Ashoka's Youth Venture
Youth Venture is a global nonprofit that helps teams of young people design and launch their own social ventures that target a multitude of issues and interests. Youth Venture provides teens with the tools, guidance, training and funding needed to create positive change within their communities.
Best Buy Children's Foundation is proud to partner with Youth Venture as the administrator of the Best Buy @15 Fund. Through the @15 Fund Youth Venture will award grants by teens for teen implemented social venture projects designed to advance the @15 mission.
To learn more visit www.youthventure.org
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 will conduct a research study on behalf of Best Buy focused on youth ages 14-16 to gain insight into their passions and strengths as part of our @15TM commitment to teens.
To learn more about the Search Institute visit www.search-institute.org
Boys and Girls Club of America
Best Buy Children's Foundation is a proud supporter of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America's Club Tech program. Through Club Tech, Clubs across the country are provided with the tools to give members computer skills; introduce them to digital movie making, photography and web design.
Visit www.bgca.org to learn more about Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
AFI Screen Nation
AFI ScreenNation™ is the first online video posting-and-sharing community for middle and high-school students, aged 13-18. Through the ScreenNationTM 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 http://screennation.afi.com/
Mouse Squad
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 vareity 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
Go North
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.
The online education program is anchored in natural and social science curricula for K-12 classrooms. Each spring, during the 14-16 week LIVE event, learners enter the online classroom for powerful collaborative opportunities. The team presents live field updates and field research findings in collaboration with NASA and the National Science Foundation.
To learn more visit www.PolarHusky.com.
Junior Achievement
Junior Achievement seeks to educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives. Best Buy Children’s Foundation is proud to partner with Junior Achievement to host Job Shadow opportunities for middle and high school students in our stores nationwide. This program helps students make the critical link between what they learn in the classroom and how that applies to the workplace
To schedule a Job Shadow Day Event in your store, please contact your local Junior Achievement office. To find the JA office nearest you, visit www.ja.org and click the “JA Near You” tab.
National Urban League
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
NCLR
Best Buy is a proud partner of the National Council of La Raza's (NCLR) Emerging Latino Leaders Scholarship Program. The NCLRBest Buy Latino Leaders Scholarship Program recognizes high school seniors for their leadership in their communities through volunteerism and provides them the opportunity to benefit from higher education.
To learn more visit www.nclr.org
NAACP
Best Buy is a proud sponsor of the NAACP Image Awards. Presented annually, the NAACP Image Awards is the nation's premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of multicultural people in the arts.
To learn more visit www.naacpimageawards.net.
Science Museum of MN
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
Sweat Equity
SEE is a project-based youth development program that takes place in a real professional environment. Teenagers participate during four years of high school gaining intensive design, technology and entrepreneurship training. Students have the opportunity to develop original graphics, products, or apparel designs from concept to prototype in partnership with a company partner.
To learn more visit www.sweatequityenterprises.org
Best Buy Teach Awards
At Best Buy we believe technology can excite and engage students, creating a more valuable educational experience. Through Best Buy Teach Awards we provide much needed funds to schools so they can purchase technology for their students. Since 2003 Best Buy has awarded over $17 million in Best Buy Teach Awards to benefit more than 6,000 schools.
Educators must apply online between July 1 and September 30.
To learn more visit www.BestBuy.com/Teach
Best Buy Scholarships
At Best Buy, we believe community service and volunteerism are equally important. That’s why the Best BuyScholarship Program rewards students for all of their homework; inside and outside of the classroom. Scholarships are awarded to graduating high school seniors based on their academic achievements and their volunteer work. Since 1999 Best Buy has awarded $13 million in scholarships to more than 10,000 students.
Best Buy employees or their dependents are eligible to apply.
Students must apply online between January 1 and February 15 and winners are announced in May
Toys for Teens
Support the Best Buy Toys for Teens program and together we can change a mind, a holiday and an outlook.
Toys for Teens is a Best Buy program run in partnership with the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation. Together, we created Toys for Teens in 2001 to provide gifts for teens who were often overlooked during the holiday season. The program's goal is to highlight the need for holiday gifts appropriate for older children.
Donations to Toys for Teens are used by the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation to purchase gifts for older children. Although Best Buy is a proud supporter of the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, Best Buy does not handle the distribution of those gifts. Individuals or organizations wanting to receive assistance should contact their local Toys for Tots coordinator. For more information about the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, or to find your local coordinator, visit www.toysfortots.org