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The combined experiences of KidThrive.org co-founders Lisa Parker, Beth Carls, Amy Looper and Mary Schenck-Ross provide the foundation for KidThrive’s success as a hybrid enterprise. As seasoned social venture entrepreneurs in the non-profit, philanthropy and for-profit worlds, the co-founders and their dedicated core team (some of whom have worked with the founders for as long as a dozen years) share undeniable passion and commitment to improving the world for kids.
The KidThrive team is fully versed in philanthropy, social media and utilizing the power of business for social good.
This funding opportunity is for those who want to be allies for youth. KidThrive.org will provide key information from the youth community to those who advocate for change on behalf of kids. The trends we uncover will be reported and shared with those in the non-profit community domestically and internationally who can use that information to directly empower youth to not only survive but thrive.
KidThrive.org’s experienced management team and board of directors ensure that our hybrid engagement remains in kids’ best interest as well as the global public’s interest through transparent sharing of best practices to help kids. Designed to inform all sectors about kids’ needs, ideas and challenges, we recognize that this new convergence of information, free from any market agenda, demands care and the utmost responsibility.
Lisa Parker
Co-Founder and Executive Director KidThrive.org
Danny Perry
Executive Director
TechCorp Texas
Coy Tow
Regional Sales Director
Sava Senior Healthcare
Lisa Parker, Co-Founder
Executive Director
KidThrive.org
Through KidThrive’s Youth Advisory Board, we’re in a unique position to tap thousands of tweens’ and teens’ opinions on a variety of topics they view as important to their daily lives. Our Youth Advisory Board is as diverse as the local to global communities the kids themselves live in.
One example of a project we are currently working on with our youth advisors is the Young Minds Digital Times Film Competition through a core subset group of kids participating in the 2009 - 2010 competition across the United States.
As relentless allies for youths’ needs, we are dedicated to listening to their point of view and are equally committed to delivering services based on their customer feedback to support them through their growing up years.
Therefore, KidThrive’s Youth Advisory Board plays an important role in the projects we believe to be important to bring to local communities directly where kids live for maximum measurable impact–for and with them.
Through our collective networks KidThrive.org has a wide variety of professional advisors readily available to tap for any need at any given moment. Through this diverse group of professionals - many of whom are moms, dads, aunts, uncles and caring adults with a commitment to see that our youth have what they need to be socially and emotionally healthy - KidThrive seeks the wisdom and advice of this group on an as needed basis.
OUR MISSION
Using the power of social
media to gather relevant infor-mation from kids’ points of view, we empower local and global advocates to help youth not only survive their growing up years
but to thrive as caring and productive adults.
Lisa has over 25 years of experience in philanthropy and nonprofit management with a special focus on the needs of children domestically and internationally. She has served as president and executive director of the Lawrence Welk Foundation since 1997 and participated on the board since 1984.
Lisa brings a depth of skill and knowledge to KidThrive.org that insures the mission is in good and capable hands.
In addition to her work with the Welk Foundation, her experience has included managing and consulting nonprofits focus on youth empowerment and consulting with both corporate and family foundations. She speaks extensively on issues related to youth and family philanthropy for the Council on Foundations, the National Center for Family Philanthropy, Northern California Grantmakers and San Diego Grantmakers.
As a mother of two, she is particularly passionate about helping families nurture the philanthropic impulse in future generations and advises families on raising charitable children.
Mary Schenck-Ross, Co-Founder
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer
OneSeventeen Media
Jaclyn Bell, YMDT Director
Director of Community Content
OneSeventeen Media
