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Student social good startups collect $95K in T-Mobile competition

TechCrunch

A diverse collection of students with big ideas will split about $95,000 in prize money after competing in T-Mobile’s Changemaker Challenge. Robotic rehabilitation glove wins Microsoft’s 20th Imagine Cup for student inventors. Books N Bros (St. Some of these are pretty legit.

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Here’s how you can donate to support the fight for justice right now

The Verge

National Bail Fund Network. According to the website: “The Community Justice Exchange is a national hub for developing, sharing, and experimenting with tactical interventions, strategic organizing practices, and innovative organizing tools to end mass incarceration.” National Lawyers Guild. Bail and legal funds.

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Celebrating Black history and Black futures

Candid

This was necessary, as Black students continued to be unwelcome at institutions of higher education, despite legislation that promised otherwise. An HBCU Midnight Brunch during Juneteenth weekend at the Roots 101: African American Museum , a nonprofit in Louisville, Kentucky, exemplifies this fusion of the past and what is to come.

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Funding And Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Youth Programs

Kindful

National Park Trust. National Park Trust. Areas served: Kentucky, southern Indiana. They believe that by “placing children at the center of this movement, their well-being becomes the focus of their collective work, and with it comes higher achieving students, highly-engaged young people, and a brighter future for Detroit.”

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37 Spring Fundraising Ideas for Small Nonprofits

Whole Whale

March 7 is National Cereal Day and who doesn’t love a cereal buffet? SpringFundraising idea Number 2: Celebrate National Cereal Day with a pajama party for good. Over 30 fundraising ideas for spring, from daylight savings time to National Haiku Day. National Haiku Day is April 17. Cereal-for-Dinner Dinner Party (March 7).

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Finding the Great Impact Story

Tech Soup

We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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Should abuse survivors have to disappear from the internet?

The Verge

One in four women and one in nine men will experience severe intimate partner physical violence at some point in their lives, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. I’ve had victims say, he was threatening me and doing all this stuff through social media so I got off social media,” she explained.