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Pottsboro Area Library: The Winner of TechSoup’s February Success Story Digital Connector Challenge

Tech Soup

Here’s Dianne’s winning submission in its entirety: “The Pottsboro Library has made bridging the digital divide for teens a priority. A local TV station employee was hired to work with the teens in a 6-week course where they created a promotional video for the library. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

story chronicled a middle school student who built an app to help him. Not only did the piece showcase the uniqueness of this particular student, but also the opportunity to cultivate creativity through technical. awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Follow Mobile Action Lab on Twitter.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Michael Soto traveled to every corner of Arizona to facilitate a comprehensive arts education program he designed.

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Simplifying nonprofit strategic planning for beginners 

Get Fully Funded

If your organization provides after-school support, you serve students and may provide academic enrichment, social opportunities, and activities. What about your students’ families? Should supporting the families of the students you serve be part of your mission? How many teens do you want to serve in years one, two, and three?

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. Over 30% of our staff statewide are either former Workshop students or parent volunteers. There was a spirit of conviviality and purpose and helpfulness and Spanglish in the air.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Zandria did a fabulous job of facilitating the session. Nonprofit Leadership, Innovation and Change: Christopher Scott is a nonprofit leader who founded A Day of Hope , a student based organization that delivers baskets of food and turkeys to families for Thanksgiving. So, having this opportunity listen was very valuable.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: What Does it Really Mean to Serve "Underserved" Audiences?

Museum 2.0

Guards staring at black teens and grumbling about their clothes. In the summer, they spend 8 weeks working full-time at the Taylor Center learning and facilitating public programs. What started with 15 students in 1997 has grown to support 200 students per year. YES students defy expectations.