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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

Kindful

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. Learn more about Porter’s Call. Robbie’s Hope. They’ve made it their mission to stop the suicide epidemic that’s taking the lives of their friends. Impacting: Mental health.

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Technology's Emerging, Enthusiastic Leaders

NTEN

iUrban Teen. iUrban Teen is working with students to spark and fuel the fires of innovation within tomorrow's tech leaders. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.” This is where the iUrban Teen program comes in. iUrban Teen Leadership tech leadership'

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The most recent Pew Internet Project Internet and technology use studies show how immersed teens and young adults are in the online environment and how tied they are to the mobile and social sides of it. Some 95% of teens ages 12-17 are online, 76% use social networking sites, and 77% have cell phones.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

2015 – Teens As Candid’s grants data approached its teenage years, many changes began to take place. Around this time, we also introduced the Philanthropy Classification System —a detailed coding system that provided more nuanced ways to explore this larger data set. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets.

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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. Java, meanwhile, has become an important language for app development, particularly for smartphones running the Android operating system. He saw the potential of Java as a language and tried to expose Vineet to it.

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Why Now is the Time for Boys & Girls Clubs of America to Invest in Digital

Saleforce Nonprofit

For more than a century, Boys & Girls Clubs around the country opened their doors each day to millions of kids and teens, literally and symbolically. By: Sara Leutzinger, National Director, External Communications & Content Strategy for Boys & Girls Club of America. Opening doors.

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How Quickbooks Helps a Nonprofit Recharge Teenagers

Tech Soup

Inward Bound Mindfulness Education (iBme) is dedicated to improving the lives of teens through mindfulness retreats. The organization offers weekend and weeklong residential mindfulness retreats for teens, including poor youth and those with major emotional issues. Mindfulness Retreats for Poor Teens. million revenue per year.

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