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Prematurity Awareness Month

Editor’s Note: Jared Doles is a member of the YSA Youth Council and a student at Arizona State University in Tempe , majorin read more

Generation Y's Social Movement?

Editor’s Note: Natalie Castellanos is the co-founder of Inspired Generation, a nonprofit youth empowerment organizat read more

Youth Driving the Change

Editor's Note: Andrew Leon Hanna and Blair Brettschneider represented the United States at the 7th Annual UNESCO read more

Why Are We Surprised by the Power of Youth?

Editor's Note: The following post is from Andrea Cahn, Senior Director of Special Olympics Project UNIFY, who presented t

Time To Start Listening to Our World’s Youth

Editor's Note: Andrew Leon Hanna is sophomore class president at Duke University and a Robertson Scholar.

The State Department Gets It

Last weekend, I was in New York for a State Department Panel entitled, "Youth Driving Change: Global Youth and Civic Engagement." The event itself was just as amazing as the story behind it -- one read more

FWD the Facts

Editor's Note: Ross Seidman is a freshman at the University of Maryland, a member of Youth Service America’s National Youth Council and Board of Directors, and the Youth Working Group to the U.S. National Commission to UNESCO.

On Saturday, September 24, 2011, I had the privilege to help organize a panel discussion at the United States Mission to the United Nations in NYC, followed by a presentation on the new USAID FWD the Facts campaign that had just been released a few days prior.  The panel consisted of civically engaged youth both domestically and globally and was moderated by Under Secretary of Democracy and Global Affairs, Maria Otero.  There were well over fifty young people in the audience ranging from college students to professionals. read more

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