AFI
AFI ScreenNation™ is an online video posting-and-sharing community for middle and high-school students, aged 13-18. Through the ScreenNation site teens are able to share their thoughts regarding issues of importance to them or ideas for making the world a better place. It's an opportunity for teens to be heard and spark action.
To learn more, visit www.afi.com/education/
America Scores
Best Buy is proud to support America Scores as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Since 1999, America SCORES has helped more than 39,000 kids in 15 under-resourced cities translate the values of sports into other aspects for their life through a unique program of soccer, poetry, and community service. The program creates teams – each paired with a soccer and writing coach – that learn how to become more physically fit, more comfortable speaking out, more creative in expressing themselves, and more active in their community.
To learn more, visit www.americascores.org
American Red Cross
When a natural disaster strikes any of our more than 1,000 U.S. communities, we know we can count on the American Red Cross to provide immediate and essential relief to those affected by the disaster. Best Buy works with the American Red Cross and the National Disaster Relief Fund in times of need.
Learn more about the American Red Cross, and make a donation
Ashoka's Youth Venture
Youth Venture inspires and invests in teams of young people to design and launch their own lasting social ventures, enabling them to have a transformative experience of leading positive social change.
Youth implement a variety of programs to address all kinds of social issues, including poverty, health, the elderly, the environment, education, diversity issues, and the arts. Youth Venture supports youth through this process of designing and launching their ventures, providing guidance and how-to's. Youth Venture works to stay involved with the team; connecting them with like-minded young people and catalyzing a movement of youth-led social change.
To learn more visit www.youthventure.org
Boys and Girls Clubs of America
Best Buy Children's Foundation is a proud supporter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Club Tech, a national program that makes technology, software and training accessible in Clubs. Through Club Tech, we equip millions of America's youth with vital skills and experiences to successfully compete academically and prepare for a 21st century workforce. Club Tech teaches youth essential digital literacy skills through fun, interactive lessons, available at myclubmylife.com.
Visit www.bgca.org to learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
Communities In Schools
Best Buy is proud to support Communities In Schools as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Communities In Schools is the nation's largest dropout prevention organization. The mission of Communities In Schools is to champion the connection of needed community resources with schools to help young people successfully learn, stay in school and prepare for life. By bringing caring adults into the schools to address children's unmet needs, CIS provides the link between educators and the community. The result: teachers are free to teach, and students – many in jeopardy of dropping out – have the opportunity to focus on learning.
To learn more, visit www.cisnet.org
DonorsChoose.org
Best Buy is proud to support DonorsChoose.org as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
DonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Individuals can browse project requests and donate any amount to the one that inspires them. Once a project reaches its funding goal, the materials are delivered to the school.
To learn more, visit www.donorschoose.org
DoSomething.org
Best Buy is proud to support DoSomething.org as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
DoSomething.org is the nation's largest organization helping youth support any cause that is important to them. A driving force in creating a culture of volunteerism, DoSomething.org is on course to activate two million young people each year. The award-winning site inspires, empowers and celebrates your generation: teenagers who recognize the need to do something, believe in their ability to get it done and then take action.
To learn more, visit dosomething.org
Genesys Works
Best Buy is proud to support Genesys Works as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Genesys Works enables inner-city high school students to break through barriers and discover through meaningful work experience that they can succeed as professionals in the corporate world. Students enter the program during the summer prior to their senior year. After 8 intensive weeks of training, students are assigned to work at a company, half time, during their senior year. Training is designed to arm students with the knowledge they need to provide value to corporations in a variety of functions and students are trained on the professional skills needed (such as communications and corporate behavior) to enter and succeed in corporate environments.
To learn more, visit www.genesysworks.org
GoNorth!
GoNorth! is a free adventure learning program for the K-12 classroom developed at the University of Minnesota. A team of educators, scientists, and K-12 teacher explorers are dog sledding LIVE to 5 circumpolar Arctic locations (2006 - 2010) to educate the world.
Join the team and more than 3 million learners worldwide at PolarHusky.com.
