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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

Tech Soup

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. LGBT MD was showcased at the most recent Caravan Studios Social Good Apps Breakfast.

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Can You Use Your Own Photos on Your Website? Maybe Not

Tech Soup

Images bring life and interest to anything. Teen Retreat. " IBME gets both the teen's and parent's signature. One undeniable trend is that people are increasingly attracted to images and videos and much less interested in unadorned text. But can you get in trouble by posting images of people without their consent?

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

Tech Soup

She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. These stories are then collected on each pet's profile page at the shelter's website, resulting in a scrolling diary of the pet's life. Crowdfunding Help. It has been covered by TechCrunch, The Baltimore Sun , CBS News , and more.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. We do a lot of work with teens in the summertime. It's not just for West Oakland; it's for young people throughout the Bay Area. We have a program called, "Collards and Commerce."

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Solutionary Women: Nola Brantley of the Scotlan Youth and Family Center

Have Fun - Do Good

Nola is as old as the Center she works for, thirty, and over the past two years, she has become an expert on sexually exploited minors in Oakland and has watched as the population grows. When I asked her why teenage prostitution is so prevalent in Oakland, she said, "Because they can do it here. It can't happen fast enough."

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Are the Arts Habit-Forming?

Museum 2.0

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. Sometimes these innovations are woven into the institutional core programming, as at the redesigned, highly interactive Oakland Museum of California. How do you form an arts habit?

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