Picture celebrity benefits, but with teenage singers, artists, comedians, dancers, filmmakers, musicians, basketball players, inventors and more as the stars!
100% of profit from sponsorships will fund programs for racial equality, coronavirus relief, LGBTQ youth, poverty, animal welfare, education, climate change, school safety, foster care, adoption and more.
Can you imagine their pride when these teens raise $millions? You can help make that happen!
Whether you use your social platform to help build massive virtual audiences, participate in the shows themselves, or help them raise funds for specific causes, the more celebrities who participate, the more sponsors will sign up! Here are a few examples of how you may wish to help lead this movement, we'd love your ideas too!
1. Help get the word out!
- Use your social platform to encourarage students to participate and fans to come cheer for them
- Record a selfie video and tell them you're cheering for them! (See Kristen Chenoweth's example)
2. Participate (via pre-recorded content) in weekly benefit shows
Here are lots of ideas!
- Provide video content or photos from when you were a teen for the "Name the Celebrity" segment- talk about your experience
- Broadly introduce your specific category's segment (country music, dance, film making, science, theatre, fashion, comedy, etc.). Provide a personal message if you'd like.
- Participate in media interviews
- Select your favorite entries from a short list and drop in on video interviews when we inform them you chose them; record a video introduction for their episode appearance
- Watch a selection of excellent entries and record your real-time reactions and feedback (imagine how awesome this would be for them!)
- Conduct and record a remote (monitored) mentoring session with one or more teens that you select
- Perform with teens you select! (pre-recorded of course!)
- Do you have more ideas? We're all ears!
3. Help Them Champion Specific Causes
In addition to submitting entries to the broader showcase, teens can submit artwork, music, dance, or writings related to different causes to be featured in their respective benefit shows.
You could:
Use your social platform to promote the specific episode
Provide video content or present the segment to help expand awareness and raise funds
- Participate in media interviews
Help get sponsors, contribute prizes to fundraising sweepstakes, and/or contribute to the Youth Impact Foundation
4. Provide inspirational, entertaining and/or educational video content for the benefit shows or long term online use
- Talk about your high school/teenage experience, your path to success
- Record a behind the scenes look at your past or current projects
- Educate teens about how hard you work, where you find inspiration, your warm up exercises, practice routines, etc.
- Walk them through how-to's with examples from your work
- Host a (monitored) online hangout and answer their questions
Want to Really Dive in?
Be the champion of your category nationwide
(e.g. theatre, dance, photography, basketball, etc.)
We'll ask you to participate in the nationwide finale (hopefully we will be able to gather at that time!) and introduce all of the finalists in your category. Also, think of ways you help make this online experience one the students (and millions of fans!) will never forget, and how can you help them raise more money?
- Recruit more celebrities
- Host fundraising sweepstakes
- Help secure sponsors, engage media, talent agencies, labels, studios, etc.
- Want to make it a competition with other categories? We can do that!
Lead the movement in your home state
- Join/lead an online pep squad (e.g. Facebook group!) for your home state!
- Encourage other celebrities from your state to join you and make an awesome team (Did someone's name just pop up in your mind?) We can def. have fun bringing geographic pride into the shows!
Rally your own high school alma mater!
Encourage students from your own high school to participate in the showcase, offer personal support or educational content. We're picturing lots of love here, and lots of inspirational content.
