Daniel Kent: Not Just Tomorrow's Leaders

Daniel Kent: Not Just Tomorrow's Leaders: Then I took a risk. Taking the money that I had been saving for a car to pay for incorporating as a nonprofit, I founded Net Literacy with my friends. Ten years later, Net Literacy remains a youth-managed nonprofit where students comprise 50 percent of the board of directors, write all of the grants and conduct all of the volunteering. We donate $1.4 million in services annually. Net Literacy's mission includes increasing digital inclusion and digital literacy through five student-developed programs, ranging from teaching computer and Internet safety skills to students and their parents to refurbishing tens of thousands of computers that afforded computer access to over 170,000 individuals. Internet associations representing 270,000 Internet companies on six continents have endorsed our Digital Literacy "best practices" site. Working at Net Literacy, 3,500 student volunteers have shown that we are not just tomorrow's leaders -- we're today's leaders!

Teens Charting a Course for Good: Allowance for Good presents first annual Global Philanthropy Summit — Evanston news, photos and events — TribLocal.com

Teens Charting a Course for Good: Allowance for Good presents first annual Global Philanthropy Summit — Evanston news, photos and events — TribLocal.com: Evanston, IL – Summer is just around the corner! As you prepare your teens for their long summer break, don’t forget to pick up a handy GPS to make sure you are on the right track. At Evanston-based Allowance for Good (AfG), a registered 501(c)3 nonprofit organization working to educate and engage youth in global philanthropy, we are not taking about a Garmin or a TomTom: we are talking about our first annual Global Philanthropy Summit (GPS).

Your Schools: St Laurence pupils raise �4k over Lent - Your News - News - Birmingham Mail

Your Schools: St Laurence pupils raise �4k over Lent - Your News - News - Birmingham Mail: EVERY year at St Laurence Junior School, Northfield, we try to raise as much money as possible over Lent for many different causes.

Over the previous few years we have raised money for Malawi, Edwards Trust, Haiti earthquake, Acorns and many more.

This year we have collected money for children undergoing treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Class prompts art-full charity | The Red and Black

Class prompts art-full charity | The Red and Black: Class work led to charity work.

“Night of the Arts” was the brain-child of eight classmates working together on a group project for their event management class. The groups, led by an adviser, were free to pick their own charities, venues and events.

Nease student receives Rotary scholarship | StAugustine.com

Nease student receives Rotary scholarship | StAugustine.com: Abate was recognized for his commitment to and passion for volunteerism and philanthropy both on a local and international level. In the past three years, Abate volunteered building homes at a local Habitat for Humanity chapter in St. Augustine and teaching English and computer skills to youth in Ethiopia and India. He also served as a teacher’s assistant in a preschool in Cusco, Peru.

The Weekly Herald

The Weekly Herald: This time, Grace Bowen, 13, gets to go too.

The mother, daughter and members of their church, Westgate Chapel in Edmonds, are in West Liberty, Ky., helping with disaster relief efforts following the tornadoes that tore across the Midwest and Southern states in early March. Efforts include bringing school supplies to a makeshift classroom in the city.

Lincoln High group plans event to benefit Arc of Lincoln

Lincoln High group plans event to benefit Arc of Lincoln: Links With a Heart, a Lincoln High School philanthropy club, has hired a hypnotist for a Friday evening event to raise money for the Arc of Lincoln.

Michelle Daily – How my class raised $900 for Samaritan’s Purse - Classroom Champions

Michelle Daily – How my class raised $900 for Samaritan’s Purse - Classroom Champions: One of the great things about Classroom Champions is not only getting to know our own athlete mentor, but the wonderful ‘guest’ athletes who contribute to the monthly themes. Brock Kreitzburg competed with Steve Mesler on the US Bobsled Team for many years. He’s been working with an organization called Samaritan’s Purse and sent the students involved in the Classroom Champions Program a message about setting goals. He also talked about the work he was doing in Japan. (Watch Brock’s video.)

State Farm Youth Advisory Board

State Farm Youth Advisory Board: Thirty students, ages 17-20, from across the United States and Canada comprise the State Farm Youth Advisory Board. They are charged with helping State Farm design and implement a $5 million-a-year signature service-learning initiative to address issues important to State Farm and communities across the United States and Canada.

Mississauga Article: Students venture into philanthropy

Mississauga Article: Students venture into philanthropy: In the past five months, the group of high school students has grown to 23 team members from across Mississauga in grades 10 through 12 who convene regularly at Deloitte in the City Centre to run their Junior Achievement Company, aptly named Impact Inc.

Student philanthropists share experiences at forum - View - ReviewJournal.com

Student philanthropists share experiences at forum - View - ReviewJournal.com: Quiet, grown-ups. Kids are talking.

They have important things to say, too. Philanthropy, volunteerism and education are among the topics.

More Than Child's Play: Engaging Youth in Philanthropy

More Than Child's Play: Engaging Youth in Philanthropy: With the help of his dad and his friend Blake's dad — who happens to be NHL Hall of Famer Paul Coffey — the first Feel Like A Pro Day took place in June 2011 and raised $200,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society. This past November, that accomplishment won him the Outstanding Youth in Philanthropy Award from the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Greater Toronto Chapter. There are plans to expand to other parts of the country, develop a "tourney in a box" kit, and more actively recruit young female players.

Schools: Best $185 a charity could get | Concord Monitor

Schools: Best $185 a charity could get | Concord Monitor: Emmanuel Alisandro, 11; Bennett Davis, 12; and Caelan McCormack, 12, all from Manchester, were there representing themselves and 43 other boys from the Mayhew Program, who together donated $185 to the United Way's annual fund drive.

