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MyTherapy
http://www.mytherapyapp.comMyTherapy uniquely combines medication reminders and health tracking. The app reliably reminds you to take your meds, to get active and to track your vitals. How does it work? MyTherapy translates your therapy into a simple to-do list. Your daily goal: checking off your tasks – for peace of mind. At the same time MyTherapy’s built-in health journal summarizes your medication intake and other health-related information.
Earth911
http://earth911.comEarth911 is a privately owned, for-profit company that specializes in providing consumers with accessible and actionable recycling information across the US. Our Earth911 Recycling Directory is the most accurate and comprehensive directory of its kind and contains recycling information for over 300 materials. We have collected over 1 million ways to recycle that people can search for to find their nearest recycling options and resources.
Good Guide
http://www.goodguide.comGoodGuide is in business to provide authoritative information about the health, environmental and social performance of products and companies. Our mission is to help consumers make purchasing decisions that reflect their preferences and values. We believe that better information can transform the marketplace: as more consumers buy better products, retailers and manufacturers face compelling incentives to make products that are safe, environmentally sustainable and produced using ethical sourcing of raw materials and labor.
Remember the Milk
http://www.rememberthemilk.comManaging tasks is generally not a fun way to spend your time. We created Remember The Milk so that you no longer have to write your to-do lists on sticky notes, whiteboards, random scraps of paper, or the back of your hand. Remember The Milk makes managing tasks an enjoyable experience.
Donors Choose
http://www.donorschoose.orgDonorsChoose.org is an online charity that makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on DonorsChoose.org. Requests range from pencils for a poetry writing unit, to violins for a school recital, to microscope slides for a biology class. Then, you can browse project requests and give any amount to the one that inspires you. Once a project reaches its funding goal, we deliver the materials to the school.
Weather Underground
http://www.wunderground.comWeather Underground is committed to delivering the most reliable, accurate weather information possible. Our state-of-the-art technology monitors conditions and forecasts for locations across the world, so you'll always find the weather information that you need.
Fooducate
http://www.fooducate.comFooducate 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.
Kiva
http://www.kiva.orgKiva is the world's first and largest crowdfunding platform for social good. Kiva is a nonprofit organization that aims to connect people through lending to alleviate poverty and expand economic opportunity. Since 2005, Kiva and their growing global community of 950,000 lenders have crowdfunded more than $450 million in microloans to over 1 million entrepreneurs in 65 countries, with a 98.9% repayment rate. Visitors can browse the website to see profiles and stories of borrowers seeking loans for school tuitions and supplies, expanding their business, access to clean/green energy products and more. You can choose someone to lend $25 or more to and when your loan is repaid you can relend to another person or withdraw you money from the system.
United Nations Foundation
http://www.unfoundation.orgIt takes all nations and all sectors to make progress on the most important and far-reaching international challenges. We are an advocate for the UN and a platform for connecting people, ideas and resources to help the United Nations solve global problems. We build partnerships, grow constituencies, mobilize resources and advocate policy changes to support the UN’s work for individual and global progress.
Donate a Photo
http://www.donateaphoto.comDonate a Photo is a mobile app from Johnson & Johnson, which donates $1 to a worthy cause for each photo shared. Through Donate a Photo, Johnson & Johnson hopes to raise more awareness for the causes that need help and connect people to nonprofits, helping everyone make an even bigger difference.
Charipick
https://www.charipick.orgThere are a lot of charities out there doing a lot of great work. But finding the right charity to support can be overwhelming. That’s where Charipick comes in. They research charities that make unique differences and then, based on your interests, pick charities you’d be most interested in. The more you pick, the more customized and delightful your experience gets.
This American Life
http://www.thisamericanlife.orgThis American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.8 million listeners. There's a theme to each episode, and a variety of stories on that theme. It's mostly true stories of everyday people, though not always. There's lots more to the show, but it's sort of hard to describe