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The Future Today: Empowering youth via social media

Amy Sample Ward

Youth Empowerment with Social Media. If you are looking for more examples about social media and communications technologies applied to youth empowerment, here are some additional links/groups to check out: [link] (social media used as outreach about teen dating violence). View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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“Black & Proud”

M+R

While “Say it Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud)” addresses Black love, joy, and empowerment, the proud (on my t-shirt) is focused on self-affirmation, dignity, and equality. Taken together “Black & Proud” is a recognition that we live intersectional lives. That is, there are folks who both identify as Black and queer.

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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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3 Ways Your Creative Can Move Your Social Movement Forward

Connection Cafe

Some of the most successful social movements for good developed strategies and approaches where creative was included to spark involvement from participants. These strategies and approaches have been the support for movements to gain traction—although on their own, and not as the linchpin that made the movement itself.

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4 bbcon Takeaways for Philanthropic Organizations to Power 2019 Planning

Connection Cafe

If you missed this year’s conference, you can still use the below points to power new strategies and optimize existing ones. . Success is bridging the gap between data and strategy . Takeaway #1: Think holistically about your program . Know your audience . Align with the goals of the organization and people you serve .

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

Social Good Shark Tank Speaker: Peter Panepento, Principal, Panepento Strategies. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. It''s never been easier to engage supporters online.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. The empowerment of girls in third world countries is a topic many corporate sponsors are looking to endorse.

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