Tech and Society

Today’s youth are growing up in a world that’s more connected by the day. This reality offers both unprecedented challenges and limitless potential. This program supports solutions that help youth build healthy relationships with technology that will help them thrive in the Digital Age. This program includes the Center for Digital Thriving, the Responsible Tech Youth Power Fund, and our Youth Voice in the Digital Age cohort.

If kids can build positive and purposeful relationships with technology, they can understand how it works, how it affects them, and how to use it to make their lives better. Encompassing issues like privacy, mental health, and youth activism, this program supports nonprofits that help youth navigate an increasingly connected world.

Tech and Society

Today’s youth are growing up in a world that’s more connected by the day. This reality offers both unprecedented challenges and limitless potential. This program supports solutions that help youth build healthy relationships with technology that will help them thrive in the Digital Age. This program includes the Center for Digital Thriving, the Responsible Tech Youth Power Fund, and our Youth Voice in the Digital Age cohort.

If kids can build positive and purposeful relationships with technology, they can understand how it works, how it affects them, and how to use it to make their lives better. Encompassing issues like privacy, mental health, and youth activism, this program supports nonprofits that help youth navigate an increasingly connected world.

Just launched: Center for Digital Thriving

New Research & Innovation Center at Harvard Graduate School of Education

Rapid advances in technology can generate feelings of anxiety, fear, and a loss of control. At the Center for Digital Thriving, they build on insights from those who know our networked world best: young people. The Center provides knowledge and tools that help young people—and all of us—redefine their relationships with technology. Instead of feeling controlled by or tethered to tech, they envision a world where people have digital agency: the ability to have meaningful choice, intentionality, and control over the way technology fits into our lives.

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Grant Partners

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Center for Digital Thriving

The Center for Digital Thriving is a research and innovation center housed at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and seeded by Susan Crown Exchange and Pivotal Ventures.

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Responsible Tech Youth Power Fund

The Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund is a first of its kind, collaborative philanthropic initiative that supports youth and intergenerationally led organizations.

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Blog Posts

Young Leaders in Technology Granted $2 Million to Create Safe and Inclusive Online Spaces 

We are thrilled to be a part of The Responsible Technology Youth Power Fund (RTYPF) which today announced our inaugural cohort of 26 youth-led initiatives receiving a total of $2 million to support their advocacy for …

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Defining Thriving in the Digital Age

Thriving as humans, according to Daniel J. Brown, co-author of Human Thriving: A Conceptual Debate and Literature Review, is simply “feeling good about life and yourself and being good at something.” Today, we know that many …

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Past Work

Today’s youth grow up in a world that’s changing by the day. Our Tech and Society partners helped young people thrive in this rapidly changing world by building positive and productive relationships with technology.

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