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Symantec Donation Safeguards Computer Labs for Students

Tech Soup

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. It also costs students the ability to complete their work.

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Marketing for Every Moment of the Student Engagement Lifecycle

Connection Cafe

Your work attracts new students, engages current students, and delights alumni and donors. Attracting Students. Potential students are excited and nervous all at once. As marketers, we’re always trying to stay on top of the latest trends—and college-age students are a discerning audience. Hold Students’ Attentions.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. These apps encourage young people to get involved in civic and political issues.

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Switching gears: How I found my place in volunteering

ASU Lodestar Center

A passion of mine for the last 13 years has been working with high school teens through my church youth group. During my last year as a student at ASU, I completed a youth ministry internship at the All Saints Catholic Newman Center on the Tempe campus. Well, mainly because I wanted more for the teens of St. Vincent de Paul.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

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? This year alone, Joseph Perez created an entire collaborative program that uses hip hop to teach students about life. Because I'm lost.".

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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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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. If I'm an engaged spectator in the groundswell--using Yelp!

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