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Addressing Hunger Together: Submit Your Ideas for the Next Impact Labs

Saleforce Nonprofit

To date, Salesforce.org Impact Labs has rallied our community around housing and homelessness, equity in education, and climate justice to find ways technology can help amplify and expedite the vital work of those trying to eradicate these global problems. The obstacles we face do not exist in silos, and neither do the answers. Amy Guterman.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. At our first in-person design sprint*, the group challenged each other to bust orthodoxies that hold us back from reducing hunger.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. I also LOVE designing solutions and being a part of the creative process, especially with an experienced and passionate team.”.

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Integrating WordPress with Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

Similar to the CMS form tools, these tools use a GUI-based system for designing forms and mapping fields. . Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. Higher implementation level of effort.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. One group is working on a mural, while another was designing an LED sculpture. ReWrite Oakland.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. The department documented use, condition, and design of about a third of the commercial buildings. The data was compiled using service information from San Francisco homeless organizations.

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! The way forward is exciting – and you can bet better open data is at the core of this social enterprise. But, can it be done?

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