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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

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Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens. Their goal is to cut teen suicide rates in half by 2028. Mission: The Tacoma Recovery Center and Café is a community of women and men impacted by substance disorders, addiction, homelessness, PTSD, and other mental health challenges.

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How to Write Fundraising Emails That Get Results

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For example: “Many teen girls struggle with their self-esteem thanks to Instagram and Snapchat. Please help us open the door for a teen to attend our personal development conference, benefit from having a mentor, and get on a path to college and a career.” . It was a bleak situation and they were days away from being homeless.

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Symantec Donation Safeguards Computer Labs for Students

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The Inland Empire, which encompasses 27,000 square miles in Southern California, has one of the highest rates of poverty in the U.S.'s Smooth Transition began working to reach at-risk teens early — before they dropped out of high school or left the foster care system. 's twenty-five metropolitan areas.

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Ali Forney Center Saves Time and Effort with Norton Security

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Transgender teen Ali Forney fled his home at age 13. Forney continually helped other youth that were facing similar difficult circumstances, and he became a public advocate for improving safety for homeless youth until his life was tragically cut short. homeless youth LGBTQ security nonprofits privacy Norton symantec'

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

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Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? Analisa Xavier implemented Native American Connections ' first ever teen after-school programs. Can we break that down one more time?

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

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"We're always looking at mobile services that can help impoverished, low income, and homeless communities," she told TechSoup. Jessica Pérez Blasko, children and teen services manager at the Lancaster Public Library , posted a flier about Range on the library's community bulletin board.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. Text Crisis Line. R u there?”.