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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Windows Phone) is a point-of-care smartphone application that addresses child mortality rates by lack of detection and availability of treatment for malaria. Khan Academy (Windows Phone, iPad) is a nonprofit on a mission to change education. Political Engagement and Activism. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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Mobile Tech Connects Kids to Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Referrers include staff from nonprofits, community centers, public libraries, and other organizations that work with youth during the summer months. Range also pulls in data about each meal provider, such as its hours of operation, its phone number, and a brief description. " How Libraries Can Use Range. Android devices.

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Free Webinar: Using Mobile Technologies for Outreach and Education - July 16

Tech Soup

You keep hearing how mobile phones are a great way to reach a large audience of people, but how can your nonprofit or library use this technology, and where do you start? Join Kami Griffiths on Thursday, July 16 for a webinar about using mobile technologies for outreach and education.

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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28.

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace is also the number one accessed social networking website on mobile devices today. Sadly, at the same time, libraries and schools across America were blocking MySpace, but allowing Facebook. MySpacers are incredibly loyal.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms. Crowdfunding Help.

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Igniting the 15NTC stage at lightning speed

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Dyer, Volunteer Program Coordinator, Multnomah County Library. American teens still send more SMS than any other type of message, and send more SMS than any other age group. Community mobilization and engagement in this century defaults to high-end digital, and in so doing, excludes the 100 million Americans without a Smartphone.

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