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Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Youth Through App Development

Tech Soup

Organizations are helping to facilitate these conversations and learnings globally. is an organization based out of Oakland, California. of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning global. Youth Radio's mission is to connect Oakland-based young people with pro developers and entrepreneurs to.

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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

We'll offer an online program for change, support a global community of practice, and keep expanding the program based on community input. The model we landed on was movement building. We plan to fuel a distributed Change Network of organizations growing OF/BY/FOR ALL together.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The Global Kids Online Leadership Organization partnered with the New York Public Library to create a mobile game called NYC Haunts for the iPhone. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

Have Fun - Do Good

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

Non Profit Quarterly

Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies. The global financial crisis in 2008 also led labor unions to re-imagine new partnerships with various worker cooperatives, both in and out of the platform economy. million on political lobbying, and another $1.8

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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