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Shaping Youth Interviews Girl Mogul Founder Andrea Stein

November 12, 2008 by Amy Jussel 20 Comments

All Things Girl Week continues on Shaping Youth with some incredible resources and inspirations coming your way! From 2,300 girls trained to be social change agents in 6 metro areas in 26 days via Carrie Ellett’s crew at Girls For A Change to a firstperson overseas experience at the YWCA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia shared by International Fellows Program college recipient … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: A Gentlemans C, adventures, all things girl shaping youth, Amy-Jussel, Andrea Stein, angry professor, anti-princess, anti-tiara, Danica McKellar, Daughters, digital divas, education, entrepreneurs, feminism, Feministing, femme, girl geek, Girl Mogul, girl power, GirlMogul, girls, Kids, Kiss My Math, math, Math Doesn't Suck, positive tees, Science, She's geeky, STEM, technology, the F word, Thingamababy

Women and the Military: MyVetwork Launches Today!

November 11, 2008 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

Anyone who has been involved with the military community recognizes ‘active duty’ soldiers are only the most visible folks who serve... Kids, military moms and sisters of all sorts are included in our annual Veteran’s Day post honoring “all things girl” week on Shaping Youth, so I'm proud to announce the premiere of a brand new community just … [Read more...]

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Treat Suneet By Voting for Dream Village TODAY At IdeaBlob!

October 31, 2008 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Crowdsourcing has become quite the ‘thang’ with ideas percolating all over the globe on how to create healthier worldviews for kids online, offline, and bridging both worlds in between! (The much anticipated Elf Island opens Tuesday in beta testing, woohoo! It's an AMAZING online to offline bridge for changemaking in the childrens' media arena, and I've been mum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: affect change, Amy-Jussel, books with meaning, changebloggers, crowdsourcing, Digital Media Learning, Dizzywood, Dream Village, Elf-Island, Environment, gaming for good, Global Water, Hastac, Ideablob, ideas, Izzy-Neis, Kids, living books, Liz Kronenberg, MacArthur-Foundation, Michael-Carter, Play Pumps, Scott Arpajian, social conciousness, social issue games, Social Symmetry, Suneet Bahtt, Teen-Second-Life, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, water shortage, Zookazoo

Parents for Ethical Marketing: The Role In Shaping Youth

October 24, 2008 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

The name alone is a winner. “Parents For Ethical Marketing.” It’s universal, inclusive, and makes my name generation synapses smile (metaphorically, grammarians; hold the e-mails). When PEM founder Lisa Ray (formerly of the incisive, razor-sharp blog, Two Knives) approached me about her desire to start an organization to encourage corporate ethics in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, applied science, Change.org, corporate responsibility, CSR, ethics, Hippocratic oath, Lisa Ray, media-literacy, nonprofit fundraising, Parents for Ethical Marketing, PEM, Robyn-Silverman, Sarah Sobieraj, Tufts University, youth empowerment

Farmers Markets Go Digital: Find Healthy Food Near YOU!

October 20, 2008 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Tonight Shaping Youth proudly hosts filmmaker Amy Kalafa of Two Angry Moms at Parents Place joining Farmers Market pals like Sarah Nelson of Fresh Approach who is stellar at getting the word out regionally to all the farmer's market folks who in turn inform us "what's in season" with handy charts like this one...But we also wanted to provide a searchable database for our … [Read more...]

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