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100cameras
100cameras identifies children living in unjust conditions and gives them cameras to document their lives. 100% of the money from the children’s purchased prints is given back to their community to meet physical needs and empower sustainable growth.
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826 National
826 National is a nonprofit tutoring, writing, and publishing organization with locations in seven cities across the country. Its goal is to assist students ages six to eighteen with their writing skills, and to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. 826 National's work is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
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Aid for Africa
Aid for Africa works with its partners on the ground in Africa to find solutions to the education, health, development, and wildlife challenges facing the region. Whether we are distributing books to school children, introducing medical strategies to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS, supporting small businesses for women, or finding new approaches to protect endangered elephants and lions, Aid for Africa is working to build a better future for Africa’s children, families, and communities.
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Andrew J. Zabierek Foundation
The Andrew J. Zabierek Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to supporting veterans from Massachusetts.
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Art for Change
Art for Change (AfC) is a 501(c)3 organization that encourages the advancement of progressive social change by using art as a catalyst for disseminating information. We provide space to discuss and explore that information, stimulating individual and collective reflection, which leads to action and change.
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Best Friends Books Foundation
The mission of Best Friends Books Foundation is to present new books to children with the help and guidance of agencies and organizations creating support, resources and opportunities for children.
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Boys' Club of New York
Rooted in a tradition and history of community service, outreach, and philanthropy to some of New York City’s most socially and economically troubled neighborhoods, The Boys' Club of New York strives to sustain an environment that nurtures individual talent, strengthens family, and promotes strong citizenship while fostering a passion for learning. We encourage our participants to seek the highest standards of scholarship, moral development, and physical achievement. Working closely with our membership and their families, our professional staff encourages the emotional, social, physical, educational, and vocational growth of the agency’s entire membership and extended family.
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Breakthrough New York
Breakthrough New York provides academic and support services to college-bound, high-potential middle and high school students of low-income backgrounds.
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Career Gear
Career Gear is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization providing career counseling, interview appropriate clothing, and follow-up job support to men actively seeking employment. Career Gear’s philosophy is simple but powerful: successful employment is a catalyst towards men emerging as better fathers and leaders within their communities.
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Center for Arts Education (CAE)
The Center for Arts Education is committed to stimulating and sustaining quality arts education as an essential part of every child’s K-12 education in the New York City public schools.
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Change for Kids
Change for Kids partners with New York City public schools to empower underprivileged children by providing them with a broad range of innovative literacy, arts, and music programs.
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Children’s Museum of Manhattan
The mission of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (CMOM)—a leading provider of educational experiences for families since 1973—is to inspire children and their families to learn about themselves and the culturally diverse world in which they live, through a unique environment of interactive exhibitions and programs.
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Circle of Women
Circle of Women's mission is to equip girls with self-reliance, knowledge, and increased capacities to both enhance their own lives and to contribute productively to their societies. Circle of Women believes this is the best way to affect positive, global change. Their philosophy is that one school will affect one community. One community will make a world of change.
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City Academy of St. Louis
City Academy, a private elementary school in St. Louis, MO, serves children whose educational opportunities would otherwise be limited due to family income and/or where they live.
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CitySquash
CitySquash's mission is to enable motivated and talented youth from at-risk backgrounds to fulfill their academic, athletic and personal potential.
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CLASP International: Connective Link Among Special Needs Programs
CLASP International is a 501c3 organization that allows certified speech-language pathologists and other rehabilitation professionals to go into international countries where specialized care for children and adults with special needs is not practiced and provide graduate level training to the natives of that country. The mission is to provide self-sustaining programming that allows each country to pass along training to future professionals working with special needs populations. Currently, CLASP is inserting programming at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka, Zambia in Africa.
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Community VOICES (Voices of Involved Citizens Encouraging Safety)
Community VOICES provides advocacy, resources and educational information to community groups and individuals to increase public awareness regarding sexual assault, child sexual assault, Internet predators, Internet safety and missing children.
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Delaware College of Art and Design
Delaware College of Art and Design was founded through a creative partnership between Pratt Institute and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. DCAD’s mission is to educate talented and committed students to become art makers, idea generators, problem solvers, and visual communicators who can redefine the way we perceive and experience the world around us. It also serves as a visible stakeholder, cultural anchor, and catalyst for the revitalization of downtown Wilmington, Delaware.
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Dignitas Project
The mission of Dignitas Project is to empower individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world. Drawing upon the talents of indigenous leaders and resources of its partners, Dignitas Project seeks to improve education and expand opportunities for the next generation by: enhancing learning and leadership opportunities for children and youth; building technical and infrastructural capacity in community-based schools; implementing sustainable projects to address health, economic, and education needs; and ensuring that community voices are integrated into policy decisions.
