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The Mayo App - Creating Purposeful, Supportive, In-Person relationships beyond Screens

Learn now about the app helping people fight isolation. Want someone to sing to you from their balcony? You want Mayo.

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Every Voice Engaged: Transforming Lives, Communities, Government with Games, Software, and Collaboration

Every Voice Engaged helps governments to meet citizens’ needs and help citizens engage with their Government.

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Record Sponge

Record Sponge Cleans Records, Changes Lives

Record Sponge provides Oregon citizens with arrest records fast and free eligibility analysis that can lead to record expungements.

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Tech For Good

Grow your Tech for Good Project Teams with the "Groups" Feature on DemocracyLab!

The “Groups” feature lists the specific projects associated with a Tech for Good organization on a branded landing page that is easy to update and maintain. DemocracyLab makes it easy for volunteers to dig deep into a project before reaching out to project leaders to start a conversation.

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National Day of Civic Hacking

2020 National Day of Civic Hacking – NW Project Workday

The National Day of Civic Hacking brought together civic leaders, public servants, designers, coders and engaged citizens to partner with local governments and community groups to tackle some of our toughest challenges.

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What does volunteering as a Software Engineer look like?

Volunteer Software Engineers build, design, and deploy projects through DemocracyLab’s platform

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What is a Hackathon?

A hackathon is a short period where skilled individuals of all walks of life and industries come together to work on a specific goal. At DemocracyLab, our Hackathons focus on developing technology that improves the world.

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Summer Create-a-thon

White Bird Clinic’s Little Help Book: An Online, Expansive, and Accessible Resource Directory

Created by White Bird Clinic, Little help book is developing an online resource directory of human and social service resources around Eugene and Springfield

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Summer Create-a-thon

Strappd Sees Spike in Downloads During Pandemic

Strappd, an app that connects homeless individuals with services, surpasses 100,000 downloads.

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Summer Create-a-thon

Conviction Vacation Project Helps People Get a Second Chance

Conviction Vacation Project’s remote team meeting.Do you believe in second chances? Nearly one in four people in Washington State have been involved in the criminal justice system. It can be hard

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Banana App Decentralizes Food Distribution

Banana App’s food donation service revolutionizes food distribution through civictech and community engagement

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Corporate Hackathons: Bringing Companies and Communities Together, For Good

DemocracyLab’s corporate hackathons, which benefit employers, employees, and the community by bringing a workforce together to affect positive change.

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Hack for Your Mother 2020

A/B Street Gamifies Building Better Bus and Bike Lanes in Seattle

Dustin Carlino's A/B Street is a game that seeks to allows players to simulate various balances of car, bus, and bike lanes in Seattle to tackle gridlock

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Turin Horse Leverages Volunteer Data Analysts to Optimize Government

Turin Horse’s volunteer data analysts are using machine learning and data science to turn legislative data into clear, actionable information for voters.

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Play It Forward Brings Fun Back to Community Volunteering

Flatiron School students’ Play It Forward platform encourages all ages to volunteer in the community by offering points in exchange for community service.

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How a seed of climate activism grew into ClimateTree

At DemocracyLab, many socially conscious people come together to create and produce products, apps, and organize to help improve the world with technology.Inspired by the global climate strike student movement, ClimateTree positioned

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Using Data Analytics for Good - Civic Tech

Broadband access is a community issue and community leaders are getting organized to improve their broadband landscape. ACT Broadband is an assessment and planning toolkit that that helps local stakeholders come together and create better broadband options.

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

How 8 UX design volunteers helped a local Seattle non-profit

At Democracylab's recent hackathon, Adine's pitch attracted 8 volunteers, consisting of designers and user experience specialists. They focused on improving the presentation of content, optimizing user journeys through the site, and refining the graphics and functions.

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

You Can Help Local Governments Improve Transparency

Founder Jackson Brown says “the mission is to modernize interactions and communications with city council. We have all of this technology, why aren’t we applying it to local government?”

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

OrcaSound’s Machine Learning Web-App Helps Protect Killer Whales

Looking for tech volunteers with machine learning skills for OrcaSound’s new web-app to help protect Seattle’s killer whales.

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

Banana App - Using Technology to Help Hunger Problems

Banana App is an innovative mobile platform where restaurants and supermarkets can post food donations for food-insecure members.

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

Closing the Digital Divide - A Tool to Help Internet Inequality

In America today, kids all over the country need the internet to do their homework, and adults need it to telecommute or even find a job in the first place.

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

Using Open Data to Model and Solve Car Traffic Jams

Using a project he started in college as a starting point, he created A/B Street, a game for traffic simulation. “Traffic jams in Seattle suck,” says Dustin. “The way to fix it is not by adding more highways - people like to use walkways, buses and bikes.”

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St Hack Trick's Day 2020

How We Organized Teams of Experts Volunteering From Home

We were forced to rapidly adapt to changing circumstances and figure out how to mirror the familiar flow of our in-person events in a virtual environment. Our pivot was successful, with 145 people **volunteering from home** over the course of the day.

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