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Over the Edge
While out casting our net to find fearless changemakers and organizations, a good friend of mine told me about her organization’s effort to take the term "be fearless" quite literally by sending Miami residents rapelling over the edge. This weekend...
If thousands of teens spoke up on the issues they cared most about, would you listen? We would, and we will!  In late 2011, the Case Foundation was proud to join with Nickelodeon to support Boys & Girls Clubs of America’s new survey for...
He goes to www.mint.com, a website that tracks the money he is spending and helps him find ways to save. He does a Google product search to run price comparisons on products he’s thinking of buying. He checks www.ebates.com, which gives cash back...
Our Time, — a Washington nonprofit formed in March to drive civic engagement and economic empowerment among Americans under 30 — is launching Buy Young with a daylong event at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Capitol Hill and White House.
In July, I blogged about the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition in partnership with Ashoka and its TEDxYSE follow-up conference. The competition is now closed and its winners were just announced last Monday. These winners, aged 17 to...

Press Release

Boys & Girls Clubs of America Survey Conducted in Partnership with the Case Foundation and Nickelodeon Asked Teens About Civic Engagement, Community Service, and Education ATLANTA, GA May 23, 2012 – A new survey of 10,000 teens shows youth...

Spotlight Archive

A group of Americans sought dialogue in nine countries, hoping to improve Western-Islamic relations. What do ordinary people in the Muslim world think about relations with the West? Where do they stand in the struggle within Islam? Who are the role...
Imagine: Hundreds of thousands of religiously diverse young people, from elementary school kids to university graduate students, in big cities and small towns, coming together across the country and the world to serve their communities. The reality...