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DonorsChoose.org
DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on the website, ranging from pencils, to violins, to microscope slides. Then, donors choose which requests to fund, and hear back from the classrooms they help. The goal is a nation where students in every community have the resources they need to learn.
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East Harlem School at Exodus House
The East Harlem School educates middle school students (grades 5-8) from East Harlem who wish to rise to their academic potential. The East Harlem School values teaching children who exhibit a desire to learn, and an eagerness to embrace new challenges. The East Harlem School recruits children from families with low income and helps these students develop academic excellence, moral integrity, courtesy, and an unshakeable commitment to their future and the fate of their community.
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Easter Seals Houston
Easter Seals Houston's mission is to provide exceptional services to ensure all people with disabilities or special needs and their families have equal opportunities to live, learn, work and play in their communities.
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Eckerd Youth Alternatives
As an organization that has already made an impact on the lives of nearly 100,000 boys and girls, Eckerd Youth Alternatives (EYA) is one of the nation's leading providers of services for at-risk youth and their families through Outdoor Therapeutic Programs; Alternative Day Schools; Community-Based Support Programs; Early Intervention and Prevention Services; Lead Agency Services for Child Welfare; and Residential Therapeutic Programs. Founded by Jack and Ruth Eckerd, today EYA operates 38 distinct and diverse programs in nine states.
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First Book
First Book is an award-winning nonprofit providing new books to children in need addressing one of the most important factors affecting literacy – access to books.
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Foster Angels of Central Texas Foundation
Foster Angels of Central Texas is a nonprofit public foundation that helps improve the lives of foster children of all ages. Its mission is to improve the lives of children in foster care-ensuring that each child has his or her basic needs met, and to provide life-enriching and life-enhancing experiences whenever possible.
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Free Arts NYC
Free Arts NYC provides under-served children with a unique combination of educational arts and mentoring programs to help them foster the self-confidence and resiliency needed to realize their fullest potential.
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Friends of the National Zoo
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo was established more than 100 years ago and is one of the most beloved cultural institutions in the Washington, D.C. community and the nation. The National Zoo welcomes more than 2 million visitors a year to see up close wild animals from around the world. It inspires people to learn through interactive exhibits and award-winning education programs, and from its research by more than three hundred internationally-renowned scientists working worldwide to save endangered species.
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Givology
Givology is an Internet online giving marketplace that empowers individual donors to connect with students and communities in need of education support. By leveraging the Internet to support education grants and projects, Givology creates a global community of people connected through their belief in the power of education.
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Harlem Academy
Harlem Academy is an independent school that offers merit-based, need-blind admissions. Working in partnership with families, its goal is to prepare each student to enter and thrive at a top secondary school, while setting a course for life-long learning and contribution to our world.
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I Have A Dream Foundation
The "I Have A Dream" Foundation empowers children in low-income communities to achieve higher education by providing them with guaranteed tuition support and equipping them with the skills, knowledge, and habits they need to gain entry to higher education and succeed in college and beyond.
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I.D.E.A.S. (Interactive Drama for Education and Awareness in the Schools)
IDEAS' mission is to provide direct interactive drama activities to young people with disabilities and other disadvantages, using drama as a teaching and learning tool, for personal development, social awareness and equal educational access to dramatic arts.
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Jenny's Light
Jenny's Light is a national non-profit organization dedicated to improving and saving lives by raising awareness of perinatal mood disorders, especially postpartum depression.
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Kids Change the World
Since its founding in 2007, Kids Change the World has grown to be the world's leading youth-led organization dedicated to the vision of a global community of young leaders, achievers, and doers creating a better world for youth by engaging kids in service to provide basic keys to success to other youth around the world.
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Kids In Need Foundation
The mission of the Kids In Need Foundation is to ensure that every child is prepared to learn and succeed by providing free school supplies nationally to students most in need.
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KIPP:STAR College Prep Charter School
KIPP:STAR College Prep Charter School is a high-performing middle school located in Harlem, New York. STAR is part of the KIPP:NYC, a non-profit network of free, public charter schools that prepare students for success in college and life. KIPP NYC serves more than 1,700 students and 750 alumni; 83% come from low-income families, 97% are African American or Latino and all are selected by lottery. KIPP:STAR prepares students for college and life with 88% of our students going to college (more than twice the national average for low income students).
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KPS4Parents, Inc.
KPS4Parents works diligently to ensure that all eligible children, regardless of disability, receive the Free and Appropriate Public Education (“FAPE”) to which they are entitled under federal special education and civil rights laws and that their parents are fully involved members of their children’s Individualized Education Plan (“IEP”) teams or 504 Plan teams. Parents are their children’s best advocates, but parents generally lack the knowledge of how the special education system was designed to work.
