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20.11.2024 | DoSomething’s Camp Reboot Wins an Anthem Award For Its Work to Equip Gen Z to Take Care of Their Mental Health | DoSomething's Camp Reboot
DoSomething won a Bronze Anthem Award for its Camp Reboot program, educating over 100,000 young people on mental health and wellness.
We are so thankful to Anthem Awards program for recognizing our efforts to equip... |
22.10.2024 | DoSomething Announces "Offline Mode" Pledge in Partnership with General Motors to Promote Teen Driver Safety | Offline Mode NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, October 22, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- DoSomething, the leading hub for youth-centered impact, in collaboration with one of the largest automobile manufacturers, General Motors, is proud to announce... |
06.02.2024 | DoSomething.org Launches ‘Science Go Seek’ $3,000 Grant Challenge To Fuel STEM Education At Schools Nationwide | Science Go Seek inspires young people to see how STEM is relevant to their lives by seeking out hidden connections between STEM and their hobbies NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, February 6, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- DoSomething.org, the hub f... |
20.07.2023 | DoSomething.org Teams up with General Motors to Address the Link between Mental Health and Distracted Driving | Eyes Ride Open equips young drivers with peer-to-peer actions that pave the way for safe roads NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, July 20, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- DoSomething.org’s new program Eyes Ride Open continues its collaboration with Gen... |
18.07.2023 | DoSomething.org Welcomes Keely Yednock-Quinn as Vice President of Programming & Impact | Yednock-Quinn set to lead changes in programming to support DoSomething's mission of fueling young people to change the world NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES, July 18, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- DoSomething.org, the digital hub for youth-centere... |
25.05.2023 | DoSomething.org Launches Generation Future Award to Recognize Youth Leaders Fueling Change | DoSomething.org. Fueling young people to change the world.
Young leaders to receive $5,000 grants and be recognized at DoSomething’s 30th anniversary celebration–The Futures Ball–in New York City this November NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STA... |
14.03.2023 | DoSomething.org Welcomes New Member to Its Board of Directors | Dosomething.org logo
New Director brings in-depth knowledge and expertise of the global community impact and volunteerism sectors to the thirty-year old youth-centered organization NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, March 14, 2023 /EINPress... |
01.03.2023 | DoSomething.org Launches The Art of Democracy Program to Promote Youth Civic Participation | Dosomething.org logo
A series of civic conversations across New York City ahead of 2023 city council elections to help foster civic engagement habits among New York City youth. NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES , March 1, 2023 /EINPresswire... |
08.02.2023 | DoSomething.org Announces the Appointment of Two New Board Members to its Board of Directors | Dosomething.org logo NEW YORK, NEW YORK , UNITED STATES , February 8, 2023 /EINPresswire.com/ -- DoSomething.org, the national hub for youth-centered activism, is pleased to announce the appointment of Grace Ko Chau and Roselinde Torres to ... |
30.11.2022 | DoSomething.org Launches Make STEM 100% Program to Fuel the Next Generation of STEM Leaders | Dosomething.org logo
Organization to launch a PSA highlighting diversity gaps in STEM and equip young people to advocate for more equitable STEM education in their schools NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES , November 30, 2022 /EINPresswire.... |
02.08.2022 | The Property Advocates Participates in Recent School Supplies Drive | In support of the local community, Florida insurance law firm The Property Advocates is collecting school supplies to donate for the upcoming school year.
CORAL GABLES, FLORIDA, UNITED STATES, August 2, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Proper... |
15.03.2022 | Why The Lego Foundation Wants To Improve Early Education Worldwide | In the 90 years of the LEGO brand, making an investment in the early years of a child’s development ... [+] may be more vital than ever. Lego |
01.02.2022 | What to Expect in 2022 and Beyond: AI, Industry 4.0 and Sustainable Tech Will Demand New Computing Paradigms | By Dave Moore, chief strategy officer and senior vice president at Micron
At the start of a new year, it's customary for Micron to take stock of what the next year (and the years after) will hold. While no one truly has a crystal ball into ... |
14.01.2022 | ZipRecruiter : Work and the Words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day With His Thoughts on Doing Work That Matters
Martin Luther King, Jr. is known for his tireless work dedicated to making the United States a more open, accepting, and diverse society for African Americ... |
08.12.2021 | A Call To Amend Domestic Violence Laws Nationwide To Include Coercion And Control | getty |
03.11.2021 | Windows 11: Should businesses take the leap of faith? | The cat’s out of the bag. Windows 11 is here, more than six years after the release of its predecessor, Windows 10.
