We empower and equip youth to create their best lives and a better world.
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Big Thought retweeted
28 Jul 2025
🚨 Partnership Alert: @bigthought pepelwerk 🚨
We’re teaming up to bring our AI Career Assistant to the youth Big Thought serves, helping them plan strong futures through personalized career guidance.
Together, we’re making career dreams more accessible than ever. It’s one more step toward a future where no young person is left behind. 🌍
#CareerReadiness #YouthEmpowerment #FutureOfWork #BigThought #pepelwerk
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Big Thought retweeted
20 Mar 2025
The @SamsClub initiative, "Unlock Potential," has given $3 million in grants to @bigthought & @SHRMFoundation to support building stronger pathways to employment for young people from underserved communities, with a focus on opportunity youth.
Learn more: bit.ly/4iUloCu
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Big Thought retweeted
24 Feb 2025
Join us and @bigthought this Thursday at noon ET for a webinar about preparing and supporting the OST workforce! impact.bigthought.org/event/…
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Big Thought retweeted
19 Oct 2024
We completed an incredible journey discussing the career and life-enhancing power of emotional intelligence with the young men from The Fellowship Initiative, a program of @bigthought.
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Big Thought retweeted
20 Jul 2024
So glad to see such great art with great youth and a great leader and teacher. @bigthought is a proud partner with @TBAAL and Mr. King. Great showcase!
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Big Thought retweeted
20 Jun 2024
What does fully integrating #AI in #education look like? In a new #GettingSmartBlog, Mason Pashia shares how @desotoisdeagles, @Knomadix & @BigThought are pioneering a district-wide AI system to personalize & enhance learning. Explore the revolution: gettingsmart.com/2024/06/20/…
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Big Thought retweeted
17 May 2024
Discover the power of belief in the latest installment of our Voices on Teaching series featuring Byron Sanders, the President and CEO of @BigThought, and the teacher who unlocked his potential and changed the course of his life.
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Big Thought retweeted
16 Apr 2024
Byron Sanders, @bigthought joined by Kara May, @ArtInMotionChi; @GholdyM, @thisisUIC; & Grammy Academy Award-winning artist @Common for a discussion on engaging opportunity justice-involved youth in dreaming big & planning for their futures! #asugsvsummit #IAmFreeToDream
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10 Apr 2024
Excited to be a partner for Earthx2024 Congress of Conferences, April 22-26 at Hilton Anatole, Dallas, TX! Experts from various fields will gather for this week-long event. Use our code BIGTHOUGHT20 to get 20% off on passes. Register at earthx.org to join us!
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Big Thought retweeted
2 Apr 2024
🌟A conversation with @common at #ASUGSVSummit!
With 5.5M disconnected 728k justice-involved youth in the US, we must illuminate pathways to empower their dreams. Join this special panel to hear from experts & learn about a new campaign by Common ASA. bit.ly/3Tzp3e3
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Big Thought retweeted
29 Mar 2024
Founded in 1987, Big Thought is a Dallas based organization that is dedicated to youth empowerment 🥳👏
As an impact nonprofit, Big Thought closes the opportunity gap by equipping all youth in marginalized communities with the skills and tools they need to imagine and create their best lives and a better world.
To learn more, follow @bigthought and visit their website by clicking the link below 👇 🔗
bigthought.org/
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Big Thought retweeted
25 Mar 2024
At ASA, we're committed to uplifting other organizations that focus on improving #careerreadiness outcomes for teens from underserved communities. That's why we've awarded grants to 16 youth-serving orgs. Keep reading to learn who our grantees are...
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Big Thought retweeted
11 Mar 2024
We want to thank youth panelists at reDesign, @bigthought and The History Co:Lab for leading the session on transforming education, “Can Young People Solve the Post-Pandemic Learning Equation,” at @SXSWEDU!
Listen to the full session here! ➡️ tinyurl.com/mwtacccc
#SXSWEDU24
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1 Mar 2024
We’re thrilled to announce this support from @NBAFoundation. This investment will support opportunities and experiences where youth utilize their voices and creativity, learn about themselves, and build skills they'll carry for the rest of their lives. nba.com/news/nba-foundation-…
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Big Thought retweeted
22 Feb 2024
Thank you, James Gonzalez (Iterative Health) and @joe_posada, for sharing your candid insights with the scholars from @UpliftEducation and participants in The Fellowship Initiative (Dallas), a program of @jpmorgan and @bigthought. Hearing from local business leaders from
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Big Thought retweeted
16 Feb 2024
A BIG thank you 🏆
CBAA staff members & Board member Gillian Breidenbach presented the inaugural Community Champion Award to @BigThought as one of our 2023-24 Cotton Bowl Foundation grants recipients!
Big Thought has been making a big impact since 1987.
#LikeNoOther
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Big Thought retweeted
16 Feb 2024
Chris Smith of @BostonBeyond, Lela Bell Wesley of @BigThought, Knellee Bisram of @PrimeTimePBC and Heather Schwartz of @RANDCorporation reflect on ways to foster belonging and life skills in #OST programs at the @BSHConference #BeyondSchoolHours
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Big Thought retweeted
22 Jan 2024
This investment in #TheAchievery and collaborators like @summerlearning, @HHFoundation, @FarmwrkrJustice, @CampFireNHQ, @CityYear, @thinktogether and @bigthought will support summer learning and out-of-school programs to close education gaps that emerged in the pandemic.
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18 Jan 2024
It's official – we'll be at @SXSWEDU 2024! 🎉 Our panel with @reDesignLLC and @TheHistoryCoLab will highlight youth as the design thinkers needed to reimagine the future of education
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Big Thought retweeted
18 Oct 2023
At our “Meet the Inventors” panel at @Aurora_Inst, @Klbobroff of @NISNetwork, Steve Heath of FABx/@FabNewport, and Greg MacPherson of @BigThought shared their journeys and insights in collaborating with us to set strategies for evolving ecosystem development within their work.
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