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Ladybug Project Inc.
The Ladybug Project connects communities around the world to advance education and healthcare in the African countries of Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, and Madagascar.
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Leake & Watts
From their roots caring for orphaned children in the 1830s, Leake & Watts continues to positively impact the lives of more than 3,000 children, adults and families in the greater New York area. Leake & Watts is a not-for-profit agency committed to addressing a myriad of challenges that confront individuals and families dealing with poverty, disabilities, and a lack of access to education and basic services. Their comprehensive and diverse services include foster care, family stabilization, child care and Head Start, special education programs for children with emotional and/or learning disabilities, residential, day, and recreation services to individuals with developmental disabilities, and residential treatment services and group homes for youth who have experienced trauma.
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Lincoln Center Theater's Open Stages Education Program
Lincoln Center Theater's Open Stages education program provides an in-depth theater experience for New York City public-school teachers and students. The program reaches out to students who are economically disadvantaged and targets schools located in underserved communities throughout the city. During the 2009-2010 season, Open Stages will work with 20 high schools and 13 middle schools, reaching some 72 teachers and more than 3,400 students over two semesters.
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Living Water Children's Centre
The Living Water Children Centre is a registered Non Governmental Organization (NGO) aiming to support orphans globally. The Centre is located in Arusha, in the northern part of Tanzania. The Centre was founded by the Kimaro family in 2003 after Anza Kimaro met a six year old living on the streets and shared the story with his family. They did some research and discovered that there are over 1 million orphans in Tanzania with numbers increasing daily due to the HIV/AIDS and the Malaria pandemic. Some orphaned children can be integrated into extended families, however lack of resources and lack of education mean that many of these children end up living on the streets fending for themselves. These are children who urgently need a safe place to live. The Kimaro family started with two children in March 2003, and today, over 50 orphans and children from less fortunate backgrounds call the Centre home. Some of the LWCC children have disabilities whose families are unable to care for them, some have lost one or both parents, and some have family who are just too poor to be able to feed and clothe them. In the same year of the Centre's inception, the Kimaros home was renovated to accommodate children and family income was used to ensure that children had food, medical care and other necessities.
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Made 2B More
Made 2B More, Inc. exists to teach young girls, ages 11 – 18 who reside in Georgia, life skills and to convey God’s love through mentoring, tutoring, workshops, and recreational activities.
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Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House
The mission of the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House (MFNH) is to help strengthen and empower youth, families and community residents. It focuses on building relationships and connecting people with opportunities that address basic human service and educational needs and help build a strong community.
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Mentor Foundation USA
Mentor provides tools and best practices for drug abuse prevention, so that together we may guide children and youth toward making healthy choices. A contribution to The Mentor Foundation not only helps lead young people toward a promising future, but also supports drug abuse prevention. Together we can build a world where health and empowerment are the obvious choices for our youth, and where drug abuse can be prevented.
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Mercy Corps
Mercy Corps exists to alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities.
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Millennium Promise
Millennium Promise is the leading international nonprofit organization solely committed to eradicating poverty by supporting the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Millennium Promise oversees the Millennium Villages project, which supports integrated social and business development services for more than 500,000 people in rural communities across 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
Too many young people today drop out of school and struggle to break the cycle of poverty. Since 1987, the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) has been inspiring young people to pursue educational opportunities, start their own businesses, and succeed in life. By providing entrepreneurship education programs relevant to the real world, NFTE empowers students to own their educations in and out of the classroom and to find their own path to success.
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New Jersey SEEDS
New Jersey SEEDS (Scholars, Educators, Excellence, Dedication, Success) provides educational opportunities for motivated, high-achieving students of modest means. SEEDS programs include advanced academic classes, cultural enrichment opportunities and leadership training to help students gain admission to top schools and thereby realize their full potential. SEEDS encourages its alumni to be leaders who give back to the community.
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North India Christian Children's Education (NICCE) Foundation
The North India Christian Children’s Education (NICCE) Foundation is a non-profit corporation organized exclusively for charitable, religious, and educational purposes. We are dedicated to promoting the betterment of children in Northern India through education, religious awareness, housing assistance, and service opportunities. Our main purpose is to assist in the construction and operation of children’s homes, schools, and the buildings associated with them through financial aid, informational materials, and encouragement. Children’s homes and schools associated with the NICCE Foundation are based on Christian morals and standards according to the on-site supervisor. Overall, the values of this foundation are based on the verse Mathew 25:40, “The King will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did for the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”
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Pencils of Promise
Pencils of Promise is a 501c3 organization whose mission is to build schools in the developing world and train young leaders to take action at home and abroad. In just three years since being founded with $25, PoP has broken ground on 50+ schools, established the largest social media following of any nonprofit started in the past four years, and delivered over 1 million educational hours in the developing world.
