January 17, 2020

Culture

Learn It, Live It, Love It: The Doing Good Edition

By: Cindy Cerquitella

Learn it:
It’s always exciting when a friend gets to share their ideas on a national stage, and the TED stage is a thrilling one! Give a listen to this brand new talk from David Bier on guest worker programs.

Live it:
For your long weekend reading, here’s Katherine Mangu-Ward’s opinion on why “ normal” may not be the world we’re craving. “We don’t really want things to be normal. Normal wasn’t working. We want politics to function smoothly and without much attention. We want politicians to leave us alone.”

Are you looking for a big opportunity to create something innovative at a major nonprofit organization? Check out this awesome fellowship from the Morgridge Family Foundation. (Hat tip: Rachel Ayerst Manfredi)

The National Day of Service in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. is this Monday, if you’re in the DC area and looking for a volunteer opportunity, Brightest Young Things has compiled a great list of places to serve those in need. What ways will you be volunteering in your city?

Love it:
At AF, we do what we do because we know young people change the world. They have the courage and the drive to see things in ways no one else has before. This round up by Forbes 30 under 30 of the Decade’s Top Under 30 founders proves just that. Can you imagine the world if these young leaders decided to wait until they were older or wiser? What plan do you have in the works to land on this list in 2030?