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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Apps for Good "is an award-winning course where young people learn to create imaginative mobile apps that change their world." greater access for youth and foster empowerment through skills. The Future of Apps in the Hands of Today's Teens.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. Emily started by honing in on local teens' assets: creativity, activist energy, desire to make a difference, desire to be heard, free time in the afternoon. Subjects to Change was born. Not your voice.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

." ~ Caroline Lovell, Founder, Traveling Postcards Traveling Postcards facilitates the creation of handmade art postcards that are hand delivered all over the world to bringing awareness and voice to women and girls whose lives have suffered from isolation, violence, or repression. Each card is a piece of art in my mind. Each card is unique.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

NTEN

If we really want to unleash the full power of social networks and online fundraising to advance change, we need to do more. Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. Digital Activism?

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, hosted a breakfast in San Francisco's Chinatown neighborhood for nonprofits, app developers, and anyone interested in changing the world for the better. Bedsider was started as support network operated by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Image 1: SF OpenData.