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The Civic 50, published today by Bloomberg Businessweek, offers the nation's first comprehensive ranking of S&P 500 companies that best use their time, talent and resources to improve the quality of life in the communities where they do business.
Zach Certner, one of our generationOn 2012 Hasbro Community Action Heroes is highlighted in Take Part this week.
Zach Certner believes the best people to spread an anti-bullying message for special needs children are their peers.
Michelle's Optimist's Tour of America was published in the AJC this past week.
By Michelle Nunn
More than half of Americans tell pollsters they believe our country is heading in the wrong direction, they doubt their children will have a better future, and they believe American values are eroding.
Michelle talks about social change at the Social Capital Market Conference in San Francisco last week.
Are you a fearless changemaker?
Did you take a risk that paid off? Did you experiment with a few ideas before coming up with the right one? Did you learn from failure, succeed through partnerships or let urgency conquer your fear? If your answer is yes, you could win up to $25,000 in grants and prizes from the Case Foundation.
Points of Light is joining the Case Foundation to search for undiscovered social innovators who are dreaming big and taking risks to change their communities and the world.
Is the country heading in the wrong direction? That's the question that sent Points of Light CEO Michelle Nunn on a seven-week car trip across the country with her family. This week, USA Today is featuring her conclusions.
GenerationOn is giving out 50 start-up grants of $300 each to spark youth service around the country. The mini-grants are available to support generationOn Kids Care Clubs (ages 5-10) and generationOn Service Clubs (ages 11-18) that register between Sept. 1, 2012 and Nov. 15, 2012 and commit to completing a service project by May 31, 2012. Applications are due by Nov. 15, 2012.
You don't often hear high school students rave about banking, but PIMCO's "Tools for Tomorrow" skills-based volunteer program has youth in Orange County, Calif., fired up about credit and debt, budgeting and more.
"The best feedback we receive from Tools for Tomorrow students is when we hear them say, 'I'm going home and telling my mom about budgeting.' Or, 'I'm going to talk to my parents about opening a savings account," said Sarah Middleton, vice president of community outreach for PIMCO and executive director of the PIMCO Foundation. "These stories are amazing and impactful, especially because we're working with students whose parents literally keep their money under their mattresses."
Today the Washington Post ran an article about our Points of Light Tribute Awards event that happened this past Friday evening in Washington, D.C. Thanks to everyone for making it a successful event.
Read the news article here.
The deadline to apply to join Points of Light's Civic Accelerator is drawing near. This innovative program, a partnership with Village Capital and supported by PwC Charitable Foundation Inc. and Starbucks Coffee Company, will invest in nonprofit and for-profit startups that inspire, equip and mobilize people as part of their solution to create positive change.
On Tuesday, Aug. 28, generationOn announced the grant winners for The World Needs More Community Action Heroes campaign. The two month campaign funded by Hasbro encouraged kids and teens to join forces to do good this summer. Over 14,000 youth from around the world answered the call and organized service projects in their communities. Ten outstanding projects were selected to receive $500 grants to continue their work.