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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education.

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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!?" Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. Read more online and buy your own copy today. And they turn their lives around.

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14LCS Idea Accelerator Pitches - Onward!

NTEN

Simple Phone - Jason Shim A centralized control panel that allows an organization to provision phone numbers to staff, eliminating need to issue second cell phones and allowing for bulk pricing; Useful for frontline workers who don''t want to carry two phones--and affordable. Collecting data on all user learning activity.

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