Tech Soup
MARCH 10, 2014
This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Recently, CTA conducted a study on mobile use by the homeless population of Santa Clara County (where CTA is located). An Opportunity to Learn. What CTA Uncovered.
Tech Soup
JUNE 10, 2013
San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. One interesting challenge was creating a database of bicycle rack locations throughout the islands. Using tweets' GPS, the database can then track where the rack is. freespace], San Francisco.
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Tech Soup
OCTOBER 2, 2017
San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly).
Tech Soup
JULY 29, 2014
High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? 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. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 20, 2009
It's taking place this year in San Francisco from April 26-28th. The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter!
Non Profit Quarterly
JUNE 14, 2019
May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 16, 2018
We have to realize that our questioner is asking us a question they don’t realize they are asking; they are asking how a database can help their community! A database! Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information.
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