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KC Baker’s Words of Wisdom

January 4, 2012 / Archive, Charity, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Style, vid, Videos

KC Baker, founder of The School For The Well Spoken Woman, shares some inspirational words for women everywhere. Find out more about KC Baker at http://www.kcbaker.com And take a look at her interviews with our very own Rebekah Austin And check us out on Part-1 And check us out on Part-2 Be sure to follow us on Twitter! And check us out on Facebook As of 2009 the Dali Llama said “The Western woman will save the world.” And what [...]

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Interview With Christine Arylo

December 9, 2011 / Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Pop Topics, Social Media, Style, Technology, vid, Videos

Sarah Austin sits down with author Christine Arylo. Her book “Choosing Me Before We” is an inspirational guide for all women on how to love themselves. Her website www.madlyinlovewithme.com is also a platform for women to share and experience self-love. Sarah asks Christine about the book, the website, and her role as an inspirational woman in culture. Check out Christine’s website Madly In Love With Me And you can buy her new book Choosing Me Before We Interact with Pop17 [...]

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Do Whatever It Takes!

November 28, 2011 / Charity, Entertainment, Facebook, Pop Topics, Social Media

In 2007, the Virgin companies lobbied Congress to declare November as National Youth Homelessness Awareness month. This year, Virgin Unite hopes to raise $100,000 for their cause. DID YOU KNOW? ●More than 1.3 youth are homeless at some time each year. ●1 in 8 youth under the age 18 will leave home and become homeless in need of services. ●12-17 year olds are at more rise of homelessness than are adults. ●In a 2004 report, child protective services agencies reported [...]

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KC Baker’s School for The Well Spoken Woman: Part 2

November 8, 2011 / Charity, Facebook, Featured, Lifestyle, Pop Topics, Social Media, vid, Videos

In part 2 of our interview with KC Baker, founder of the school for the well spoken woman, KC talks about the school’s focus and some highlights of a recent event. Take a look inside the mind of a uniquely inspiring individual and let us know what you think in the comments below. And don’t forget – Follow us on Twitter And check us out on YouTube

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Global Youth Summit on Innovative Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship

October 27, 2011 / Charity, Entrepreneurs, Lifestyle, Social Media, Technology

Global Youth Summit on Innovative Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship As technology continues to increase as rapidly as it has been for the past ten years, social and environmental forces will persist to escalate. Technology is the one utility that has heightened the worlds community inter-connectedly and inter-dependently. From all over the world people are seeking new innovative transformative ideas, new resources and different types of leadership to guarantee a positive, peaceful and sustainable future. Thus indicating that the future generations [...]

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Adobe Youth Voices & Peapod Foundation

September 6, 2011 / Archive, Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Lifestyle, Social Media, Technology, Videos

Adobe foundation, with the help from a little group we like to call “The Black Eyed Peas”, and their Peapod Foundation have launched a total of five Adobe Youth Voices academies to date that focus on multimedia tools to help youth make a difference! By providing breakthrough learning experiences for young people, adobe youth voices philosophy is to: “capitalizes on young people’s innate optimism and sense of justice, helping encourage youth to be creative, articulate contributors to their communities.” You [...]

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Should Corporations Support Altruism?

August 30, 2011 / Charity, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Pop Topics, Technology, vid, Videos

Philanthropy is used as a form of public relations or advertising- promoting a company’s image through a cause-related marketing strategy. Should corporations engage in philanthropy? Walmart is not only the worlds largest retailer, it’s also the number one most charitable organization. Other major organizations, like Wells Fargo, have been recognized as leaders in investments of non-profit and micro-financing institution. Do you think it enhances the appeal of a corporation of it has shared values in philanthropy and non-profits? Let us [...]

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Juice To You Organics

August 23, 2011 / Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Social Media, Style, Technology

Charles Gulick is a 28 year old entrepreneur and founder of Juice To You, a local San Francisco organic juice pressing company. Five years ago Charles Gulick was diagnosed with a rare liver disease before the company had first commenced. PSC (Primary Sclerosin Cholangitis) is a chronic liver disease caused by progressive inflammation and scarring of the bile ducts of the liver. Gulick underwent several invasive procedures where a physician entered through his mouth and dilate his bile ducts under [...]

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Tax The Rich To Help The Poor? What Do You Think?

August 22, 2011 / Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Live, vid, Videos

With a growing global debt crisis, money is on the mind of the people. Last week billionaire Warren Buffet called for the rich to pay higher taxes. Do we tax the rich to help the poor? Or does everybody fend for themselves? Pop17′s Rebekah Austin gets the pulse of the people with some hard hitting questions. Tell us what you think and leave your comments below! Don’t forget to follow Sarah and Rebekah on Twitter @Pop17

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“Do Something” Awards 2011 Preview!

August 17, 2011 / Charity, Entertainment, Featured, Lifestyle, Live, Pop Topics, Style, vid, Videos

Jen and Rebekah kick off the Do Something Something Awards by giving you a brief preview of the nominees! There’s Justin Bieber, Daniel Radcliffe, Glee, Pretty little liars, Nick Jonas, and many more! Tune in to see who is what and what is hot! Check out the rest of the nominees

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Avaaz.org – Making A Difference

August 15, 2011 / Charity, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Live, Social Media, vid, Videos

Avaaz.org is a non-profit organization that advocates the importance of societal activism globally. Avaaz ranges from small philanthropic cases in London to global issues at UN conferences. Each individual effort aims to achieve a global community with desires to change the world one step at a time. Go ahead and see for yourself at Avaaz.org

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Inside VidCon – Part 4: Lauren Francesca

August 9, 2011 / Archive, Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Social Media, vid, Videos

In the final part of Pop17′s “Inside VidCon” series, Sarah catches up with Lauren Francesca, AKA “Iwantmylauren”. Lauren burst onto the scene in 2009 when she teamed up with Tom Small’s “Key of Awesome” YouTube Channel. Her first major contribution was a now infamous Lady Gaga music video parody. The video received over 32 million hits on YouTube, and vaulted Lauren to internet celebrity status. In this video, Sarah and Lauren kick back and talk about her most popular videos, [...]

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Do Something!

August 5, 2011 / Charity, Entertainment, Entrepreneurs, Featured, Lifestyle, Live, Pop Topics, Technology

Dosomething.org is a non profit organization that advocates the participation of young people in their community today! The website strives to achieve social change. “Do Something” manifests the idea that instead of watching television or playing sports, more value is found by volunteering within their community. Television is so ingrained in the daily lives of young people, provoking the idea of volunteerism is a stretch. Every year dosomething.org hosts a contest for the most creative, communal and impacting volunteer project [...]

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