“Ideas worth Spreading” are only as good as the opportunities to actively engage in them. To that end, TEDxYouth@TampaBay offers this page as a way to connect with all the great presenters who have shared their insights, ideas, projects and programs over the last three years. Want to do more than just talk? Here’s your opportunity to act!
From TEDxYouth@TampaBay 2010
- CreativeShare : The purpose of all CreativeShare, a project of artist Bob Barancik, endeavors is to promote a more innovative, open, and humane society through interdisciplinary collaboration.
- Make a Chimp Smile: The brainchild of then elementary school student Brandon Wood, Make a Chimp Smile aims to protect the world’s Great Ape population.
- Southern Energy Network: Shared by then Florida organizer, Dan Cannon, the Southern Energy Network facilitates state networks, trains student leaders, and builds the grassroots student movement in the South for a clean energy future.
- Code Green Community: Founded by Eric Stewart, Code Green Community is a collection of individuals pursuing a common goal of growing a local resilient and sustainable community in the greater Tampa Bay area. We come together with specific tasks of collaboration on sustainable projects both individually and as a group to transition our community away from fossil fuel use. We support and promote the Transition movement.
- One Student.org: Organized by Kelly Addington and Becca Tieder, One Student is a non-profit organization that provides cutting edge programs, resources and opportunities that engage students to create social change to reduce sexual violence.
From TEDxYouth@TampaBay 2011
- Teen Edge: Founded by Kellie Lightbourne, Teen Edge urges young people to not just survive but to thrive. Armed with the right tools and a “Live with Power” attitude.
- Seraph Foundation: Founded by Cesar Hernandez, the Seraph Foundation was created to give students at the university invaluable experience working for a non-profit organization. The ultimate goal of the foundation is to form a catalyst and inspire others to help change the world. The way to do this is by one act of benevolence at a time.
- Shoe Giver of Tampa: Jacob Rice is the Shoe Giver of Tampa, and his foundation seeks to provide new shoes to children in need.
From TEDxYouth@TampaBay 2012
- Hoola for Happiness, founded by Sarah Page and Carissa Caricata,is a non-profit organization based in Tampa that uses hoola hoops to spread joy to children in impoverished countries as well as hoop locally with different nonprofits, events, churches and youth groups.
- Redefining Refuge , founded by Natasha Nascimento, is dedicated to fighting for women and children who have been victims of sexual abuse, with a prevailing emphasis on the abolition of the domestic sex trafficking of minors. Through strong community alliances and public awareness education, Redefining Refuge strives to replace devastation with restoration, oppression with freedom, and despair with great hopefulness.
- StudiYo For Kids , founded by Davida Bowen, is housed within the library of HOPE Community Center providing a full service music and film recording studio for youth.
