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Johns Creek Herald: Johns Creek Teen Keeps Kids Afloat by Jennifer Chapman, January 22, 2009
White is also a Youth Venture Ambassador where she works with others to help youth start their own non-profit organizations and social ventures. Through Youth Venture, White heard about the Best Buy 15 Challenge. White entered the contest and received more than 10,000 votes in an online poll to become a winner of the challenge. She received $10,000 to support Wild and Water Swimming.
USA Service: An Everyone a Changemaker World by Marco A. Davis, January 15, 2009
By answering the call to Renew America Together, and engaging America’s youth, we will create a culture of young people initiating positive and lasting change, and help move the world in the historic direction it must go, so that solutions outpace the growth of problems — a world where everyone can be powerful, everyone can be a changemaker.
New York Times: Talia for President by Nicholas D. Kristof, November 16, 2008
Young people have often been engaged in social movements, of course, but today’s activists are younger than ever. More important, these kids aren’t just protesters but rather are “social entrepreneurs,” pioneering clever ways to “give back” just as a business entrepreneur fills a market niche.
Washington Post: For This Generation, Vocations of Service by Ian Shapira, October 14, 2008
Ashoka, an Arlington County-based organization that funds social start-ups, created a program in the mid-1990s for would-be entrepreneurs ages 12 to 20. Ashoka’s Youth Venture has launched more than 2,000 projects worldwide…
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