From Phones to Facebook: How to Engage Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media | NTEN

From Phones to Facebook: How to Engage Youth on the Front Lines of Social Media | NTEN

Outstanding Youth ‘just wanted to help some children' | Observer and Eccentric Newspapers and Hometown Weeklies | hometownlife.com

Outstanding Youth ‘just wanted to help some children' | Observer and Eccentric Newspapers and Hometown Weeklies | hometownlife.com: But the former foster child also wasn't expecting to receive the Sparky Anderson Award for Youth in Philanthropy in November from the Greater Detroit Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals for collecting a classroom of clothing for other foster children.

As she said back then, “I just wanted to help some children.

Foundation for MetroWest teaches students to be philanthropists - Boston.com

Foundation for MetroWest teaches students to be philanthropists - Boston.com: This spring, the Foundation for MetroWest will award up to $60,000 to local nonprofit organizations, the culmination of months spent reviewing grant applications, trekking to sites, and debating the merits of each proposal.

The decision-makers behind these awards: high school students.

The South Jersey Sun - Tot inspires toy drive for Haiti

The South Jersey Sun - Tot inspires toy drive for Haiti: “And a little child will lead them.”

Three-year-old Christopher Sempier of Cherry Hill has led the way with a toy drive to benefit the children of Haiti.

ABRHS Students Commended for Giving Back - Acton, MA Patch

ABRHS Students Commended for Giving Back - Acton, MA Patch: Logging 67,677 hours of charitable work, the 698 recipients of ABRHS Community Service Certificates, ABRHS Community Service Awards, and President’s Volunteer Service Awards impressed principal Alixe Callen.

“We don’t require community service,” Dr. Callen said, adding that she is pleased that volunteerism has become such a large part of the school’s culture. “We honor it because we believe in it.”

Nurturing a heart for helping others

Nurturing a heart for helping others: For a child to think about another family living a parallel, yet shockingly different life in Africa or Nepal or South America - or right here in Edmonton - can be a difficult stretch. But the truth is that some children walk miles for water or face imminent death due to violence.

How, as parents, friends, and teachers, do we nurture a sense of generosity in children and show them that community goes beyond national borders?

Several Edmonton families are working to do just that, and the benefits are touching and practical.

Fundraising professionals honor young philanthropists | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com

Fundraising professionals honor young philanthropists | FLORIDA TODAY | floridatoday.com: A student at Florida Tech has been named co-recipient of the 2012 Changing Our World/Simms Award for Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy, ages 18-23, announced the school and the Space Coast Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Starting a charity at 8? Meet the generation taking action - The Globe and Mail

Starting a charity at 8? Meet the generation taking action - The Globe and Mail: Ms. Perera’s story is impressive, but no longer unique. She’s one of a growing throng of social-minded young charity crusaders who heed the call for change. Rather than turning to established foundations, they’re starting their own. Youths – and in many cases, even younger children – are the driving force in the grassroots fight to help others.

Williamston teen raises funds for kids in Uganda, Haiti | Lansing State Journal | lansingstatejournal.com: But, not many 12-year-olds devote their time to helping children in war-torn Uganda and earthquake-ravaged Haiti.

Madison does. And she's not stopping there.

"We have a lot of places where we could go next with this," said Madison, a seventh-grader at Williamston Middle School. "They had flooding in Cambodia. There are still a lot of people hurting in Japan and there are still a lot of people hurting in Chile."