socially responsible Archives - Shaping Youth

Ready For Positive Media? Help HopeMob.org Get Kickstarted!

February 16, 2012 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Update: Feb 17, 2012 Boom! And that's how it's done. Congrats HopeMob.Congrats world. Feb 16, 2012 Tired of skanky media with lousy messages and negative role models? Prefer to find fabulously … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Believe, Blame Drew's Cancer, change agents, Changemakers, CNN Heroes, crowdsourcing, digital activism, Do Good, GameChangers, Gen Z, Haiti tents, Hope Mob, HopeMob, Humane Education, Inspiring Media, Kickstarter, marketing hope, microfunding, mindfulness, mobile-social, MTV Act, positive media influence, role models, service learning, Shaun King, social change, social-media, socially responsible, Tapestries-of-Hope, when generous strangers unite, wisdom of crowds, youth activism

Earth Day: 40 Eco Links Worth Recycling to Friends

April 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 20, 2020 Update: (How often does that happen 20-2020?) 4-21-2020: Amidst the "Contagion" concerns of COVID-19, take a moment to imagine what POSITIVE CONTAGION taking action on climate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #EarthDay2016, altruism, apps, avatar, behavior, blue is the new green, Blue Planet, cause marketing, CauseWorld, change agents, climate change, dirty thirty, Discover the forest, Disneynature, Earth Day, eco, eco heroes, eco labels, eco literacy, eco-friendly, ecology, Energy Star, Envirolution, Environment, Forest Ethics, Fun theory, Get 'Em Outside, green games, Green my Parents, green toys, Green TV, Green-Teens, greenwashing, habitat, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child Healthy World, how to turn people green, influence, Kids, marketing hope, media-literacy, mindfulness, NCLI, Ocean Conservancy, oceanized, Oceans, One world, philanthropy, planet stewards, Plastiki, reach and teach, recycling, safe cosmetics, Save Our Seas, save the planet, Sea Turtles, service learning, social gaming, socially responsible, Sustainability, The Lorax, unplugged, youth

Socially Responsible Picture Books: Dream Village Part 2

March 23, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Mar. 23, 2010 Today I was honored to be the guest speaker at SFSU Professor Betsy Blosser’s Media & Social Change class, and brought a gazillion examples of cool work being done in the digital … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 4YG, Africa, Amy-Jussel, AOC3, Ashoka Youth Ventures, Beth-Kanter, books, Build A Bear, business plan, cambodian orphans, children's books, DEMO, Demo 2009 winner, digital learning, Do Something, Dream Village, eco moms, education, edutainment, entrepreneur, Four Years Go, Ideablob, ideation, kidlit, literature, Media and social change, NextNow Collaboratory, philanthropy, picture books, PlayPumps International, Saved by the Well, seeding, social enterprise, socially responsible, solutions, startups, Suneet Bahtt, Suneet Bhatt, Sustainability, The Age of Conversation, thought leaders, Variety the Children's Charity, VC funding, World's Greatest Pillowfight, youth voices

Reach and Teach Kids in Fun, Fresh Ways: Ten Under $10

December 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Dec. 20, 2009 In my last post I went for ‘free media finds that are priceless year-round,’ today I’ll nudge it up a notch to prove you can gift meaning and mindfulness without spending a fortune (not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: anti-princess, budget, butterfly origami, cartoon novels, children, Comics, edu tech, Free the Children, frugal, gifts, girls are not chicks, graphic novels, green, It Takes A Child, Kids, Kids Are Heroes, Liam O'Donnell, Manga, manners, Me to We, meaningful media, Media Meltdown, media-literacy, nonviolence, organic, parenting, reach and teach, RezEd, self-esteem, socially responsible, stocking stuffers, teachers, teens, Truce, Truce Toy Action Guide, tweens, under $10

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