BE A CHANGEMAKER: HOW TO START SOMETHING THAT MATTERS: SOCIAL ACTION WORKSHOPS

Best Users: Librarians, Educators, Social Action, Groups, Home Learners
Best Audience: Children Grades 07-12

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

Want to support your teens’ drive to make changes in their community and country?

Curious City, Teen Librarian’s Toolbox and author Laurie Ann Thompson have created a guide for running a series of six workshops that empower teens to be changemakers.

Complete with advertising posters, preparation guides, icebreakers, worksheets and more, the Be a Changemaker Workshops will get your teens actively thinking and acting on their ideas.

DOWNLOAD Be a Changemaker: Teen Workshop Series (PDF)
READ Laurie Ann Thompson’s post,”Empower kids and teens during COVID-19″
 

ABOUT THE BOOK

Be a Changemaker: How to Start Something That Matters
By Laurie Ann Thompson
Foreword by Bill Drayton
Published by Simon Pulse/Beyond Words
ISBN: 9781582704647
Ages: 12+

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!

Coalition of Visionary Resources Book of the Year Award
SCBWI Crystal Kite Members’ Choice Award, West Division
Parents’ Choice Recommended Seal
Nautilus Silver Award for Young Adult Nonfiction
Moonbeam Awards Gold Medal
Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award
Junior Library Guild selection
2014 Cybils Award finalist

“Teens with an entrepreneurial and charitable bent will find this book a trove.”
—School Library Journal
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“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
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“Designed as a guide for young social entrepreneurs, this is a thorough and passionate manual for empowered readers to pursue their dreams of making the world a better place…. the mantra that change starts with you will linger well beyond the final page.”
—Booklist
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“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
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“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