Keep Your Zing
7 Rules I Live By
The signature youth empowerment program built on the seven rules — identity, courage, self-control and growth.
Keep Your Zing Foundation
Keep
Your
ZING.
You were born with a Zing. We’re here to help you keep it.
Nzinga Collins · Founder
The idea
What is your ZING?
Your Zing is your Zest, Drive, Life & Sparkle — the part of you that makes you uniquely you.
Life may challenge it.
People may question it.
Bullying may try to diminish it.
But your Zing belongs to you.
Protect Your Zing
Bullying prevention, identity, confidence, self-worth and emotional resilience.
Develop Your Zing
Courage, self-control, communication, knowledge, organization and personal growth.
Share Your Zing
Leadership, service, positive influence and helping others protect their Zing.
Then · Age 12
How to Keep Your Zing: 7 Rules I Live By!
Now · Age 18
College student. Same Zing. New Season.
Meet Nzinga
She wrote it at 12.
She’s living it at 18.
Nzinga Collins wrote “How to Keep Your Zing: 7 Rules I Live By!” as a young author after experiencing bullying. Now, at 18 and in college, she is still living the seven principles she first shared with other young people.
Meet NzingaThe framework
The 7 Rules
- Come Closer To God
- Be Courageous
- Don’t Be A Hothead
- Stop Ruffling Your Own Feathers
- Shhh... Stop Talking!
- Knowledge Is Power
- Get A Planner
The Original Edition
How to Keep Your Zing:
7 Rules I Live By!
By Nzinga Collins
The book that started the movement.
Original Edition
Written at age 12.
The College Edition
Same Zing. New Season.
Coming Soon
The College Edition
Same ZING.
New Season. #ZINGLIFE
At 12, Nzinga shared the rules that helped her Keep Her Zing. At 18, she is revisiting those same rules through the realities of college, independence, leadership, relationships, responsibility and becoming a young adult.
Programs
Building it in young people.
Zing Ambassadors
Youth leadership and peer influence. Students who model healthy peer culture and help others Keep Their Zing.
Keep Your Zing Day
A school or community activation day celebrating identity, confidence and positive peer culture.
Keep Your Child’s Zing
Parent education on supporting a young person’s identity, confidence and resilience.
Protect the Zing
Educator and youth-leader development for building cultures where young people can thrive.
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Sponsor a Zing
Help one more young person keep their Zing.
Your support helps expand access to books, educational resources, youth programming and leadership experiences.
Sponsor a Zing- Sponsor a Student
- Sponsor a Group
- Sponsor a Classroom
- Sponsor a School
- Community Partner
Zing Stories
What helps you keep your Zing?
Real stories from our community are coming soon. This space will feature reflections on what it takes to stay yourself.
Share Your Zing- Identity
- Confidence
- Courage
- Leadership
- Resilience
- Growth
- Bullying
- College
- Self-discovery