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Charitable orgs that could benefit from a focused Hackathon for HighEdWeb 2014
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| Oregon Food Bank (oregonfoodbank.org) is a common cause here in Portland. Every summer they have a large blues fest supporting them (http://www.waterfrontbluesfest.com/). Here are others: | |
| Ecotrust | |
| Medical Teams International (they have an exhibit here to give a "real life" experience of places they support -- like living at a Mexico garbage dump -- https://www.medicalteams.org/home/real-life-exhibit | |
| Mercy Corps | |
| Loaves & Fishes Centers | |
| The Oregon Community Foundation | |
| Oregon Environmental Council | |
| It might be nice to support a women in tech organization or partner with: | |
| ChickTech (http://www.chicktech.org/) | |
| Code 'n' Splode (http://codensplode.org/) | |
| Women Who Hack (http://womenwhohack.org/) | |
| Code Scouts (http://codescouts.org/about.html) | |
| App Camp for Girls (http://www.appcamp4girls.com/about/) | |
| See article on women in tech (http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-19236-where_the_tech_is_sh.html) from last May. |
A couple more:
SMART http://www.getsmartoregon.org/
girls, inc http://www.girlsinc.org/
sisters of the road http://sistersoftheroad.org/
raphael house http://raphaelhouse.com/
Called/emailed Oregon Food Bank to get us started.
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