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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Carolyn LeCroy "After serving time in prison, Carolyn LeCroy started The Messages Project to help children stay connected with their incarcerated parents. She and volunteer camera crews have taped roughly 3,000 inmate messages." David Puckett "Started PIPO Missions to bring ongoing prosthetic and orthotic care to those in need.

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From Coast to Coast: How Healthcare Organizations are Handling the Outpouring of Support and In-Kind Gifts

Connection Cafe

The concept of time for those of us staying at home who aren’t in direct services h as radically changed. I often tell my healthcare clients that gifts of time and talent are just a prec ious as the financial ones. We are all in this together , and we will get through it because we are El Paso Strong. .

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

I still hadn’t been able to talk to my husband, but my mother-in-law had gotten word to him that we were headed East on I-10, and he was able to track my progress via our online, real-time credit card statement. We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. And, so quickly, ways to help.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And, they had real time data – they could be in the moment and understand what was going on. “It All of their collection campaigns are done on a template – where they have iterated on what works – from the messaging, timing, etc. If a program is outside our KPIs, we don’t waste time or money on it. “. It is ongoing.”.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Before Sun Health, Tompkins served as marketing director for Sierra Medical Center, a Tenet Health hospital in El Paso, Texas, and public relations director for Banner Baywood Medical Center and Banner Heart Hospital in Mesa, Ariz. Click here to read Kayla McKinney's post, "Time to give a little.". Like this article?

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