DoSomething.org

DoSomething.org (DoSomething) is a national non-profit dedicated to activating and supporting young people to make positive change in their communities, schools, and the broader world. It was founded in 1993 as an effort to encourage young people to become active citizens and leaders while also making community involvement fun. Today, DoSomething.org has built up a network of more than five million young people, ages 13-25, who regularly engage in online and in-person community change efforts on a range of issues from mitigating the effects of climate change to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of their peers. Over the past year, DoSomething has engaged in a strategic planning process to recalibrate its programming and staffing structure to meet the unique needs of young people today. It will use this general operating support grant for a range of activities to put this new vision into action, including testing new approaches to engaging young people in social change activities, growing and diversifying its network, and helping to cultivate a civic-minded identity among its members. DoSomething’s goal is to engage more youth in civic and political activities that prepare them to be engaged, informed citizens and active stewards of U.S. democracy.

DoSomething.org (DoSomething) is a national non-profit designed to motivate young people to make positive change both online and offline through campaigns that make an impact. It was founded in 1993 as an effort to encourage young people to become active citizens and leaders while also making community involvement fun. Today, through its digital platform, DoSomething.org has built up a network of more than 5 million young people, ages 13-25, who regularly engage in online and off-line community change efforts on a range of issues from mitigating the effects of climate change globally to promoting LGBTQ rights in their schools. It seeks to engage a diversity of youth from across the political spectrum, in rural, urban and suburban communities, and across all socio-economic strata, to make a difference in their community and to seek understanding with those different than themselves. This grant enables DoSomething.org to continue its efforts to engage more youth in civic and political activities that prepare them to be engaged, informed citizens and active stewards of U.S. democracy.

DoSomething.org is a national nonprofit that uses new media tools and campaigns to activate young people, ages 13 to 25, to support social change at the local, state, and federal levels. It is using grant funds to launch new programming focused on inspiring youth and young adults to make real and sustained change, while building empathy between people with different lived experiences. This includes designing and launching a new set of online campaigns to activate its more than 5.5 million members on issues such as LGBT rights, criminal justice reform, climate change, women’s rights, and immigration. It is mobilizing its network to get out the vote in the mid-term elections, and is building new functionality into its platform to more effectively facilitate dialogue among members from different communities.

Do Something is a national nonprofit that leverages the power of the web and pop culture to help young people "change the world." Do Something will use grant funds to establish the Crisis Text Line, the first text-based hotline to connect teens in crisis with the support and resources they need: a free resource open to young people struggling with issues such as suicide, bullying, eating disorders, domestic abuse, homophobia, and sexual assault. The service’s text-based platform also will enable the collection of data about teens in crisis that can be used to inform policy and improve services and care.