June 16, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
Four nonprofits have won $500,000 each in Google’s Impact Challenge. The winning organizations are:
- Bring Me a Book, which will give kids access to digital books and create an online community for parents and caregivers to encourage low-income families to read together.
- The Center for Employment Opportunities, which will build a technology platform to help people leaving prison to prepare for employment in a digital world.
- Hack the Hood, which will train low-income teenagers to build websites for small businesses as preparation for careers in technology.
- The Health Trust, which will expand its program to make fresh produce available in underserved areas.
Nonprofits submitted nearly 1,000 ideas for ways to aid people in the San Francisco Bay Area. A panel of judges selected 10 finalists, and the public voted online to pick the top four ideas.
For more information: Go to g.co/bayareachallenge.
Also in technology news:
- Springwire, a charity that provides free voicemail in 300 cities, will transfer its programs to Feeding America on July 1. The charity helps people who do not have phone service because they are homeless or fleeing domestic abuse.
- Concern International and International Medical Corps, working with the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, and the U.S. Agency for International Development, have created a new online course for aid workers who respond to disasters. Go to building abetterresponse.org.
