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Now approved in LA, Abodu’s backyard homes can now go from contract to completion in as little as 30 days

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Beyond the cities where Adobu’s ADUs have received pre-approval, the company has built across California in cities ranging from, Palo Alto, Millbrae, Orange County, LA and Oakland. The interior of an Abodu home.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well. Another interesting concept was a mobile tech shop for homeless shelters. ReWrite Oakland. Image 3: ReWrite Oakland, Caravan Studios. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking.

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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. Liberating Ourselves Locally. Lesbians Who Tech. event will be in New York City in October.

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Feeding the Hungry in the Land of Plenty

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Working with local businesses, Boulder Food Rescue identifies places where food that would usually be thrown away can be saved instead. Boulder Food Rescue provides food to homeless shelters, working-poor families, schools, charities, low-income housing cooperatives, and other organizations in need. Results That Matter.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

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I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. We have these little 29 Gift cards that people would tie onto the flowers, and she actually made a couple vases full of those, and took them into a local coffee shop. Now there are organized events happening locally. There's actually a homeless couple who is taking part.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." If he wants to do a political campaign, he's going to say, "For the next 40 days, I want you to feed all of the homeless in Orange County." You can see if there is a local group in your area.

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