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Be a Changemaker Laurie Ann Thompson

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Be a Changemaker Laurie Ann Thompson


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Zusammenfassung

For teens who wish make a difference in their community or even the world, this inspiring guide empowers them with the confidence and knowledge they need to affect real change. Prompted by engaging youth profiles, step-by-step exercises, and practical tips, teens can start making a difference today.

Be a Changemaker Zusammenfassung

Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters Laurie Ann Thompson

Empower yourself in today's highly connected, socially conscious world as you learn how to wield your passions, digital tools, and the principles of social entrepreneurship to affect real change in your schools, communities, and beyond.

At age eleven, Jessica Markowitz learned that girls in Rwanda are often not allowed to attend school, and Richards Rwanda took shape.

During his sophomore year of high school, Zach Steinfeld put his love of baking to good use and started the Baking for Breast Cancer Club.

Do you wish you could make a difference in your community or even the world? Are you one of the millions of high school teens with a service-learning requirement? Either way, Be a Changemaker will empower you with the confidence and knowledge you need to affect real change. You'll find all the tools you need right here--through engaging youth profiles, step-by-step exercises, and practical tips, you can start making a difference today.

This inspiring guide will teach you how to research ideas, build a team, recruit supportive adults, fundraise, host events, work the media, and, most importantly, create lasting positive change. Apply lessons from the business world to problems that need solving and become a savvy activist with valuable skills that will benefit you for a lifetime!

Be a Changemaker Bewertungen

"This book is packed with practical advice and inspiration for anyone who has a yearning to build a better world."--David Bornstein, author of How to Change the World and columnist for the New York Times
"There's no time when we most want to change the world than in our youth years. Laurie Ann Thompson speaks clearly to young people who want to make a difference in their surroundings, doing their part to make the world a better place. Thompson explains that no matter how small a good idea may seem, it may be just a tiny seed for something that will grow and affect other people's lives in a positive way."--Ana Calabresi, Librarian
"Teens looking to make a difference will find inspiration as well as real-world strategies for realizing their dreams of being the change they want to see in the world."--Kirkus Reviews
"[Be a Changemaker] is a book that forces readers to not only think realistically but also to think big."--Booklist
"Socially aware teens are not content to sit idly by and watch the world fail to solve problems. They want to be out there helping and reshaping the world. Savvy librarians will match this book with those teens and get them jumpstarted on their path."--VOYA
"From discovering potential causes and passions to creating business plans, soliciting donations, and being aware of legal and financial pitfalls, Thompson offers thorough, encouraging advice for the next generation of activists.--Publishers Weekly

Über Laurie Ann Thompson

Laurie Ann Thompson is the coauthor of the Two Truths and a Lie series and author of several award-winning nonfiction books, including the teen how-to Be a Changemaker and Emmanuel's Dream, a picture book biography about Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, which was the recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award and was named an ALA Notable Children's Book and a CCBC Choice, among other accolades. She lives with her family outside Seattle, and you can visit her online at LaurieThompson.com.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR007907213
9781582704647
1582704643
Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters Laurie Ann Thompson
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Beyond Words Publishing
2014-11-01
230
Commended for Parents Choice Awards (Spring) (2008-Up) (Nonfiction) 2015
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