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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Teen Book Finder (iOS), developed by the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA), helps teens, parents, teachers, and librarians find the best books and media for teens. You can also create a special reading list, locate books in your local library, and share what you're reading with friends over social media.

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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. Liberating Ourselves Locally. One will be held in Berlin in August; the next U.S.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

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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. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. Apps can help make the world just a bit more accessible. Crowdfunding Help.

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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. If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

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Mobile-responsive design. Create Amazing looks, well, amazing on the big screen, but the landing page’s full-width layout and high-quality video loop still work just as well on tablets and mobile devices. In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day.