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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

TechSoup's Ale Bezdikian went out and conducted a video interview last spring using one of the donated Dell phones. They're a homeless services and neighborhood revitalization nonprofit that serves West Philly. PEC has delivered 80,000 hours of training to 50,000 people since 2010 in these labs. Tell Your Story.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

A year later, in 2010, it was even bigger. Instead of saying in the middle of the campaign “we need $X”, they share an interview with one of the beneficiaries, or invite people to connect directly via twitter with children in Tanzania who attend the school funded through the campaign. And then something exciting happened.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, In the fall of 2010 the community rallied around a pledge to find common ground and unity in the Charter for Common Ground. Connecting and enriching a national movement.

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next year, we hope to develop Entoure’s presence online to provide a truly virtual counterpart to their cycle and fitness events so that our online supporters and friends of the cyclists can experience all the effort in preparing for the ride and they 400km/3 day challenge itself – with blogs, videos, images, live commentary, audio interview.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

After witnessing the Stonewall Riots first-hand as a teenager, Rivera's revolutionary spirit was ignited and she worked for the rest of her life, continuing her activism and forming a group that worked with homeless drag queens and transgender women of color in New York City. Charlotte Cooper. Future Sheroes. Jazz Jennings. Laura Dekker.

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What is Lethal Generosity?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something. The team uses social media, twitter to initiate community generosity projects.

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