GRAMMY Foundation®
Best Buy is proud to support GRAMMY Foundation as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Everyone knows music is a global language. It's made by artists, enjoyed by everyone, and has the power to bring people together in powerful and positive ways. The GRAMMY Foundation®, helps connect youth with music professionals — artists such as Mary J. Blige, Mariah Carey, Coldplay, the Dave Matthews Band, Destiny's Child, Macy Gray, Billy Joel, Jack Johnson, Juanes, John Mayer, No Doubt, U2 and Kanye West — who can show youth the way from imagination to real world careers.
To learn more, visit www.grammyintheschools.com
KIPP
Best Buy is proud to support KIPP as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
KIPPs vision is that, one day, all public schools will help children develop the knowledge, skills, character, and habits necessary to achieve their dreams while making the world a better place. KIPP is a national network of free, open-enrollment public schools preparing students in our country's most disadvantaged communities for success in college and in life.
To learn more, visit www.kipp.org
MercyCorps – Global Citizen Corps
Best Buy is proud to support MercyCorps as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Through Mercy Corps' youth program, the Global Citizen Corps, is a movement of youth who think and act globally, have the passion to build a better world, and are committed to ending global poverty.
To learn more, visit www.globalcitizencorps.org
MOUSE
MOUSE is a nonprofit organization that creates technology-based opportunities that motivate underserved students to succeed in today's information society. The MOUSE squad program trains students to serve as in-school technical support help desks. Students get a variety of hands-on opportunities to learn technology management for middle and high schools. In the end, they have real skills to offer in the job market.
To learn more visit www.mouse.org
National Council of La Raza - Emerging Latino Leaders Scholarship Program
Best Buy is a proud partner of the National Council of La Raza's (NCLR) Emerging Latino Leaders Scholarship Program. The NCLR-Best Buy Latino Leaders Scholarship Program recognizes high school seniors for leadership in their communities through volunteerism and provides them the opportunity to benefit from higher education.
To learn more visit www.nclr.org.
National Urban League - Project Ready
Best Buy is a proud partner of the National Urban League Project Ready Program. The Project Ready College Preparation Curriculum is a unique and comprehensive approach to addressing the academic, personal, and social needs of African American teens. The curriculum integrates academic preparation along with life skill development and personal, global and cultural awareness to transition into post-secondary education.
To learn more visit www.nul.org.
National Youth Leadership Council
Best Buy is proud to support National Youth Leadership Council as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
NYLC has led a movement that links youth, educators, and communities to redefine the roles of young people in society. That movement is service-learning, and it empowers youth to transform themselves from recipients of information and resources into valuable, contributing members of a democracy. Service-learning is a teaching method that enriches learning by engaging students in meaningful service to their schools and communities through a process that is carefully integrated with learning objectives. It emphasizes critical thinking and problem solving, tackles challenges such as hunger and homelessness, and values people of all ages as having talents to offer.
To learn more, visit www.nylc.org
PACER Center's Teens Against Bullying
Best Buy is proud to support PACER Center as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
PACER's Teens Against Bullying Web site is a relevant, edgy, and unique educational resource for bullying prevention designed to engage, empower and educate all teens. Created by and for teens, information is presented in an innovative, engaging and interactive style. There are solutions—creative resources that all teens—can use to educate other teens and young people and to raise awareness in their community or to help other teens in bullying situations.
To learn more, visit www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org
Project Girl
Best Buy is proud to support Project Girl as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
PROJECT GIRL is a girl-led, arts-based initiative created to enable girls to become better informed critical consumers of mass media advertising and entertainment. The purpose of PROJECT GIRL is to enable girls to look at all media forms with smart eyes so that they control the interpretation of what they see and hear rather than letting the interpretation control them. Adolescent girl advisors, leading scholars, educators, media activists, health experts and artists all helped create the PROJECT GIRL media literacy curriculum, and traveling Art Exhibition.
To learn more, visit www.projectgirl.org
RACE: Are We So Different?
Best Buy is proud to support the Science Museum of Minnesota and the American Anthropological Association as the national presenting sponsor of the traveling exhibition "RACE: Are we so different." The exhibit will visit numerous cities within the U.S. through 2010 to educate people on the idea of race. Through scientific and historical data, race is examined in ways that challenge how people think about human variation.
