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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it.

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Greater Washington Give to the Max Day Training Event

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C. Their use of Facebook was instrumental in winning Sears’ Dads Making a Difference Contest.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.