Reporting Back from the Youth Action Fair

On September 27, more than 200 young people and 20 organizations came together at the School of the Future in Manhattan for the Youth Action Fair, which Idealist put on with Do Something and Children for Children as part of the Service Nation Day of Action. Young people ranging in age from 8 to 25, [...]

Join us at the Youth Action Fair, September 27

Join us on September 27 for our first-ever Youth Action Fair, co-sponsored by DoSomething.org and Children for Children.
The Youth Action Fair will be an interactive experience, allowing young people to connect with diverse opportunities to get involved in their community and take action on issues that matter to them. The day will also include an appearance [...]

E-Advocacy Action on Plastic Bag Recycling

I posted this at GBK and thought Idealist in NYC readers would be interested to know about an e-advocacy action in NYC:
A new law by the NYC City Council went into effect last week mandating that stores of 5,000 square feet or more or chains of five stores or more must collect and recycle plastic [...]

Religion Beat: What do Religion and Belief have to do with Action?

In a country where the larger part of our population is religious, and where our current president believes that social change should come about through religious organizations, Former NYU Professor James Carse’s message might be hard for some to swallow: religion, he argues, has very little to do with belief.

To Carse, religion is [...]