Philanthropy’s Child Prodigy - The Daily Beast

Philanthropy’s Child Prodigy - The Daily Beast: At 10 years old, Talia Leman already had the business acumen of a self-made billionaire. After being struck by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, she decided to help the storm’s victims by trick-or-treating for coins instead of candy during Halloween—but coins from one kid wouldn’t be enough. She realized that by harnessing the fundraising power of kids across the country, she’d raise more than she could on her own. At that moment, the basis for RandomKid was born. With the help of her parents, Leman mobilized a national network of concerned kids ultimately raising $10 million for hurricane relief almost overnight, putting them in the same league as some of the country’s biggest corporations.

Palo Alto Online : Gunn program backs student 'social entrepreneurs'

Palo Alto Online : Gunn program backs student 'social entrepreneurs': Gunn High School sophomore Arjun Parikh just got his start-up funded -- an initiative that combines his love of soccer with an impulse to give.

Parikh is one of eight student grant recipients of Gunn@Your Service, a kind of parent booster club for community service that awards grants to "social entrepreneurs."

Students team up with nonprofit to feed homeless | Shreveporttimes | shreveporttimes.com

Students team up with nonprofit to feed homeless | Shreveporttimes | shreveporttimes.com: Students from seven area high schools came together Saturday to feed the homeless and raise awareness of local efforts to assist the needy during The Big Event at the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission.

Homeless clients of the rescue mission and other local agencies received an al fresco lunch of enchiladas and other El Chico favorites from rows of tables on McNeil Street in front of the mission.

Violin prodigy, Jourdan Urbach, honored for charity work - morningjournal.com

Violin prodigy, Jourdan Urbach, honored for charity work - morningjournal.com: ourdan Urbach was honored for his achievement yesterday with one of the nation’s highest public service awards — the Jefferson Awards.

The 20-year-old resident of the Long Island community of Roslyn founded Concerts for a Cure when he was only 7 years old. Since then, he has raised $5.1 million to fight children’s neurological diseases and fund research.

MEHS students mix business with philanthropy | KCAW

MEHS students mix business with philanthropy | KCAW: While this all sounds fairly typical for a high school business class, it is actually something quite innovative. The Mt. Edgecumbe students developed their business plan with the goal of helping Sitka’s homeless population.

Teens for Jeans collects 1 MILLION PAIRS | Do Something

Teens for Jeans collects 1 MILLION PAIRS | Do Something: Teens helped out in record numbers this year in the Teens for Jeans campaign. We've collected 1,020,041 pairs of jeans, which will go to homeless shelters nationwide.

Creating a philanthropic generation

Creating a philanthropic generation: We are so proud to be training the next generation of Bay Area philanthropists,” says SV2 Executive Director Lindsay Austin Louie. “It’s amazing to see how the teens mature and become engrossed in social issues over the course of only 21 hours of meetings.”

Giving spirit blossoms

Giving spirit blossoms: For most youngsters, charitable giving is not high on their list of priorities. However, sisters Emily and Megan Stokke don't fit into the category of "most youngsters."

Megan, for example, requested a donation on her behalf to the World Wildlife Fund for her eighth birthday, a rarity at that age.

"I love animals, and I don't want them to die," she explains of her request.

Now, these girls are on a mission to raise $1,000 to give to the Rotary Foundation. The foundation is a body within Rotary International that spearheads international projects dealing with health, education and the alleviation of poverty.

Two Sides of the Jewish Philanthropy Coin | eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish Philanthropy Resource

Two Sides of the Jewish Philanthropy Coin | eJewish Philanthropy: Your Jewish Philanthropy Resource: Exploring what it means to give Jewishly is a core component of Rose Youth Foundation. Each year, 23 teenaged participants in the program are charged with the responsibility of granting $60,000 to help solve community problems they identify in Greater Denver and Boulder. While the grantmaking process and funding decisions are entirely in the hands of the teens, there are a couple of rules.

First, they must grant all of the money. Second, their grantmaking must support nonprofits serving Greater Denver and Boulder. Finally, they have to make grants that are primarily Jewish in nature – and in order to do so, the 16-, 17-, and 18-year old participants must grapple with the question, “What is Jewish philanthropy?”

United Way to host a murder mystery dinner

United Way to host a murder mystery dinner: By combining the talents of students within the theatre department with the logistical planning of the United Way Student Foundation participants, a new legacy fundraiser was born.

Fairfield Club Kids Add Up Numbers for Charity

Fairfield Club Kids Add Up Numbers for Charity: NORWALK, Conn. – Two Norwalk teenagers who volunteer in Fairfield recently used their love of math to support educational programs for children.

Sheetal Akole, 16, and Khushwant Dhaliwal, 15, both students at St. Luke's School in New Canaan, spend Saturday afternoons at the Fairfield Math Club coaching fifth- through eighth-graders for national level math contests. They accept donations for the work and then choose a charity the money should go to.

Stowsentry.com - Student invites CEO, founder for lunch, class at Riverview School

Stowsentry.com - Student invites CEO, founder for lunch, class at Riverview School: Munroe Falls -- Thanks to Megan Turner, 9, and her special guest Christopher Milo, lunch and music class were much more fun than usual for her third-grade friends at Riverview Elementary School, Feb. 21.

Megan's guest, Milo, is the founder and CEO of Hugs-N-Bugs, a nonprofit that helps children going through cancer and their families to combat the disease with music and family support.