To learn more visit www.understandingrace.org.
Room to Read
Best Buy is proud to support Room to Read as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Room to Read partners with local communities in Asia and Africa to provide quality educational opportunities by establishing libraries, creating new children's books in over 20 local languages, constructing schools, and providing education to girls. In just 10 years Room to Read has reached over 4.1 million children by establishing almost 10,000 libraries, building more than 1,100 schools, publishing over 400 children's book titles, and supporting nearly 9,000 girls to continue their education through high school.
To learn more, visit www.roomtoread.org
Scholarship America
Each year @15 Best Buy Scholarships are awarded to high school students. Students are selected based on academic achievement, community service and work experience. Scholarship America is our nonprofit administrative partner for the Best Buy @15 Scholarship program.
To learn more about Scholarship America visit www.scholarshipamerica.org.
Learn more about the Best Buy @15 Scholarship program.
Search Institute
Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization that provides leadership, knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. The institute generates and communicates new knowledge and brings together community, state and national leaders.
There is an abundance of research on teen problems, angst and risks but little or no formal research on teen strengths, hopes and passions. Search Institute conducted a research study on behalf of Best Buy Children's Foundation focused on youth ages 14-16 to gain insight into their passions and strengths as part of our @15™ commitment to teens.
Review the Teen Voices 2009 Report
To learn more about Search Institute visit www.search-institute.org.
Starkey Hearing Foundation – Sound Matters
Best Buy is proud to support Sound Matters as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Hearing loss is a significant and growing health issue. Worldwide, more than 500 million are estimated to have hearing loss, including one in ten Americans. Still, only 16% of American physicians even test for hearing loss. The increased use of poor-fitting in-ear listening devices and a global population that loves portable music and entertainment has added to this growing problem. Starkey Hearing Foundation is working to raise social awareness of hearing conservation with the Sound Matters campaign.
To learn more, visit www.soundmatters.org
Students Today Leaders Forever
Best Buy is proud to support Students Today Leaders Forever as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Founded by teenagers , Students Today Leaders Forever has contributed 80,000 hours of service around the nation. STLF's mission is to reveal leadership through service, relationships, and action. Best known for the Pay it Forward Tour— a community service road trip made for youth, by youth. STLF combines travel, service, reflection, and friendship in a unique way, focusing on youth and their impact on the world.
To learn more, visit www.stlf.net
truth®
Best Buy is proud to support truth® as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
truth® is a peer to peer initiative that provides facts about tobacco products and the tobacco industry, and gives teens the control to make their own informed decisions. Each summer, truth® reaches over 500,000 teens of all backgrounds in cities and communities across the country through its grassroots outreach, the truth® summer tour. truth® was directly responsible for keeping 450,000 teens from starting to smoke during its first four years.
For more information visit www.thetruth.com
United Way
Best Buy has been a long time supporter of United Way. Last year alone, the company and our employees contributed over $6.3 million to our communities. The dollars donated are in addition to the numerous hours that our employees spend volunteering with United Way funded agencies in their communities.
For more information about United Way visit www.UnitedWay.org.
YMCA
Best Buy is proud to support YMCA as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
The nation's 2,687 YMCAs respond to critical social needs by drawing on our collective strength as one of the largest not-for-profit community service organizations in the United States. YMCAs serve nearly 21 million people each year-including more than 4 million youth between the ages of 12 and 18. Nationwide, Ys offer a variety of programs and services focused on helping young people to reach their full potential. In addition to health and well-being programs directed at youth, local YMCAs offer programs focused on leadership, post-secondary education paths, service projects and more.
To learn more, visit www.ymca.net
Youth Service America
Best Buy is proud to support Youth Service America as one of its @15 Exchange Partners.
Youth Service America works in more than 100 countries around the world. YSA invests in youth who are interested in changing their local, national, and global communities every day of the year. YSA provides teenagers with grant money, resources, and recognition for their achievements.
To learn more, visit www.ysa.org
