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Breaking the Cycle & Starting the Mental Health Conversation

Saleforce Nonprofit

After a year of pandemic-fueled isolation — undoubtedly a primary factor in 42% of adults experiencing anxiety and depression, up 11% from previous years — educational institutions and businesses are making the mental wellbeing of their students and employees a priority. Listen to episode five of the Force Multiplier podcast.

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Connecting Homeless Youth and Shelter Animals: 20-Year-Old Rachel Cohen, Hand2Paw

Have Fun - Do Good

Hand2Paw's mission is to connect homeless teens and shelter animals in a mutually beneficial way. They provide homeless teens with professional skills training and therapeutic experiences. You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. vlogging, and podcasting). This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. It is written, edited and produced by students and other volunteers in the valley. "Do young people have email accounts?

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Do-Good Tranquilista: Interview with Kimberly Wilson

Have Fun - Do Good

One of the places I go for inspiration during my day is to the books , blog , podcast, and Twitter feed of Kimberly Wilson. Below is an edited transcript of my November 3rd interview with Kimberly for the Big Vision Podcast. Do you have any favorite Tranquil Teens success stories? We came up with our first program.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

Have Fun - Do Good

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. The CD features music and spoken word by Bay Area artists such as Aya de Leon and Michael Franti.

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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

Museum 2.0

For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. You can check out the path of some of the teen sculptures here. The process is somewhat involved, but fairly simple.

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