Tech Soup
NOVEMBER 3, 2011
awareness and skills development in children, teens, and young adults. Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. As a 2010 winner.
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? She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. The Acres app helps support community wellness by connecting urban farmers with land for lease.
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Tech Soup
OCTOBER 17, 2012
As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project.
Tech Soup
JUNE 21, 2015
Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.
Tech Soup
MARCH 29, 2015
For example, you could take a picture of a gathering from the back of the room or just a part of the body (two hands petting a rescued dog or digging a community garden, for example). Teen Retreat. " IBME gets both the teen's and parent's signature. For pictures that you use for current news stories.
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 6, 2009
Communities need to band together to support their local hospitals to fill in where the traditional resources are not enough by providing service, providing funding, advocating and governing (on Boards of Trustees). There is some element of this human condition that requires a personal touch."
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 21, 2006
The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. Heart disease is the number one killer in the community, and diabetes is number two, and if you combine all of the diet-related chronic diseases that are in the community, it makes up over half of the mortality rate.
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