A Hearty Thank You!
We want to take a moment and thank the many kind and generous people who help us each and every day to take up the challenge to create a “new world order of things” for young people’s well being.
This is passion with a purpose work and we could not go it alone without our friends, family, co-workers, valued funders and volunteers. To all of you, we send a heartfelt thank you for your support.
We hope we’re making you proud too.
Yes, in some eyes this page is pure brag. But more than brag, we’re simply proud to let everyone know we’re tying to make a difference in the world for kids and we’re proud of the hard working folks who are helping us every single day.
April 2011
The PlumbBrain Guardian is launched in the iTunes Store. Visit us to learn more about this child safety application. Perfect for parents, grandparents and caregivers of young children!
February 2011
To combat the growing bullying epidemic, KidThrive and the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina launched on CBS Affiliate Houston’s Ch. 11’s the Deborah Duncan Great Day Houston Show two new additions to their award winning BrdsNBz Warm Line™ Text Messaging Platform: the Anti-Bullying Text Line™ and the QueeryQuery Text Line™.
January 2011
Strategic partner, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina’s award winning BrdsNBz Warm Text Line™ is recognized by the Council of State Governments as a leading innovation in the Southeastern United States.
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December 2010
KidThrive and the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina launches their first public-private partnership of the award winning BrdsNBz Text Messaging Warm Line™ Software-as-a-Service platform with the help of eZuku technical partners.
November 2010
KidThrive launches a fundraising campaign on Crowdrise - You Can Stop A Bully With Your Thumbs - to raise monies to support Queery Query™, an LGBTQ text line to provide answers to gay youth and their friends to help stop the epidemic of gay teen suicides.
October 2010
Strategic partner, Social Mobility, Inc. co-licenses their Social Mobility Guardian™ iPhone mobile application to KidThrive and OneSeventeen Media as a fundraising vehicle. This version of the app is called the PlumbBrain Guardian™. It will be available in the iTunes store in March 2011.
July 2010
KidThrive strategic partner, the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Campaign of North Carolina, wins the 2010 Healthy Teen Network’s Outstanding Emerging Innovation Award for their BrdsNBz Text Message Warm Line™.
June 2010
OneSeventeen Media and KidThrive launch the beta of their joint project, The Alien Lounge™ (TAL). TAL shares information and encourages discussion on topics of interest to teens such as Relationships, Technology, Bullying, Health, Teen Giving and Teen Culture.
May 2010
The Second Annual Young Minds Digital Times Film Competition announced its two Grand Prize winners - Andy Wood, "Doing Good" category Grand Prize winner, Spokane, WA and Buddy Walker, "Freeform Category" Grand Prize winner, Brandon, FL. You can see the 2009-2010 Grand Prize winners’ entries here.
May 2010
The Jay Hollyfield Foundation awards KidThrive $3,000 to help launch the QueeryQuery™ text messaging service for LGBTQ youth in Texas.
April 2010
KidThrive co-founders, Beth Carls and Amy Looper, worked with OutYouth in Austin for KidThrive’s first LGBTQ text line focus group. They accomplished their goal to learn more about gay teens+tweens interest in getting answers to their questions through an anonymous text messaging service.
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