Sept. 25, 2009 Never quite thought homelessness would end up a ‘branding opportunity’ but alas, when Virgin Mobile lobbied Congress to declare November Youth Homeless Awareness month to devote time, … [Read more...]
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A Homeless American Girl Doll: Really, AG? REALLY?
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image Tagged With: $95 doll, AG, All Things Girl, American Girl, Amy-Jussel, brandwashing, Carissa Phelps, cause marketing, children, CSR, dolls, downturn, economy, girls, Gwen, homeless, homeless doll, Lyn Mikel-Brown, Mattel, NAEH, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, ReGeneration, Sharon Lamb, shelters, Stand Up for Kids, stress, Virgin Mobile, Virgin Unite, youth, Youth homeless awareness, Youth Noise
One Week Countdown! Vote For Your Favorite Ashoka Youth Venture!

What better way to kick off the New Year than a quick click to put fresh faces of change to work on the world’s big issues? Ashoka’s Youth Venture, a global network of over 2,000 … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: $10, 000, 13-18, @15, @15 Fund, Amy-Jussel, Ashoka, Ashoka Youth Ventures, Ashoka's Changemakers, Best Buy, Best Buy@15 Challenge, Best Buy@15 Challenge with Youth Venture, cause marketing, children, corporate profiteering, corporate social responsibility, corporate sponsorship, crowdsourcing, CSR, Dream it do it, Facebook, feed a need, finalists, funding, GenV, Girls helping girls, halo effect, have fun do good, HopeLab, Ideablob, incentives, Just Means, Kids, make a difference, Media, mentoring, MySpace Impact, Payjr, portal, positive change, Random Kid, Ruckus Nation, RWJF, slideshare, social-media, Street Attack, Teen-Second-Life, teens, UGC, Viral Mesh, Virgin Mobile, Virtual-Worlds, vote, WAP, We Media, youth, Youth homeless awareness, Youth Venture, Zander Turtle Talks