Microsoft has promised Windows 11 will be "the most secure Windows operating system yet" which, if true, will come... |
25.10.2021 | eNaira launches today, What stuttering truly is, crypto thefts in 2020 | Share this article:
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22.10.2021 | Technology is awesome, but it’s yet to conquer stuttering | Share this article:
As I spoke with Charles Isidi — a growth marketing expert and digital media and marketing communications professional — over the phone, both of us stuttering to varying degrees as we discussed stuttering, words from a 20... |
12.08.2021 | DoSomething.org and National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Launch New Program to Educate Young People About the Importance of Meningococcal Disease Prevention | |
08.08.2021 | Ресурсономика и многомерные деньги | Как уменьшить бедность и при помощи технологий индивидуальных “прозрачных денег” и ресурсной кооперации.
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29.07.2021 | 3 Secrets To Rihanna's Business Success That Eclipsed Victoria's Secret And L'Oréal By Creating Relevant Brands For Today's Woman | July 29, 2021 7 min read
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14.07.2021 | vMOX Partners with Mobile reCell To Extend Device Reverse Logistics Capabilities | While the IT device recovery and disposition process is traditionally seen as clunky, by leveraging software on both sides, together vMOX and Mobile reCell will be able to feed information back and forth, delivering a streamlined process an... |
30.04.2021 | Gen Z Is Emerging As The Sustainability Generation | Teenager shopping at a flea marketgetty |
08.09.2020 | How To Amp Up Your Professional Development, Even From Home | getty |
23.06.2020 | Singapore Secondhand Electronics Marketplace Reebelo Raises US$1.25M Seed | 1
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Reebelo, a Singapore-based refurbished secondhand electronics marketplace startup, has announced a US$1.25 million seed funding round. The startup’s new capital will be used to accelerate the company’s expansion into A... |
14.04.2020 | How DoSomething.Org And Harry’s Are Tackling Mental Health For Young Men | New York Times Best-Selling Author & global entrepreneur Connor Franta.Dosomething.org |
14.04.2020 | As We Rebuild, Here’s the Part We Can’t Afford to Take Out | I live in New Orleans. In 2005, the aftermath of a once-in-a-century hurricane provided an opportunity to think anew about how to design an education system and rebuild a city.
The current hurricane—the coronavirus—gives us a chance to thin... |
22.03.2020 | 132,000+ Pairs Of Jeans Collected In 2020 Teens For Jeans Campaign | More than 132,000 pairs of jeans were collected in the 2020 Teens for Jeans campaign, a joint effort ... [+] between DoSomething.org and Aeropostale.Getty |
21.01.2020 | Need a New iPhone? Circular Marketplace Zoobbay Has Got You Covered | 76 1
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Hong Kong startup Zoobbay is the first marketplace in the city to offer premium refurbished phones in a bid to reduce e-waste. Their circular model of increasing the lifespan of electronics operates by taking in p... |
17.05.2018 | Here are the ways AI is helping to improve accessibility | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today marks the seventh Global Accessibility Awareness Day, a celebration of inclusion and digital access for people with disabilities.... |
01.02.2018 | ‘State of the Youth’ Spotlights Issues Concerning America’s Young People | One night after the State of the Union address, youth took the stage at the Newseum, in Washington D.C., to offer their take on the “State of the Youth.”
Similar to President Trump’s Tuesday night address, the speakers—who spanned ages 13 t... |
27.05.2017 | What if the disease you’re targeting isn’t economically viable? | Neglected diseases, on the other hand, might affect millions of people worldwide. They’re neglected because there’s no money to be made selling tests or drugs, because the people affected are among the three billion worldwide that live on l... |
28.02.2017 | Breaking Into Startups: How a 16-year-old dropout became a senior engineer at Slack | Ruben Harris Contributor
Ruben Harris is a professional cellist and a recovering investment banker who now leads partnerships in San Francisco for Honor, a healthcare startup focused on seniors. He is also a founder of the Breaking Into Sta... |
08.02.2017 | 5 Ways Technology Is Helping to Gamify Education | From 2010 to 2014, CB Insights found that the edtech industry saw 503 percent growth in total investment dollars. By 2020, it;s estimated to be a $192 billion industry. With the current high school dropout rate at 1.2 million across the cou... |
11.12.2016 | Blockchain and humanitarian causes: Helping those who need it most | Blockchain isn’t just for fintech. Several organizations, such as Bitnation, are using it to assist those in dire need, such as refugees and victims of human trafficking.
