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Join Us: AIRS Conference

VisionLink

Multiple industries are represented at AIRS, including Housing and Homelessness, Aging and Disabilities, Crisis, Health Care, Public Health, and more. The conference Program Committee did an outstanding job of putting together quality sessions that incorporate cross-sector collaboration, diversity, equity, inclusion, and access themes.

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4 free ways to access Candid’s demographic data 

Candid

Candid’s team of technologists (of which I am a member) has been charged with providing multiple channels to make this information freely available and easily accessible. 4 ways to access nonprofit demographic data for free 1. Our free API powers various use cases that fit within your new or existing grantmaking processes.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

Additionally, many of the apps were built using Twilio.org's SMS and voice APIs. No Place Like Home uses an API from the real estate website Zillow to help tenants determine what a fair amount to vacate their apartment is. The data was compiled using service information from San Francisco homeless organizations.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

Technology moves at a fantastic rate, and as applications on the Internet become more interconnected, it becomes harder to rely on or wait for proprietary solutions to provide access to, for example, the latest changes in Facebook's API, Flickr, or YouTube. Open source is a community-driven effort.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Think of it as the track changes feature in word, but on the web so that anyone who has access can contribute. Adding a new data point to it.

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Using Software and Data to Change the World

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! Collectively, we are getting ambitious about social change. And we are not alone, or the first, to have this dream.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

From another perspective, there’s the side of our data that translates into APIs, maps, and info graphics. For example, the Social Actions API pulls together volunteer opportunities and social actions from over 60 different sources – that way we can all re-purpose calls to action from across the web.

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