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How Tech is Helping to Combat Food Insecurity and Transform Healthcare

Saleforce Nonprofit

By: Kelsey Long, Project Policy Analyst for the Center for Vulnerable Populations in the Division of General and Internal Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. V4V is good for the community, driving money into the local economy. is contributed to the local economy — an estimated $3.15

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

In San Francisco, sometimes one can feel a bit cynical about the influx of frivolous technology with billion dollar valuations. They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit.

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Benetech Statistician Megan Price talks to local ASA chapter

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Megan Price I recently had the opportunity to present several of HRP’s projects to the local San Francisco chapter of the American Statistical Association (SFASA). Quite a few are hoping to volunteer for us in the future!

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SOS: Save Our Site! How Libraries Can Preserve Local Online History

Tech Soup

The IMLS recently awarded the Internet Archive's Archive-It service a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from its Continuing Education in Curating Collections program for the project Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives. About the Author. Image : Nicolae Cucurudza / Shutterstock.

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Sun Microsystems and San Francisco's McKinley Elementary School

Tech Soup

Sun Microsystems, a partner of TechSoup Global, recently embarked on a local donation project to address this at one elementary school in San Francisco. Here are some of the details of this great corporation-supporting-community project.

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Davos Codes: Connecting Students’ Passion for Their Planet with Technology

Saleforce Nonprofit

To meet the growing demand for environmental education and technology use in the context of sustainability, our Davos Codes programme established a Climate Action Lab at Davos Middle School in 2020 and expanded it globally just one year later with additional Climate Action Labs in Bangalore, Tokyo, and San Francisco.

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Getting Social with Your Local Nonprofit Tech Community

Tech Soup

Our **San Francisco** group curates a list of [tech for good experiences each month]([link] --> Upcoming NPTech Events. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.