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This cooperative agreement from the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs will fund workshops for international high school students on two topics: English language teaching and the use of social media and other technologies to promote civil society. See full opportunity (PDF, 262KB).
When Dennis Lundberg, who helps direct Yellow Brick Road Street Outreach in Portland, OR, started a blog for his program, he had one simple goal: connect with the increasingly online-savvy homeless youth population in his city. Five years later, the blog has grown to include everything from photos of nightly outreach efforts, links to relevant research and new job opportunities for youth.
A trio of free toolkits from the National Service-Learning Clearinghouse can help youth workers jump-start – and make the most of – their community-service-learning programs:
Teens in dating relationships are being controlled, abused and threatened via technology at alarming rates.
Cell phones, social networking websites and other new forms of media are indispensable communication tools for many young people. Recent research delves into how young people use digital devices, and the implications these trends have for adolescent health.   (Publications discussed here do not necessarily reflect the views of NCFY, FYSB or the Administration for Children and Families.)...
Staff members had no clue what to expect when the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina launched its BrdsNBz project, which invites youth to ask questions about sexual health via anonymous text messages, in February of last year. Because more than three-quarters of U.S.
As the manager of computer training labs for the homeless, Jim Lynch used to make every effort to score free technology. Whenever he needed new hardware or software, he – like many other nonprofit managers – would tell himself, “I need to get this donated.”
Idealware has hundreds of articles about how to choose software, including “Selecting Software on a Shoestring,” “The True Costs of Free and Low-Cost Software,” and "A Few Good Tools:  Low Cost Constituent Databases.”
Local affiliates of Big Brothers Big Sisters, or BBBS, may have the benefit of a national organization to provide them with resources, help them lobby and grant them some exposure, but each individual agency is responsible for its own budget. Jenna Harkins, vice president of programs for the San Antonio chapter, says that her office has the same financial pressures as any other community-based...
In this issue of The Exchange, we take a look at how family- and youth-serving organizations use technology in working with young people and in managing their staff and operations.
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