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Creative Event Ideas To Get Students Involved In Your Nonprofit

Bloomerang

Students are bursting with potential. Nonprofit activities shape the students, teaching them valuable skills, helping them foster empathy, and connecting them to causes that matter. Creating student-friendly events taps into this potential. Students bring unmatched creativity, enthusiasm, and perspective to nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Leadership Isn’t Perfect, and That’s the Point

Blue Avocado

Throughout my life, from teenage years to now, my career has been filled with leadership training programs: Teen leadership, student leadership, emerging leadership, and executive leadership. I cant think of a term more widely used in the professional world than leadership.

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Best Buy investing millions in Brown Venture Group, a firm exclusively backing BIPOC founders

TechCrunch

For its part, Best Buy — which notched $47 billion in revenue last year — said the move is aimed at helping “break down the systemic barriers often faced by Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) entrepreneurs — including lack of access to funding — and empowering the next generation within the tech industry. ”.

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Great reads from around the web on February 11th

Amy Sample Ward

Today's teens also plan to be generous when they get older. More than 75% say they will regularly give to charity, versus 63% in 1989, according to a nationwide survey by the Girl Scout Research Institute of 3,263 students in grades three through 12." But hold on.

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Friendly Apps raises $3 million, pre-product, for apps that improve people’s well-being

TechCrunch

In fact, the founder had just joined Twitter in March, where he intended to aid the social network by building out new product experiences for teens via its 0–>1 team. Although the startup will take the learnings from social apps and products he’s helped create for teens, its apps won’t be solely aimed at Gen Z users.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

Tutor students so they can reach their potential in school? Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Or are you looking to open a shelter for teens who have left or been kicked out of their homes, a need totally different than the family shelters in your community.

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Tech forgot its umbrella

TechCrunch

It needs an industrial umbrella. of all VC funds in 2022, a drop from 2021 Image Credits: Emily Malan Gas Discord has acquired Gas, a compliments-based social media app for teens. Teens might be asked to choose which of four friends is the best DJ or has the best smile. Amazing advice for anyone who is a student or just … new.

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