The 10 Best Open Source Projects You Should Be Volunteering To Help With
You don't have to be a programmer. You could be a writer, a designer, a translator, just a Facebook or Twitter junkie, or someone who wants to just donate money for the cause. There are different levels where you can put your two bits. And here are ten of the many open source projects where you can.
Recycle For A Cause: 5 Ways You Can Donate Your Old Cellphone & Help Make The World A Better Place
We can help by donating our old cellphones (and other electronics), so that the recycling industry can reclaim some more percentage from the precious metals that gets mined. But that is not the only way we can help. Here are five more ways to donate old cellphones and help a local or global cause.
5 Web Services That Are Using Technology To Help With Charity & Social Change
Technology continues to do its bit. From search engines that donate with every search to biggies with their outreach programs in the rural parts of the world. So, with this background let’s look at five web services which help non-profits work effectively on social change.
Google Launches Person Finder In Turkish In Response To Recent Earthquake [News]
Google has launched its Person Finder service in Turkish following the recent 7.2 earthquake that has struck Turkey. Over 200 people were killed in the earthquake, and many are still missing. Google’s Person Finder aims at helping rescue services and civilians locate missing people by publicly sharing information about them.
3 Ways Reddit Can Help Those In Need
Reddit is a miraculous little site that yields the potential to either make or break the Internet but when its users are not spreading memes like a disease, they are caring for people that are truly in need. So what if you end up actually needing assistance? It's a good thing that the philanthropic users of Reddit and their lovely alien named Snoo are here to help.
6 Charities That You Can Just Text To Donate
Back in early 2010, when Haiti was devastated by a massive earthquake, text-to-donate campaigns helped raise the amazing amount of $10 million pretty quickly. Though that campaign is no longer active (you can still mail cash donations), other donation-by-SMS campaigns now exist to provide disaster relief to Japan and the tsunami-hit Pacific. There are many additional non-profit organizations that make use of these text-to-donate campaigns.