PLATFORM: IPHONE

Ted

TED is a nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out in 1984 as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with two annual conferences -- the TED Conference and TEDGlobal -- TED includes the award-winning TED Talks video site, the Open Translation Project and TED Conversations, the inspiring TED Fellows and TEDx programs, and the annual TED Prize.
 

LaLa Lunchbox

LaLa Lunchbox is a fun and easy way for kids to plan and pack lunches with their parents. It empowers your kids, teaches them to make smarter food choices and helps them learn about advance planning.
Your kids get to personalize and design their lunchboxes with fun monsters and colors, and then plan their lunches for a whole week at a time. They simply swipe their choices into their lunchbox from a large selection of fruits, vegetables, proteins, and snacks. Along the way, they learn that a balanced lunch includes items from each category. Parents can easily personalize and edit the items available to their kids.

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1 Giant Mind

Meditation is now scientifically and medically validated as a powerful way to reduce stress and its negative impact on your health and wellbeing. 1 Giant Mind has made learning to meditate as easy as downloading a free app, closing your eyes, and following some simple instructions. Created to teach you how to meditate, its three-level program will have you experiencing deeply restful and expansive meditations in a few short sessions. The program has a variable timer, video tutorials, and a trouble-shooting resource to ensure you learn how to meditate with effortless ease.

Goodpin

Goodpin lets you: give to causes you care about, increase your impact with friends and brands, track your impact over time, see good happening around you right now. Fuel the virtuous cycle. Seeing good fuels more good.

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Fooducate

Fooducate a barcode scanner mobile app analyzes information found in each product's nutrition panel, shows you highlights on the product and offers better alternatives.
You get to see the stuff manufacturers don't want you to notice, such as:
excessive sugar, tricky trans fats, additives and preservatives, high fructose corn syrup, controversial food colorings.
Just pick up a product from the shelf, scan it, and let Fooducate do the rest.

ONE

ONE is a grassroots advocacy and campaigning organization that fights extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa, by raising public awareness and pressuring political leaders to support smart and effective policies and programs that are saving lives, helping to put kids in school and improving futures. Cofounded by Bono and other campaigners, ONE is nonpartisan and works closely with African activists and policy makers.

WebMD

WebMD provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. You can trust that our content is timely and credible. 

ASPCA

Founded in 1866, the ASPCA was the first humane organization in the Western Hemisphere. Our mission, as stated by founder Henry Bergh, is “to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the United States.” The ASPCA works to rescue animals from abuse, pass humane laws and share resources with shelters nationwide.

Snapguide

Snapguide is a free iOS app and web service for those that want to create and share step-by-step "how to guides." The service provides easy to understand instructions for a wide array of topics including cooking, gardening, crafts, repairs, do-it-yourself projects, fashion tips, entertaining and more. Users are invited to create their own guides using the iPhone app. Snap pictures and videos of your project, add captions, and share your guide with the Snapguide community.

TeuxDeux

TeuxDeux is a simple, designy to-do app and the first collaboration between studiomates swissmiss and Fictive Kin. If you like making to-do lists, you will love TeuxDeux. The idea was to build a bare-bones, but visually compelling and highly usable to-do app: Use the free browser-based TeuxDeux at work/home and then take your to-dos on the road with the iPhone app. 

Population Media Center

Population Media Center works worldwide using entertainment-education for social change. PMC’s programs encourage positive behavior change among the audience.

Be My Eyes

Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Download now and start helping blind people see.

Ushahidi

We are a non-profit tech company that specializes in developing free and open source software for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. We build tools for democratizing information, increasing transparency and lowering the barriers for individuals to share their stories.

US Environmental Protection Agency

EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment. EPA's Strategic Plan identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect from EPA and describes how we intend to achieve those results. Learn more about the Strategic Plan.

Mimi Music

Do you have hearing difficulties? Do you love sound? Constantly searching for the best? Mimi personalizes sound and music for your unique needs. Enjoy a new and extraordinary listening experience.