeaway #4: Collaboration is necessary to solve the big issues today. .

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

Discover how the power of social sharing can shine a light on a serious issue and poke fun at the inanity of discrimination. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

By slowing down and making a piece of art for someone, we provide a personal connection to the issues and to individuals and create opportunities to see our commonalities despite geographic or cultural borders. There are many issues that affect the well-being of women and their communities.