This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How do you encourage that kind of curiosity and passion in kids, and the persistence to follow where it leads? Elm City wants to find out. It’s one of three…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are service opportunities for young people in just about every category you could imagine. And thanks to GreatNonprofits, they’re easy to find and sort by your area of interest:…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On Saturday, March 3, Bloomberg hosted its 5th annual Startup Young Women’s Leadership Summit, convening 500 high school and college-aged girls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a day of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I recently arrived at my first assignment with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Sudan’s West Darfur State. MSF is working in a small health centre in a camp for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “AI is the most important issue shaping society,” said veteran venture investor Ted Dintersmith. Concerned that the country wasn’t mobilizing for the automation economy, Ted left his fund, and produced a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Sharon Reasonover first started volunteering at the age of 16. It was the summer before her junior year of high school, and she hadn’t really understood the meaning behind doing…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Giving Compass’ Take: • Fondation de France was founded at the end of the 1960s as a tool to develop private philanthropy in France and to respond to the most urgent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For generations, youth of color have sparked movements igniting a fight for safe, healthy and just schools and communities. Often they’ve waged long-term campaigns against great odds as they watch…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Colorado State University-Pueblo is adding three post-doctoral researchers as part of a five-year, $6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education that it received in 2016. The grant is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Latino teachers are eager to serve as role models and cultural stewards, but they feel their extra work as interpreters for Spanish-speaking families is undervalued, according to a new report…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It is perhaps not surprising that President Donald Trump and other conservative lawmakers would find a way to blame former President Barack Obama in some fashion for the Parkland school…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. If Rose Thomas were in my high school civics class, I’d give her an A. Thomas is the student council president of Bexley High School in Columbus, Ohio, and a…