According to the UN Human Rights Council figures, 65 million people a... |
18.10.2016 | Messages about sexual abuse rise after Donald Trump video, Crisis Text Line reports | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Following the release of a video of Donald Trump bragging about kissing and groping women without consent, Crisis Text Line saw an incr... |
18.10.2016 | Messages about sexual abuse rise after Donald Trump video, Crisis Text Line reports | Following the release of a video of Donald Trump bragging about kissing and groping women without consent, Crisis Text Line saw an increase in messages about sexual abuse, founder Nancy Lublin told VentureBeat in a phone interview.
Crisis T... |
09.07.2016 | When Your Texting Service Doubles as a Life Coach | This piece originally appeared on Uncubed.com.
There are not a lot of ways to efficiently combat negativity, worry, and self-doubt. You could read a self-help book or maybe get a pep talk from your best friend. But perhaps the quickest way ... |
24.06.2016 | 360fly’s new ad is a racist mess. I thought we were better than this. | What do you do when nobody is paying attention to your 360-degree camera brand? Well, you have a couple of options. You could put together a campaign that shows how awesome your tech is and how it is the perfect match to your target audienc... |
23.06.2016 | Shine boosts teenage confidence via SMS and Facebook bot | Being a teenager is a rough ride at the best of times, and even the most confident of youngsters could do with a bit of a confidence bump. This is the market Shine has in its crosshairs, with an SMS and a brand new Facebook Messenger bot ai... |
13.06.2016 | White House gets major commitments on organ transplants, donations | Kidney patients account for more than 80 percent of patients on that waiting list. Jeffrey Zients, President Obama’s economic advisor, said patients with end-stage renal disease cost Medicare more than $34 billion annually. Zients pointed o... |
10.06.2016 | Scholarships are the new sweepstakes | Joe Edelheit Ross Contributor
Joe Edelheit Ross is the president and COO of Schoold and vice president of the San Mateo County Board of Education.
One million dollars. A student will earn that much more in life with a four-year college degr... |
03.02.2016 | Daily funding roundup - February 3, 2016 | TravelStart secured $40M; GeoFeedia received $17M; DisputeBills raised $400k funding
DisputeBills, provider of a medical bill reduction solution for individuals and businesses, closed a $400,000 seed round led by Chicago angel investor Step... |
03.02.2016 | After School, the anonymous social app for young students, raises $16.4 million | After School, the popular anonymous social app that sells itself as a “private message board for your school,” has raised $16.4 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Accomplice, formerly Atlas Ventures, Tikhon Bernstam, and Ange... |
03.02.2016 | After School, the anonymous social app for young students, raises $16.4 million | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After School, the popular anonymous social app that sells itself as a “private message board for your school,” has raised $16.4 million... |
20.01.2016 | How to Use Your Network to Become a Power Connector | “Sometimes you don’t choose when to act; it chooses you.”
For Cotential CEO Erica Dhawan, collaboration is how we get big things done. One of her greatest moments of collaboration was speaking at Davos four years ago while conducting resear... |
12.02.2015 | Developers have ‘the greatest reach that humanity has ever seen’: Twilio’s Rob Spectre | Rob Spectre gives a lot of presentations.
As the leader of Twilio’s developer evangelism team, he has over a dozen talks at the ready at any given time and 23 talks up on his GitHub. “I’m taking a very hard line this year. I’m no longer goi... |
30.03.2014 | African mobile company creates new emoticons in the name of emoji diversity | Oju Africa / Wired UK reader comments 172 with 86 posters participating
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25.03.2014 | How architects can pursue social impact design [event] | When terms like “social impact” lose meaning in our vocabulary, it’s important to cut out the noise.
