Contribute Voices:

Are you a school, educator or individual who works with kids who would like their voices heard? Are you an organization working with kids with a similar mission, or one who works with kids focusing on issues of Community, Education, Health & Wellness and Environment? Let Hear Me help amplify your kids' voices and support your overall efforts by creating a Hear Me Account. From here, select Contribute Voices and follow the next steps.

Promote Voices:

There are millions of kids who have valuable things to say, who want to be heard and who want to make a difference. We are a small team who cannot tackle this goal alone and need our communities and local businesses to get involved! If you are interested in promoting kids' voices and supporting our mission, create a Hear Me Account. From here, select Promote Voices and follow the next steps.

Become a Partner Organization:

Bringing together organizations unites our efforts and can help bring about bigger change for our youth. As a partnering organization, we will work together to create unique projects, to mutually support each other's missions, to distribute our kids stories and voices, to create community, social and political change, and to expand the voices of our youth. To become a partnering organization, create your own Hear Me Account. From here, select Partner Organization and follow the next steps.


What kind of partners is Hear Me looking for to help achieve their mission?

• Local Non-Profits and Organizations who want to amplify the voices of youth involved in their programs, and those who value Hear Me as a conduit to publicly support their overall mission and the goals they aim to achieve.
• Media Partners with roots in educational video production looking to develop ongoing workshops and to create project produced content with the Hear Me Youth throughout our region.
• Broadcast Partners, in both TV and Radio, who are looking to gather fresh content for reporting voiced through the Hear Me Youth of our region to improve local and regional newscasts with the ability to inspire social change. Broadcast partners can be both commercial and public.
• Community Leadership Partners, experts, activists and leaders who help serve and have the greatest impact on civic life in our region, as well as those who are equipped with the resources to inspire community good on behalf of youth voice. Such partners as city and county government, chamber of commerce, local businesses, school district administrators, etc.
• Social Venture Partners interested in providing capital investing in non-profits, with a socially oriented focus, to promote social change for communities and youth as well as to provide support to develop a more efficient, sustainable project.
• Government Partners, as an advocacy based project, centered around four areas of governmental influence (Community, Education, Health & Wellness, Environment), Hear Me can help voice, support and shape government's priorities and policies. Hear Me looks for government partners to plan ways to address community needs, create opportunities for service exchange, and to operate programs together to make improvements on behalf of our kids voices, helping to increase governments' ability to accomplish goals.

Volunteer:

Hear Me can't happen without its core partners and volunteers. Donating your time with Hear Me means that you are helping more kids be heard and make change. Volunteers should contact us or visit our profile page on Pittsburgh Cares for opportunities.


Volunteers can help with:

• Street teams
• Distributing media packets
• At story collection events like festivals, fairs and celebrations
• Can Pals And CanEX Building

Donate

Donating to Hear Me will help provide further support for the Hear Me Mission, allowing us to expand our reach, to work with more kids, to help fund innovative methods of spreading youth voices, and to drive Hear Me to a national level. To make a gift to Hear Me, create your own Hear Me Account. From here, select Donate and follow the next steps. Hear Me is a program of Carnegie Mellon University, a registered non-profit, and all donations are tax deductible.

Sponsor:

Hear Me's mission to broadcast our youth's voices allows for exciting opportunities to become involved as a sponsor. Our sponsors have the opportunity to increase their connection to today's youth and to offer a creative marketing investment to help support Hear Me as well as their business. This alliance provides equal value to both organizations. To become a sponsor, create your own Hear Me Account. From here, select Become a Sponsor and follow the next steps.