AT&T;’s $1 million contribution to the Alliance to fund the re-granting initiative has enabled them to provide young people nationwide with the opportunity to develop and implement their own ideas for increasing the nation’s graduation rate. More than just building awareness, there was a call to action for young people to propose solutions to the dropout crisis with two types of My Idea grants. The overarching goal was to mobilize high school age youth to reflect on their communities and the dropout crisis and then propose and lead projects that address a contributing factor. This exciting opportunity challenged young people to come up with their own ideas, carry them out, and make a meaningful contribution to ongoing local efforts to prepare all young people for college, work and life. The youth-led action encouraged great changes locally but also provided real life examples and inspiration to the national movement.

Change.org is a rapidly expanding, profitable social venture growing by hundreds of thousands of members a month and empowering people across the globe to win social action campaigns on a wide range of issues such as human rights, global poverty, and environmental protection. Our current partners include hundreds of the world’s largest nonprofits, including Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Human Rights Campaign, and the United Nations Foundation.

The Corporation has designed posters, videos and fact sheets to help promote the MLK Day of Service. Most of the materials are free, and orders ship within one to three business days.

This guide outlines all you need to plan, prepare, mobilize for and execute a project to revitalize your community or an event to celebrate the day. This is your opportunity to make the dream come true.

Mentoring children of prisoners is a key component of Big Brothers Big Sisters’ goal to reach more kids, especially those who may face significant risk factors.

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Nonprofit Online News is one of the world's most respected sources of news, information, and opinion for the online nonprofit community. It provides a stream of tightly edited, well annotated news and resources related to emerging issues in the nonprofit world, with a particular emphasis on communication and new technology.

Joe Waters talking about how Boston Medical Center uses social media to add value for their corporate sponsors.

Boot Camp offers attendees a chance to share tools, tactics and resources for community building, engage with like-minded people, demonstrate ways to collaborate, and be inspired by success stories from local and national leaders, grassroots activists and neighborhood volunteers. By helping form new pathways for engaging together, participants are encouraged to take greater responsibility for where they live, work, and play. Boot Camp is one of the most widely anticipated, well-attended programs on the San Francisco Bay Area community calendar. More than 12,000 Boot Campers have participated since 2004. Online, Boot Camp offers year-round learning and connections through event session podcasts, with 125,000 downloads to date.

The largest health-focused, national AmeriCorps program that promotes health care for America’s underserved, while developing tomorrow’s health care workforce.

The Idealist Guide to Nonprofit Careers for First-time Job Seekers. This book is a free resource for emerging professionals pursuing their first position in the nonprofit sector.

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