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Beyond Drugs: Health as a Path to Happiness

Greater Good Yobo Member
January 27th, 2012

Andrew Weil is best known as a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine—a healing-oriented approach to health care that integrates the body, mind, and spirit.

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Haitian Students Celebrate New Opportunities

AFSC Yobo Member
December 26th, 2011

After six months of hard work in an accelerated technical training program, youth supported by AFSC in Martissant, a Port-au-Prince community, celebrated their achievement in a graduation ceremony held in Petionville.

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A Divestment Christmas Carol

CSRwire Yobo Member
December 9th, 2011

On Saturday, December 3 at 11:00 AM, crowds gathered as members of Swarthmore Mountain Justice performed their own rendition of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.

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Melon Update and My Projects in Uganda

Chrysalis School for Young Entrepreneurs Yobo Member
October 21st, 2011

My name is Oceng Morrish and I am 15 years old and the oldest student at the Chrysalis School for Young Social Entrepreneurs. I am in Senior 1. I am one of the members of the Butterfly Project and I live in a small village in Lamwo district of Uganda.

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What Will Matter

Josephson Institute
August 8th, 2011

What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.

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Empowering for the Future

AFSC Yobo Member
January 19th, 2012

Our future is only as strong as the young people we have invested in as a community. Miafere “Mia” Jones is a young woman doing just that in Baltimore City, not just investing in our youth, but also offering herself as a resource to those in need of guidance.

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New York City Public Schools Compete to Be the Greenest

Nation of Change
December 16th, 2011

Last Friday, Solar One and city officials announced the launch of a public school-wide competition that will award a total of $30,000 to schools that can achieve the most energy savings by next April.

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Reading, Writing, Empathy: The Rise of ‘Social Emotional Learning’

Dowser
November 1st, 2011

At a time of contentious debate over how to reform schools to make teachers more effective and students more successful, “social emotional learning” may be a key part of the solution.

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Empowering Youth in Baltimore, Maryland, USA

AFSC Yobo Member
August 10th, 2011

AFSC’s Youth Empowerment through Conflict Resolution Program works with school students, teachers, and organizations to promote peace and justice in Baltimore’s neighborhoods.

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Harry Potter Activism Group Works For Good Causes!

The Harry Potter Alliance
July 20th, 2011

The Harry Potter Alliance fights the Dark Arts in the real world by using parallels from Harry Potter. We work for human rights, equality, and a better world just as Harry and his friends did throughout the books.

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