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We’ve scoured the web and our networks for resources to inspire and jumpstart a new wave of changemakers. Categories include organizations, publications, websites and other engaging tools designed to further your impact and effectiveness. If you don’t see what you need or you have an idea for something to add, !

Featured Organizations

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  • Case Foundation
    Case Foundation
    The Case Foundation invests in people and ideas that can change the world.
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  • Causecast.com
    Causecast
    Causecast provides the social technology platform and services required to connect nonprofits and businesses.
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  • Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
    Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy
    EPIP develops extraordinary new leaders who are working to enhance organized philanthropy and its impact on communities.
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  • Young Invincibles
    Young Invincibles
    We know that our generation will define the future we share as a nation. These are difficult times. But this is also our time.
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  • Microsoft YouthSpark
    Microsoft YouthSpark
    Microsoft YouthSpark is a company wide initiative designed to create opportunities for hundreds of millions of youth around the world.
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  • DoSomething.org: Powering Offline Action
    DoSomething.org
    Do Something harnesses the power and energy of teens to act on causes that matter to them.
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  • YSA: Engage and Educate
    Youth Service America
    YSA engages and educates youth to change the world.
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  • Idealist.org
    Idealist.org
    Idealist connects people, organizations, and resources to help build a world where all people can live free and dignified lives.
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  • Advocates for Youth
    Advocates for Youth
    Advocates for Youth envisions a society that views sexuality as normal and healthy and treats young people as a valuable resource.
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  • MTV Act
    MTV Act Blog
    Where fist-pumping and lending a helping hand collide.
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  • Mobilize.org
    Mobilize.org
    Mobilize.org believes that together, Millennials can create long-term, sustainable and community based solutions.
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Publications

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  • Citizen-Centered Solutions: Lessons from Make It Your Own Awards
    Citizen-Centered Solutions: Make It Your Own Awards
    In 2007, the Case Foundation launched its first public grants program, the Make It Your Own Awards (MIYO).
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  • Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives
    Hyperconnected Lives
    Pew Internet says: Millennials will benefit and suffer due to their hyperconnected lives
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  • Pew: Millennials
    Millennials: A Portrait of Generation Next
    The values, attitudes, and experiences of America's next generation: The Millennials.
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  • Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement
    Citizens at the Center: New Approach to Civic Engagement
    Specific recommendations for getting people from all walks of life to discuss what matters most to them.
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  • Deloitte Millennial Survey 2011
    Deloitte Millennial Survey 2011
    Millennials represent the future of many aspects of society - culture, the economy, politics...and business.
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  • Managing the Millennials: Discover the Core Competencies for Managing Today's Workforce
    Managing the Millennials
    Provides managers of all ages with specific recommendations and tools for engaging this burgeoning demographic-some 78 million strong.
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  • The Millennial Pendulum: A New Generation of Voters and the Prospects for a Political Realignment
    The Millennial Pendulum
    Millennials have a more progressive identity than did previous generations at their age and are likely to move the country leftward on issues.
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  • Millennial Momentum
    Millennial Momentum
    How are Millennials transforming elements of American culture?
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  • Teens Speak Up: A National Survey on Civic Engagement and Citizenship
    Teens Speak Up Survey
    If thousands of teens spoke up on the issues they cared most about, would you listen? We would, and we will!
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  • Millennial Makeover
    Millennial Makeover
    Explore how technology and a new generation of Millennial voters helped change the course of history.
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  • The Millennial Impact Report 2012
    The Millennial Impact Report 2012
    Published by Achieve, the 2012 Millennial Impact Report focuses on millennials and their preferences to connect, get involved, and give.
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Websites

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  • Beth's Blog
    Beth's Blog
    How networked nonprofits are using social media to power change
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  • City Year Tumblelog
    City Year Tumblelog
    Thoughts, quotes, images, videos and inspirational awesomeness from people that are changing the world.
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  • NTEN Blog
    NTEN Blog
    Creating a world where all nonprofit organizations use technology skillfully and confidently to meet community needs and fulfill their missions
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  • Latest from Alliance
    Latest from Alliance
    A global philanthropy blog with regular bloggers from all around the world.
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  • Seth Godin's Blog
    Seth Godin's Blog
    He writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything.
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  • Allison Jones
    Allison Jones
    How young people can affect social change wherever they are, regardless of position in the nonprofit sector.
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  • Achieve Guidance Blog
    Achieve Guidance Blog
    A blog from Achieve with useful resources for taking on fundraising - and making it work.
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  • The Millennials Think Tank
    The Millennials Think Tank
    A platform to present the research of Generation Y to key thinkers, policy makers and leaders.
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  • Millennial Leaders
    Nonprofit Millennial Blogger Alliance
    Bringing important issues about Generation Y and the nonprofit sector to the forefront.
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  • IndyAdvocate
    IndyAdvocate
    Blog posts on subjects including the use of social media in advocacy, the obstacles facing those who need better access to care, and current events!
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  • Rosetta Thurman
    Rosetta Thurman
    Empowering a new generation of leaders.
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More Good Stuff

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  • StartUp America Partnership
    StartUp America Partnership
    The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: young companies that grow create jobs.
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  • Spark Action
    Spark Action
    SparkAction is an online journalism and advocacy center by and for the child and youth field.
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  • Change.org
    Change.org
    Building momentum for social change globally means empowering citizen activists locally.
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  • MTV Act
    MTV Act
    MTV Act is where fist-pumping and lending a helping hand collide.
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  • The Sapling Foundation- TED
    The Sapling Foundation- TED
    Ideas Worth Spreading
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  • Kiva
    Kiva
    We envision a world where all people - even in the most remote areas of the globe - hold the power to create opportunity for themselves and others.
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  • National Geographic Society
    National Geographic Society
    Inspiring people to care about the planet since 1888
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  • LIFT
    LIFT
    LIFT’s mission is to combat poverty and expand opportunity for all people in the United States.
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  • First Book
    First Book
    First Book provides access to new books for children in need.
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  • Care2
    Care2 is a trusted social action network that empowers millions of people to lead a healthy and sustainable lifestyle.
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  • VolunteerMatch
    VolunteerMatch
    VolunteerMatch strengthens communities by making it easier for good people and good causes to connect.
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