Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Do Something

DoSomething.org is a youth-oriented website (it's main page hawks the opportunity to win a date with Leonardo DiCaprio) with the goal of "using the power of online to get teens to do good stuff offline".  The website features drop-down boxes offering an easy way to choose what you want to do, what size of a group you want to do it in, and how often you want to volunteer.  Additionally, they give out both small and large grants to teens who have ideas for community projects.  While this website seems to be nationally based and not very hands-on, it is very easily accessible to youth of all ages and I like that it gives out $500 grants to kids as young as eleven.  

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