List of Nonprofit Teen Organizations
The goal of many youth organizations is to teach teenagers the importance of being a leader, to improve character and help to provide career and educational opportunities. Nonprofit teen organizations exist across the United States. If you want your teen to have career opportunities that otherwise would not be available, or learn how to be a leader, pick a teen organization to guide your teen down the right path.
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Trent Tucker Youth Program
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Trent Tucker is a former NBA star who as of 2010 works with youth and hosts other charity events across Minnesota. One aspect of Tucker's nonprofit youth program takes teens to the University of Minnesota for a first-hand look at college. The program focuses on youth from 6th to 8th grade. The students meet twice every week after school and also go on a monthly field trip. The program takes at-risk youth inside Minnesota cities and suburbs and provides them with the skills they need to make positive life decisions. The Trent Tucker program also has been working on creating a charter school to provide these opportunities to teenagers full-time instead of just after-school since 2008.
The DAIR Project
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The DAIR Project was developed in 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia. Instead of a school approach, DAIR uses aerial dance to empower teens across the Atlanta area. Aerial dance is dance in the vertical realm as well as the horizontal by suspension items like trapezes, ropes or ladders. DAIR's website notes that the organization hopes to provide teenagers with a sense of accountability, self-discipline, community support and an acceptance of diversity. DAIR is an acronym for dream, accept, inspire and revolutionize. The program has four smaller programs teens can get involved in: D'AIR Teen Program, D'AIR Social Outreach, D'AIR Professional and D'AIR Community Classes. Each program offers something a little different, but all the programs encourage teens to express themselves creatively and grow as a person.
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Street Teens
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In Las Vegas, Nevada, Street Teens is focused on getting teens off the streets. Street is an acronym for the approach the organization takes to get teens back to safety. The programs helps kids first of all survive and provides immediate help to the teens. The staff then works to gain the teens trust and build relationships with them. The staff also provides the teens with any necessary resources they need, like help with affording housing. They also give the teens education and career opportunities. The organization works to empower teens to move forward and "become effective members of their communities," according to the website.
The Pittsburgh Project
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The Pittsburgh Project, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is an after-school program for children up to 5th grade who need help with homework. The Project also provides extra classes in things not often taught at their own schools, like ecology or anger management. The nonprofit also works with teenagers to become leaders-in-training, or LITs, who help the teachers and students within the classrooms. The Project also sends teens out into the surrounding communities to help vulnerable residents with household chores or errands. The teens also help to rebuild houses and plant community gardens in hopes of providing the teens with educational opportunities to help them become leaders in their communities.
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