That’s what’s graduate students of PennDesign wanted to do with Scale / Scope, an intensive two-day symposium on the value of social impact... |
19.02.2014 | How mobile developers are using games to help the victims of cyberbullying | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Cyberbullying is a product of the digital age, so one developer is looking to fight it using its digital games.
Developer Pixelberry ha... |
15.02.2014 | Dosomething.Org Taps Snapchat For Teen-Centric Valentine’s Campaign | Dosomething, a not-for-profit focused on making volunteer work and social change exciting to people under 25, is going after its key demographic where they’re comfortable: Snapchat.
The company used the photo-sharing platform, which has yet... |
04.02.2014 | 15% of U.S. teachers now use Remind101 to text students and their parents | Teens are fervent texters — they send thousands of texts a month and it is their dominant daily mode of communication.
Remind101 channels some of this texting fervor towards improving their performance in school. The company announced today... |
04.02.2014 | 15% of U.S. teachers now use Remind101 to text students and their parents | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Teens are fervent texters — they send thousands of texts a month and it is their dominant daily mode of communication.
Remind101 channe... |
24.01.2014 | This mobile app tries to pull the vicious weeds of bullying out at the roots (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Bullying is a destructive disease that the Internet has made stronger, shrewder, and more pernicious.
Kids (and adults) have bullied ea... |
12.08.2013 | Kiva and Dosomething.org turn microfinance into mobile game for teens | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Kiva and Dosomething.org are partnering up to fund 25,000 women entrepreneurs in a bid to help break the cycle of poverty.
The 25,000 W... |
12.08.2013 | Kiva and Dosomething.org turn microfinance into mobile game for teens | Kiva and Dosomething.org are partnering up to fund 25,000 women entrepreneurs in a bid to help break the cycle of poverty.
The 25,000 Women campaign aims at getting young people engaged in fighting poverty. Participants are aged between 13 ... |
01.07.2013 | I Spoke to the Reddit Pick-Up Artist Who Was Accused of Writing a 'Rape Guide' | Ken Hoinsky. (Photo courtesy of Ken Hoinsky)
Ken Hoinsky hasn't had the best couple of weeks. A moderator of Reddit's 130,000-strong "seduction community", Ken was thrust into the media spotlight after followers pledged $16,000 (£... |
14.06.2013 | Father’s Day: What’s your ROI? | Patrick O’Neill is the cofounder and CEO of YouGiveGoods.
To all the fathers out there who think they could be doing better, you are not alone. Recently released data from the federal’s government’s finds that 46 percent of you feel the sam... |
14.06.2012 | Bing, Lenovo, DoSomething.org Really Want Teens to Not Be Lazy This Summer | Bing continues its mission to get people #doing more as it has teamed up with Lenovo and DoSomething.org to launch “The Hunt: 11 Days of Doing,” a call to action for youngsters to get up off of their keisters and do some good in their commu... |
19.01.2012 | Mashable COO Adam Hirsch heading to nonprofit Do Something | Adam Hirsch, the chief operations officer at Mashable, an independent news site covering social media and technology, is leaving his job to head up digital at Do Something, the nonprofit that focuses on activating teens around social issues... |
19.01.2012 | Mashable COO Adam Hirsch heading to nonprofit Do Something | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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14.12.2011 | A Look At The Organizations That Grabbed $115 Million In Grants From Google In 2011 | As you may have heard, Google is getting into the holiday giving spirit these days, as it late last night announced that it has dished out an additional $40 million in philanthropic grants, targeted at science, technology, engineering, and ... |
07.09.2011 | InternMatch launches community pages to help companies compete for interns | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Intern job board InternMatch announced a $500,000... |
- | We're Excited To Announce our Investment in Bark's Series A | When it comes to raising children in today’s hyper-connected, always-on world, there’s no shortage of challenges for parents. With texting, email, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, and the wider universe of social media applications, it can be... |
- | White House gets major commitments on organ transplants, donations | The White House Organ Summit Monday in Washington brought hopeful news to the more than 120,000 Americans awaiting organ transplants.
The summit brought together leaders from social media, technology firms, organ transplant advocacy organiz... |
- | What if the disease you’re targeting isn’t economically viable? | There’s a difference between rare and neglected diseases, Valerie Pasquetto tells me as we sit in a small workspace in San Diego, California. It’s the home of a non-profit startup called Drugs & Diagnostics for Tropical Diseases (DDTD) ... |