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  • Nonprofit helps reunite homeless with family, friends through digital detective work

    March 25, 2019 |

    San Diego Union-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco

    The San-Francisco based organization Miracle Messages has helped to reunited around 200 people experiencing homelessness with friends and family using the internet and a small-but-dedicated group of staff. The team fields requests from people looking for information and the ability to re-connect with friends or family, than uses Facebook, Whitepages Premium, and more to track someone down and make the connection, although some cases are more difficult than others.

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  • This app is designed to get millennials addicted to giving

    March 19, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States

    A new charity app called Millie builds upon tested app dynamics like online payment services, gamification, and social networks to encourage millennials to give to charities and organizations of their choosing. Rather than the more typical one-off, peer-to-peer, reactive giving, Millie adds an element of matchmaking to philanthropy, similar to dating apps.

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  • New software to help KCPD identify crime risk areas

    March 19, 2019 |

    KSHB-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    In Kansas City, Missouri, the police department has been using crime data to strategically understand which areas require more resources. This model, which has been used since 2012 and has led to a 12% decrease in violent crimes, is being expanded upon. New technology called “risk-terrain modeling” helps police officers work more proactively to change environments, like lighting on certain corners, to prevent crime.

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  • How drones and satellite images are measuring the forests used for carbon offsets

    March 15, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    The technology company Pachama has developed a way to combine “satellite, drone, and lidar images” to estimate the size of trees and forests around the globe. Its founders were motivated by the carbon offset industry. If companies want to offset emissions, the rationale goes, it is better to know precisely where forests need to be restored. Pachama’s technology can do just that.

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  • Income Before: $18,000. After: $85,000. Does Tiny Nonprofit Hold a Key to the Middle Class?

    March 15, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A nonprofit in Queens trains low-income New Yorkers to work in successful tech companies. The program, which focuses on training folks without four-year degrees to provide access to higher wages, places graduates in the software engineering industry's top companies, like JP Morgan Chase and GrubHub.

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  • Citywide data partnership offers new ways to serve students

    March 14, 2019 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    The Kansas City school district and a group of local nonprofits are implementing a new software management system that will allow partners to access student data from a range of sources. The data-sharing agreement will paint a more holistic picture of students and, in the future, allow teachers and others to make informed interventions when appropriate.

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  • 3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here's how they did it

    March 11, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Abilene

    The national program Built for Zero is aiming to end veteran and chronic homelessness by using a comprehensive data set that allows for tracking of the homelessness situation day-by-day, along with a Housing First approach that emphasizes getting people into permanent housing before offering services for other issues. The work is spreading across the country, with more than 50 cities implementing some version of the same solution, although there are concerns for the privacy of people experiencing homelessness, as well as the sustainability of the solution.

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  • Scientists use mini-satellites in effort to save the world's coral reefs

    March 11, 2019 |

    CBS News |

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    Response Location: Australia, Cairns, Queensland

    As coral reefs around the world are threatened by warming waters, mini-satellites are collecting images each day from space that put together a more comprehensive picture of the problems. This saves scientists time, energy, and money, and it means resources can be better targeted to the reefs that need the most help.

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  • Does Baltimore Need a Crime-Tracking App?

    March 11, 2019 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Citizen, a crime-tracking app that first made an appearance in New York and California, has launched in Baltimore, Maryland, a city with a crime rate that has skyrocketed in recent years. Alerting community members to crime happening at specific locations via curation by city safety officials, the app aims to help people feel more informed and safer while complementing more traditional emergency services.

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  • Denver will allow smartphone voting for thousands of people (but probably not you)

    March 07, 2019 |

    The Denver Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    In the hopes of making voting more accessible, the city of Denver, Colorado will allow their international voters, a population of about 4,000, to vote electronically on an app called Voatz. Already used by about 144 voters in West Virginia during the 2018 election, Voatz uses blockchain technology, which stores user votes across encrypted servers. Though some have cited security concerns, many hope the voting app will replace the current more insecure digital method.

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