Youth Leadership

G(irls)20 Summit-Empowering Girls and Women Is Key to Economic Growth

Claire Charness | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: G(irls)20 Summit, Female Leadership, Youth Leadership, Women's Issues, g20, Global Women's Issues, Canada, Impact News
Claire Charness

If you help a young girl or woman find the confidence and the belief in her, she will break barriers in the future, both in an economic and political environment and in all areas of her life.

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5 Tips For Young Professionals Who Want To Make A Difference

Monisha Kapila | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Spring Into Action, Latin American Youth Center, Marian Leitner, Taproot Foundation, Proinspire, Hands on Network, Nonprofit, Gavi, ProInspire Fellows, Blair Hewes, Youth Leadership, Bankers Without Borders, Pro Bono, Impact News
Monisha Kapila

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the challenges facing children and families in our communities and worldwide. In the U.S. alone, more than 15 percent...

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Joining Lady Gaga's New Foundation To Build A Kinder World

Connie Yowell | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Lady Gaga Born This Way, Youth, Born This Way Foundation, Youth Leadership, Video, Education News
Connie Yowell

A virtual army 19 million strong on Twitter and 48 million strong on Facebook, Lady Gaga's supporters are primed and excited, and through her new Foundation, they can get the help they need to make a real-world difference for themselves and their communities.

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Teen Impact: Finalist #6

Mary-Pat Hector | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Shake Off Violence, Teen Impact, Youth Violence, Youth Leadership, Bslide-Universalpictures, Youth Activism, Video, High School News
Mary-Pat Hector

I created a national campaign, Shake Off Violence, beginning with a 90-day ceasefire. The purpose of the campaign is to raise public awareness about youth violence and to promote peace.

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Arrests and Jail On Wall St.

Father Paul Mayer | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: High Crime on Wall St., Youth Leadership, Wall St. Occupation, Non -Violent Civil Disobedience, Politics News
Father Paul Mayer

or me the willingness to risk arrest is not like the moth flying into the flame. Rather it is an attempt by the powerless to communicate when all else has failed.

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Usher's New Look: Building Young Leaders

Stephenie Foster | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: Usher, Women's Leadership, New Look Foundation, Youth Leadership, Impact News
Stephenie Foster

Usher started New Look in 1999, and the foundation has developed a model for engaging young people and giving them a strong sense of how they can affect the world they live in.

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Is Charity Doing More Harm Than Good In Cambodia?

Ken Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cambodia, HIV/AIDS, Charity, AIDS Orphans, Youth Leadership, Face-to-Face-Aids-Project, Impact News
Ken Wong

Are we supporting an environment where charities like SCC and Face-to-Face are helping others make profits, while they leave us to support their own peoples?

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Usher gives inner city youth 'New Look' on entrepreneurship, leadership, life

Mike Green | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Inner City, Usher's New Look Foundation, Small Business, Youth, New Look Foundation, Social Entrepreneurship, Usher, Youth Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Business, Grammy Awards, Education News
Mike Green

Millions of music fans know Usher (Usher Raymond IV) as a phenomenal performer who has captivated the music scene for 15 years. With five Grammy Award...

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Charity as a Drop in the Bucket: Day 9

Ken Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Malawi, AIDS Orphans, HIV/AIDS Africa, Youth Leadership, Face-to-Face-Aids-Project, Impact News
Ken Wong

I spent nine days in Malawi trying to turn deformed maize, witchcraft, and HIV into catalysts of change. Join me and my Face-to-Face AIDS Project and see how our ideas of charity evolve with on-the-ground experiences.

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Soaringwords Creates a Popcorn Explosion in Local Hospital

Lisa Honig Buksbaum | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospitalized Children, Community Service, Lincoln Hospital, Youth Leadership, Volunteering, New York News
Lisa Honig Buksbaum

For the students, patients, doctors and nurses, it was clear that life is whole lot more fun when you heat things up with even a few minutes of compassion and laughter.

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Charity as a Drop in the Bucket: Day 8

Ken Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Malawi, Youth Leadership, Face-to-Face-Aids-Project, Impact News
Ken Wong

I spent nine days in Malawi trying to turn HIV into a catalyst of change. Join me and my Face-to-Face AIDS Project and see how our ideas of charity evolve with on-the-ground experiences.

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The Brooklyn Steppers March Forward, Giving to the Community and Gaining in the Process

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Borough President, High School Graduation, United Nations, Music, JHS 113, Arts, Thought Leaders, Queens, CUNY System, Antonio Thompson, Brooklyn Steppers, Youth Leadership, Facebook, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Haiti, Global Citizens, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Oiww, Musical Instruments, Columbia University, Community Involvement, Community Service, Inner City Life, Ohio, Academics, Barack Obama Inauguration, Orphans International Worldwide, Wynton Marsalis, New York University, Music Programs, Marty Markowitz, New York News
Jim Luce

In high school I had been manager of our marching band in Ohio. It was a grueling task, but rewarding to see my friends play and march so well. The ...

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SNCC, Fifty Years Later

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Luther King Jr., Civil Rights Movement, Youth Leadership, Marian Wright Edelman, Youth Activism, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

On Feb. 1, 1960, when I was a senior in college in Atlanta, four black freshmen from North Carolina sat in at a Whites-only lunch counter in a Greensboro Woolworth's store. It was just the spark I and so many black youth were waiting for.

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Get Out Your Dancin' Shoes

Lisa Honig Buksbaum | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Volunteering, Nia, Health, Make a Difference, Donating to Charity, Volunteer Stories Obama, Hospital Outrach, Dance, Youth Leadership, Healthy Living News
Lisa Honig Buksbaum

My latest experiment in empathy has truly given me more appreciation of the little things, such as the person who gives me a seat in the subway, or holds a door open for me.

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