Chamber Honors Outstanding Small Businesses
May 15, 2013
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Outstanding area businesses earned honors Wednesday. The Greater Topeka Chamber of Commerce handed out its annual small business awards during a luncheon at Washburn University.Midland Care Connection won the Non-Profit Award of Distinction. The award for Minority and Women-Owned... Read more »
Zach Haney on the Dr.Stem Show
March 10, 2013
Click here to listen to the Dr.Stem show with there guest our founder Zach Haney. Zach Haney is a role model in becoming financially literate. He is the Founder of a nonprofit Community Service Organization called Teens Taking Action, Inc. Based in Topeka, KS, his organization has been serving hundreds... Read more »
Drive Now Text Later
January 24, 2013
Top Volunteer Teen Scholarship 2013
January 17, 2013
It’s nearly graduation and Teens Taking Action, Inc. is happy to be offering a $500 scholarship for the 2013-14 school years. Anyone who is graduating high school and planning to attend college is eligible for the scholarship. Note: You do not have had to volunteer with us on any projects. We will... Read more »
Teens clothing drive at Shawnee Heights
December 6, 2012
Topeka, KS. Teens Taking Action, Inc. is conducting a stay warm clothing drive this Winter, but specifically for teenagers in the Topeka community. The drive is being held at Shawnee Heights High School. Anyone looking to donate will need to drop the clothing off in the bin located within the lunch room.... Read more »
Our clothing swap will be here soon
September 4, 2012
Check out this video of an interview from Kansas First News talking aobut our clothing swap which will be here this coming Saturday at the SW YMCA from 4-7p.m. Click here to watch the video.
The back to school clothing swap
August 19, 2012
September 8th, from 4-7p.m. TTA will be holding a Back to School clothing swap, open to all high-school and young college students. The event will take place at the SW YMCA located at 3635 Southwest Chelsea; Topeka, KS 66614. The actual drive will start early for some high-schools including Shawnee Heights... Read more »
Rescue mission children go to the circus
August 4, 2012
On August 10th, 2012 all of the children from the Topeka Rescue Mission were able to go see the circus with their families. Not only did they see the circus but also got to eat lunch with the elephants. One employee from Feld Entertainment made a comment that she had to step away for a moment because... Read more »
Something Epic is going on Now!
May 1, 2012
The Teens Taking Action Epic Book Drive is going on now Last year TTA collected nearly 6,000 books and sent them to New Orleans after post Katrina. This year TTA will collect the books and keep them right here in the community. Books will be donated to local churches, schools, orgnizations and other... Read more »
Age doesn’t hold back teen entrepreneur
Talitha Martin, Metro Voice News
April 9, 2012
Zach Haney has a list of things to do on any given day. 1. Dream of future business plans 2. Gain national attention for local endeavors 3. Hop on the school bus and head to class. That is only a slight exaggeration, as Zach doesn’t actually ride the school bus anymore. Haney is a sophomore... Read more »