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Prep for Prep
Prep for Prep develops leaders through access to superior education and opportunities. Since 1978, Prep has identified New York City’s most promising students of color and prepared them for placement at independent schools in the city and boarding schools throughout the Northeast. Once placed, Prep offers support and opportunities to ensure the academic accomplishment and personal growth of each one of its students.
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Project U.S.E.
As a nonprofit educational organization Project U.S.E. provides acclaimed experiential learning opportunities to more than 7,000 young people and adults each year. Project U.S.E. is based in Newark, New Jersey and serves people throughout the state, particularly those living in low-income communities. Specializing in the out-of-the-ordinary, its tools and tactics support academic learning and promote self-respect, strong character and social and environmental consciousness.
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She's the First
She's the First promotes the importance of educating girls, especially in the developing world. We send girls to school around the globe by encouraging young women to unlock the power of their social networks and creatively fundraise for sponsorships, giving underprivileged girls the means to break barriers. Most will be the first in their family to graduate.
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Special Operations Warrior Foundation
The Special Operations Warrior Foundation provides full scholarship grants and educational and family counseling to the surviving children of special operations personnel who die in operational or training missions and immediate financial assistance to severely wounded special operations personnel and their families.
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St. Joseph's School - Yorkville
Founded in 1880, St. Joseph’s School - Yorkville is a dynamic, culturally diverse, close-knit community for students in Pre-K 3 through Grade 8.
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StudioSTL
StudioSTL is dedicated to helping kids build their writing skills. Our programs are offered free of charge to all youth, ages 6 to 18, and are designed to captivate both reluctant and motivated young writers. We offer after-school writing, weekend workshops, summer camp and publishing possibilities to help kids embrace their inner superstar. Our programs are held at our writing studio, which we have designed with the area's best and brightest as a creative place to nurture self-expression.
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The Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness
The mission of the Center for Relationship Abuse Awareness is to educate and train communities and institutions to respond effectively to women who are experiencing relationship abuse.
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The Child Center of NY’s Asian Outreach Program (AOP)
The Child Center of NY’s Asian Outreach Program helps recent, at-risk Asian immigrant children and their families get their lives back on track. It is one of the very few organizations in NY that provides vulnerable Asian immigrant children and families from China, South Asia, Afghanistan, Korea and the Philippines, the mental health, substance abuse and domestic violence prevention services that they so desperately need, but are often too ashamed to access because of cultural stigma or language obstacles. Many of the children and families served live in conditions of extreme poverty and deal with issues including substance abuse, depression, domestic violence, child abuse and neglect. Yet many still don’t seek help because of the cultural shame and stigma associated with these problems and because of language barriers. Other critical services provided through AOP’s parent agency (The Child Center of NY) include multi-lingual tutoring in reading and math, treatment for infants and toddlers with developmental issues, and Head Start, a program to support parents and enhance the education and growth of children ages 3 to 5.
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The Decibels Foundation
The Decibels Foundation strives to ensure that every child with a hearing loss has the best chance to achieve to his or her full potential and to succeed in life. They accomplish this through their support of specialized early intervention, school consultation, parent support groups, workshops and more.
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The Enough Project
Enough is a project of the Center for American Progress whose mission is to build an educated constituency dedicated to ending genocide and crimes against humanity.
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The Seneca, Inc.
The mission of the Seneca is to create opportunities, resources, and sustainable networks for women in social, educational, and professional environments.
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Vanavevhu - Children of the Soil
The mission of Vanavevhu – Children of the Soil is to provide support to and advocate for child-headed households in the low-income neighborhoods in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. Vanavevhu provides for children orphaned by AIDS the resources that a parent would otherwise provide: food, education, health care, and shelter. Vanavevhu is dedicated to the financial self-sufficiency of child-headed families and seeks to contribute to the development of this youth community by providing education and training that will ensure a measurable improvement in their lives. Vanavevhu gives these youth the chance to overcome the obstacles they face as a consequence of the AIDS pandemic, economic crisis, and political turmoil. Vanavevhu nurtures and empowers these youth, as they are the future of Zimbabwe. Our investment strengthens and supports these disadvantaged families and prepares its young participants to become individuals committed to the success and growth of their immediate communities, thus benefiting the nation as a whole.
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Voices Education Project
The mission of Voices Education Project is to help people understand and transcend the roots of violence by hearing and giving voice to personal stories.
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Y Gen Out Loud
Y Gen Out Loud is a unique national online news site specifically for Generation Y, where reporters share with their peers the political, social, and cultural news of the day from their perspective. We see journalism as a way to make a difference in the world by spotlighting the truth over propaganda, elevating optimism over pessimism, and providing a community over detachment.
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