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Harvard Grads Open Student-Run Homeless Shelter for Young Adults

Being homeless is obviously tough, but it can be especially hard as a young adult. Aged out of foster care, young adults are left to adult homeless shelters where their age makes them more vulnerable than older adults. Sarah Rosenkrantz and Sam Greenberg – recent graduates of Harvard – opened Y2Y Harvard Square, a student-run homeless shelter for young adults, to offer an alternative solution.…

December 20, 2017 No Comments

Breaking Bread: Where We Create & Celebrate Unexpected Friendships

Dear readers, We’d like to formally introduce you to our story category, Breaking Bread. This is where (seemingly) unlikely friendships take off, where people from all walks of life come together to enjoy some company. In a time when so much energy is being put into polarizing and stoking divides, we believe highlighting stories of folks finding brightness in each other…

December 18, 2017 No Comments

MEDA Helps Graduates Land Full-Time IT Jobs

When Edwin Gonzales fled El Salvador for the U.S. he came carrying a dream and little else. Backed with a burly work ethic, he teamed up with Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) and turned his dream into a full-time tech career. Edwin put time in kitchens before a friend hooked him up with the folks at MEDA. They led him…

December 1, 2017 No Comments

Tipping Point, Non-Profit Aims to Pioneer the End of Poverty

Tipping Point Community is an SF-based nonprofit that doesn’t mess around when it comes to helping folks in need. They raise funds (mostly from private donors) to help local organizations that are working to eradicate homelessness and poverty. They help the public sector improve their programs and also invest in startups that are coming up with new and fresh ways to…

November 15, 2017 No Comments

Tough Talks With Kids

Instead of tiptoeing around tough talks, let’s help them gain awareness in a way that isn’t overwhelming. Because even if they don’t explicitly understand it, they pick up on racism and prejudice at an early age. Give ‘em books on POC, celebrate bi-racial heritages, volunteer as an educator at their elementary school, etc. The bottom line is: talk about it.…

November 9, 2017 No Comments

Couple Creates ‘Ask a Muslim’ Booth to Battle Fear

Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins set up a little booth near Cambridge library with signs that said “Ask a Muslim”, boxes full of donuts, and thermoses of hot coffee. They were really nervous at first. ⠀⠀ It was 2015, shortly after the horrible shooting in San Bernadino. The two parents hid in their homes for days, afraid to leave the…

October 27, 2017 No Comments

Eayikes, Non-Profit Empowering Youth

Eayikes [say E-Yikes] is a non-profit built by 3 friends – Alex, Kyle, and Ray – that’s creating safe, creative spaces to help young folks make positive changes in their lives and their worlds. They aim to teach kids how to really listen and cultivating wonder. “You’ll hear other people’s stories and experiences, things that haven’t happened to you and…

October 26, 2017 No Comments

Two Girls Invent Best, Inclusive Superhero Costume Ever

Casey Pearlman and Yasmin Idris are two teens from Laguna Niguel, California who decided they needed to invent their own superhero for Halloween. Superman or Wonder Woman just wouldn’t do. They called themselves ‘Juslims’ and one of their superpowers is to ‘watch each other’s back’. They donned striped leggings and capes with the letters JM painted on in glitter glue.…

October 26, 2017 No Comments

Explorer Club Celebrates 85 Years of Bad*** Lady Adventurers

At their first dinner, a woman showed up with a mummified South American Indian head – only a hint of the Earthly oddities the Society of Women Geographers chased. The whole thing started when a group of well-traveled and sharp as hell women wanted in on the all-male Explorer’s Club, to which the men turned up their noses and said,…

October 20, 2017 No Comments

Concerts for the Deaf

You know that feeling when you’re at a concert and you don’t care how sweaty you are because the song they’re playing is so good you can feel it in your bones? Amber Galloway Gallego aims to bring that catharsis to the deaf and hard of hearing. She interprets music for the deaf, but it’s not your standard ASL. She…

October 17, 2017 No Comments

Harvard Grads Open Student-Run Homeless Shelter for Young Adults

Breaking Bread: Where We Create & Celebrate Unexpected Friendships

MEDA Helps Graduates Land Full-Time IT Jobs

Tipping Point, Non-Profit Aims to Pioneer the End of Poverty

Tough Talks With Kids

Couple Creates ‘Ask a Muslim’ Booth to Battle Fear

Eayikes, Non-Profit Empowering Youth

Two Girls Invent Best, Inclusive Superhero Costume Ever

Explorer Club Celebrates 85 Years of Bad*** Lady Adventurers

Concerts for the Deaf

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