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Mental Health Awareness Month: 10 Nonprofits Advocating For Change

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Mission: Under the Laughs for the Troops umbrella, you will find many other great programs to help our veterans, increase awareness of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), raise funds, and recruit volunteers. Mission: Robbie’s Hope is an uprising of teens to help other teens.

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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. June 1-22: My Juicy Blogging E-course: The Art and Play of Blogging for Artists, Writers, Creative Entrepreneurs and Do-Gooders.

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Jen Louden, Savor and Serve: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

This picture is from the "Chalk Art Phase" last summer in which we would write loving messages on chalk - Lilly is the artist, I'm the lookout and embellisher. Since finding cool things to do with your teens can be a challenge (at least for me), consider guerilla art love as your next Savor and Serve project!

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. This style of game play connects the brain and body to the game’s experience. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

NTEN

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities.

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