Amanda Quraishi: Fighting Homelessness and Poverty With Social Media
Amanda Quraishi embeds herself with the homeless people her charity serves and chronicles the experience.
Ben Sawyer: Getting Serious About Using Video Games to Solve Problems
Ben Sawyer works to create games that help solve problems in education, health care, national defense, and corporate management.
Rey Faustino: Using Education to Fight Poverty and Unlock Opportunities
Rey Faustino’s nonprofit built an extensive online database of service organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Simeon Oriko: Teaching Africa’s Youths About the Power of Technology
Simeon Oriko teaches digital literacy and also works on projects to make it easier for Kenyans to find schools, health care, and monitor crime trends and election issues.
Elizabeth Davidson and Maurya Couvares: Helping Teenagers Get Tech Skills
The co-founders of Scripted train people with technology skills to work with high-school students in Harlem.
Madhura Bhat: Encouraging Entrepreneurs to Improve Health Care
Madhura Bhat started Health for America to find young people with radical ideas and then pairing them with health-care experts and community leaders.
Arlene Ducao: Mapping Global Hotspots
Arlene Ducao helped found a group that is using infrared technology to help people solve ecological problems.
Rich Schwerdtfeger: Helping People Who Are Blind or Deaf Get Information Online
As chief technology officer of accessibility at IBM Software, Rich Schwerdtfeger works to make it possible for people who can’t see or hear to use the Internet.
Gene Gurkoff: Making Every Mile Matter
As founder of Charity Miles, Gene Gurkoff created an application for mobile phones that helps people raise money for charity when they walk, run, or bike.
Elena Lagoudi: Developing Tools to Document Art and People’s Life Stories in Greece
Elena Lagoudi left her job in London to return to Greece during the financial crisis because she wanted to develop tools to protect cultural treasures.
Social Interest Solutions, a nonprofit technology group, is testing a mobile version of a tool that lets people determine their eligibility and apply for government benefits.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Technology Leader Steps Down
After 10 years at the Nonprofit Technology Network—the past five leading the group, commonly known as NTEN—Holly Ross has stepped down as executive director.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Database Indexes Nonprofit Research
The merger of two online resources has created a new database of more than 11,000 reports, case studies, and other documents on more than 40 causes.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Awards Honor Creative Technology Use
The Tech Museum of Innovation has presented its annual awards to honor the creative use of technology to benefit society.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Library Promotes Digital-Media Skills
The San Francisco Public Library wants young people to be active creators of digital media, not just passive consumers.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Starts Software Company
The Family Service Agency of San Francisco is now selling the software it developed to track client information.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor