Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

The organization is currently fundraising to build an online hackathon and social app collaboration center. SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is a New York City-based organization that provides services and advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders. Sage CyberCenters. Lesbians Who Tech.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? This was the third Social Good Apps Breakfast organized by Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Jason stressed that the city wants residents and organizations to access the data on OpenDataSF and provide feedback so staff can continue to develop and improve the site. Here's how it works: incoming reports from the community are verified by a dispatcher monitoring the Concrn dashboard. Check out the website today.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Just tell us a little bit about yourself and we will do the leg work. Ready to enter? a) In General.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Over the last year, the work of Traveling Postcards keeps crossing my path, so I asked its founder, Caroline Lovell, to share with us: How Traveling Postcards works The path that brought her to this work Her favorite Traveling Postcards success story How we can get involved with Traveling Postcards I've posted her answers below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2009

AARP California Twitter Account Last week at the WeAreMedia Workshop, someone asked a question about babyboomers and social media use. And even Silent Generation internet users are competitive when it comes to email (although teens might point out that this is proof that email is for old people). I answered no.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In California. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. We''ve focused on farmworker communities--there are so many kids in these communities throughout California. It thrives. In a Community Science Workshop.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. There's not a lot of work in pinball, and I had a deep secondary interest in unschooling and free-choice learning. I didn't really care what kind of museum I went to as long as I could work for a rock star.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

As part of 14LCS, we at NTEN were excited to recognize a few individuals and organizations who have gone above and beyond to push the limits, redefine the way we approach social impact, and help chart a course for all of us to follow. These open source applications are helping to make government work better for everyone.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Britt Bravo: Hi, welcome to the Big Vision Podcast, where we talk with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change. So, we created the organization, sort of, to really use food as a tool for social change that we could really leverage to address multiple issues. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

I worked in that field for 20 years, and I was writing grants at times there too. When I think about all the important work you all are doing. And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. So clearly, there is a lot of money out there for all the organizations there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2005

Last weekend I went to a great house party/fundraiser for Art in Action camp , a 10-day cultural boot camp for budding teen activists. Most of the participants are between the ages of 17-25, working class and youth of color. Van Jones did the ask for the event. The panic, not knowing what could happen next, was physical.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2006

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. We don't have that yet, and so that's something we're working towards. It can't happen fast enough."

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

When you work in the field of corporate social responsibility (CSR) like I do, there’s a lot to be happy about. 2016 took us into the teens, and 2017 ended with participation just shy of 23% (made even more significant that national median participation rates have not changed much over the past few years). And guess what?

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