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Apps for Youth, By Youth

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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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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

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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

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Are photos that you take with your camera or phone yours or your organization's property to use as you wish? Teen Retreat. " IBME gets both the teen's and parent's signature. But can you get in trouble by posting images of people without their consent? You can indeed. Rules of Thumb for Using Photos of People.

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Nonprofits and App Developers Combine Forces for Community Change

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Built over a weekend with a friend, Statement is a simple app that allows a person to type what he or she wants to say into her or his phone and show another person the text in a large font. She wanted to create something that teens and adults could use and that was also free. Crowdfunding Help.

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Hospital Volunteering: 3 Things You Didn't Know & How the Web Can Help

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Hospitals need to supplement the traditional "pink lady," with volunteer opportunities for teens, baby boomers, and people in their 20s, 30s, 40s. For example, after our conversation, I checked out the volunteer opportunities at one of my local hospitals, the Children's Hospital and Research Center in Oakland.

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Brahm Ahmadi, People's Grocery, Podcast Transcript

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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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