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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. iStudiez Pro.

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Meet Donna Callejon, Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Before GlobalGiving I spent a few years helping to build the Washington Area Women's Foundation - and that's when I started becoming a "student' of philanthropy. When we both got back to DC we got together , and he and Mari needed some help with some business development support. Can you tell me about your dogs?

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I then zipped down to DC for three days. I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Student privacy. They have over 100 visually impaired students enrolled, and want to do more for these students.

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