June 6, 2009 Calling all ‘young people who rock’ between the ages of 14-17...this is the final week to START to tell your tales in ‘Girls Helping Girls’ style (by June 15 to begin submissions, June 30 to finish them) to vy for the Youth Service America Gladys Coccia Award. Who is Gladys Marinelli Coccia? What’s her story? Let’s just say anyone who became a business woman at … [Read more...]
Teen Girl Moguls & Social Entrepreneurs: What’s Your Story?
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Ashoka Youth Venture, Change.org, common good, DigiGirlz, female, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls helping girls, Girls Lead Now, Gladys Coccia Award, Gladys Marinelli Coccia, GMS, green, hardy girls, healthy women, innovators, leaders, Project Global Cooling, Sejal Hathi, Sisters 4 Peace, Social entrepreneurs, teen change agents, teens, youth service america, YSA, YWCA
Project Green Prom Update: Summer Rayne & Teens Turning Green
May 14, 2009 I feel like I dropped the ‘carbon offset’ ball with my trek to WildCare on Mother’s Day... I stopped by to see the Project Green Prom boutique and see how their ‘how to green your prom’ initiative was doing, and forgot to bring the gowns we’ve collected so far at the Greenv Sustainable Center! Never fear, EcoMom Alliance is here. Kirsten Bollen (eco-mom gal … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: activism, Burt's Bees, cause marketing, dirty thirty, Dizzywood, dvgreen, EcoMom Alliance, ecorazzi, Environment, fundraising, global citizens, Green Graduations, Green-Celebrations, GreenV, nonprofit entrepreneurs, organics, PBTeen, PGP, Planet Green, Project Green Prom, Sejal Hathi, Summer Rayne, teens, Teens Turning Green, TTG Collection, Whole Foods Market, Young-People-Who-Rock
Seven Sensational Blogs About Girls (All Things Girl Pt.2)
I’ve learned something about myself from running this All Things Girl series…As much as I love it, I miss being ‘in the moment’ sharing life in ‘real time’---I’m finding it really hard to stay ‘in theme’ when events are swirling around me with exciting new media to share! Whether it’s accompanying Anand and my … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: adolescence, Africa, All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, APA, arts, Batsiranai Project, Bella Sara, bottlecap art, children, Claire-Mysko, Daughters, Doug Engelbart, Eco-Childs-Play, Eileen Clegg, Empowering girls, GAC, Gender, Girl blogs, Girl Child, girl culture, Girl Media, Girl Mogul, girls, Girls for a Change, Girls helping girls, Girls Horse Club, girls sports, Growing Up Girl, infomania, internet, Media X, misogyny, MIT Media Lab, MOW, New Moon, NextNow, On-Teens-Today, One World Childrens Fund, OWCF, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, Program for the Future, project girl, readergirlz, Respect Rx, screaming bloody murder, Sejal Hathi, seven sisters, smart girls, So Sioux Me, Tapestries-of-Hope, target women, Teen Ink, teen voices, tweens, vanessa van petten, Visual Insight, you're grounded, Young-People-Who-Rock, zest books, Zimbabwe