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Apps for Youth, By Youth

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Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Youth Radio's Mobile App Lab connects Oakland, CA-based youth with professional app developers and entrepreneurs to propose, develop, and market apps that serve community needs.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Mother's Day for Peace

Have Fun - Do Good

The same people who produced "Going Within", 49th Parallel Productions , have also created Not Just a Number , a community journalism project for The Oakland Tribune which focuses on the topic of violence and violence prevention. Last year Oakland's homicide rate reached a five-year high of 148 people.

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News by the Spoonful: TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions

Tech Soup

We recently polled our TechSoup employees and NetSquared community on what they see as looming large in 2015. " And then there's the personal causes funding service, Go Fund Me. He recommends the Oakland-based charity Digital Detox and perhaps a stay at Campgrounded in the California redwoods. Digital Refugees.

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Developers and Nonprofits Come Together to Make Apps for Change

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He's currently working on an event planner module, which I can see being a huge asset for nonprofits or community organizers, such as organizers of our NetSquared groups. Goalie for Mission Asset Fund. Next up, Eddie Freeman presented his app, Goalie for the Mission Asset Fund (MAF). Reporting Problems. Supporting Youth.

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Fair Trade Certified: An Interview with Paul Rice of TransFair USA

Have Fun - Do Good

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. For more information about TransFair USA go to www.transfairusa.org Britt Bravo also blogs at Have Fun * Do Good , NetSquared and BlogHer.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. So we started in our small apartment in Oakland, it was about 750 square feet.

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