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Bridging the Opportunity Divide – Empowering Youth to Imagine and Realize their Futures

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Talking about global youth issues from a high-level is one thing, but it is so much more impactful and inspiring to sit down with young people and hear their stories of challenge and success directly. NFTE and four other youth nonprofits will receive new funding from Microsoft to enhance existing youth programs or start new initiatives.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers. They are artists whose experience deserves a home in our institution alongside painters, photographers, and sculptors.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Bloomerang

By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. They will consider significant local or regional initiatives with the potential to leverage broader national or global impact. New Venture Fund. Areas served: US.

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2021 Funding & Grant Resources For Women’s Empowerment Organizations

Kindful

By funding these nonprofits in their nascent stages, they help them to test their programs and initiatives, and scale them for maximum impact in their local communities. They will consider significant local or regional initiatives with the potential to leverage broader national or global impact. New Venture Fund. Areas served: US.

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

NTEN

However, the judges were sure to point out that a social impact game shouldn't have to try to invent new game genres to create an experience where players can empathize with the characters. They utilized an existing game engine that is popular among the PC modding community (Half Life 2). JURY FEEDBACK. BOTTOM LINE & FUNDING.

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Creating Markets for Fair Trade Gifts: An Interview with Priya Haji of World of Good

Have Fun - Do Good

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. We have seen it in energy, and increasingly now with energy technologies. So anyway, it is really exciting. So that has been this huge, exciting progress.

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Off the Mat, Into the World: An Interview with Seane Corn

Have Fun - Do Good

The genocide selectively targeted the educated: doctors, lawyers, and scientists, but also artists and poets were all annihilated so as to make room for this zero culture, people with no expression, no personalities, no agendas. Even though it's in the best interest of the children, it could impact the family. It felt good to scream.