Helpline Adds Text-Messaging Option
The National Dating Abuse Helpline, which for the last five years has allowed young people to talk to trained peer counselors by telephone or via online chat, has added another technology to its repertoire: text messaging.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology for Good: 10 People Who Are Making a Difference
A growing number of social entrepreneurs and academics are developing technology to combat social problems, bridge gaps between the haves and have-nots, and advocate for change.
Mobile Media Studio Creates Moving Images
Laura Deutch created Messages in Motion to help nonprofits in Philadelphia make short videos about important neighborhood concerns.
Making the Internet More Accessible
Judy Brewer directs a project that developed guidelines for how Web sites can best make their content available to people with disabilities.
Offering Online Learning to Mexico’s Poor
Aleph Molinari has created 70 education centers that have helped more than 200,000 people improve their skills.
Contest to Create Social-Good Simulation
A Maryland company that develops interactive training simulations is holding a competition to put its technology to work for social change.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Creating a Foothold for Women in Technology
Izzy Johnston teaches Web coding and other skills to women and also volunteers to help nonprofits develop Web sites.
Bringing Digital Media to Impoverished Neighborhoods
Jacquie Jones started Public Media Corps to expand the use of technology in poor neighborhoods.
Humberto Pérez: Giving Students a Chance to Learn the Business of Art
Humberto Pérez is helping his students prepare a film to be judged at the Cannes International Film Festival.
By Derek Lieu
Contributor
José Gómez-Márquez: Helping Doctors in Poor Countries Improvise
Mr. Gómez-Márquez created the Medical Devices and Invention Kit, which gives doctors in developing countries an inexpensive way to deliver medication or diagnose illnesses.
By Derek Lieu
Contributor
Rebecca Manson: Restoring Memories in the Wake of Japan’s Disaster
After last year’s tsunamis, Ms. Manson found thousands of dirty and damaged photos. She decided to recruit volunteers to work with her to clean and restore them.
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Josh Nesbit: Improving Health Care Through Mobile Technology
Medic Mobile develops text-message and cellphone applications to improve health-care communications in poor regions of Africa and Asia.
By BRENNEN JENSEN
Contributor
Promoting Equality Through Social Media
Brian Elliot created Friendfactor, a social-media effort that rallies straight people to advocate for gay marriage and other efforts to fight discrimination against gay people.
Fundraising-Software Provider Blackbaud to Acquire Its Rival Convio
Consolidation of businesses sparks fears about the choices that will be available to charities that conduct online appeals.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
An Alternative to .org? Say Hello to .ngo
A proposed .ngo domain could give nonprofits another way to show their legitimacy to online donors.
By Derek Lieu
Contributor
Project Highlights Human Needs in Slums
Urban Survivors, a new multimedia project, seeks to highlight the urgent humanitarian crisis and medical needs of people living in slums.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor