Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2017

Covenant Hous e (helping homeless youth). There are many more local nonprofits, focusing on animals, elderly, children, and more. Here’s a list of suggestions from people in my network: United Way of Houston. PortLight “Inclusive Disaster Relief” SPCA of Texas. Bayou Animal Services. Galveston Animal Rescue Service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Tech Recycling Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. The SXSW Pepsi Fresh Challenge matched three different causes with three social media rock stars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

We provide housing to the chronically homeless who have HIV/AIDS, mental health issues, chemical dependency, and other special needs. So I dropped the words homelessness and volunteering from my search. Now I serve on the board of Praxis Housing. Praxis is expanding its six person board to 11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2018

I remember her wrapping up Thanksgiving leftovers and distributed them to homeless people on the streets of Philadelphia. She was also an arts lover. She was a generous and compassionate person and often helped people with fewer resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

He started it because on a cold December day, he passed a homeless person on the street asking for money. a street musician, a homeless person, your favorite charity. A few days ago Sasha Dichter was on a panel with Katya Andresen from Network for Good. Sasha did a talk about his month-long generosity experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In some cases, nonprofits confuse their cause with their purpose in that if they were asked why their organization exists, they would talk about the category in which they operate (homelessness, breast cancer research, or addressing climate change), rather than a specific and differentiating point of view on those issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

For example, Project Renewal helps homeless people get off the streets. They showed Harry Dickerson reclaim his life from homelessness on their Giving Tuesday campaign and raised over $70,000 with this storyline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

For example, More Than Words in Boston is a social enterprise that provides youth who are in the foster care system, homeless, or out of school with the developmental supports they need to thrive along with employment and educational services to prepare them for the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2013

He had spent his AmeriCorps term as a liaison between a mayor’s office and the homeless community, building relationships and creating resources. Let’s Help AmeriCorps Alums Use Their Experience to Keep Giving Back. By Ben Duda. Last summer, I met a young man in Arizona named Kyle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

Six months later, I’m happy to report that my numbers are in the normal range. I’m also noticing that many of my colleagues are trying to become healthy, including my friend and homeless advocate, Mark Horvath, who is also raising money for a good cause while getting healthy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I'm very honored that @hardlynormal , a homeless activist, has donated. I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. What could be more fun? Thank you for donating!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

She's been through some difficult times and was on the brink of homelessness. com community has banded together and they are no longer homeless. So, this is a random act of kindness on my behalf. She is a divorced mother of 6 children. You can send a small donation to here paypal account here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

” She said she wanted to give money to an organization that helped homeless families. I introduced her to my colleague, Mark Horvath’s organization, Invisible People , and we donated. I asked her, “If you could give a donation to any charity to support whatever cause you feel is important, what would it be?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

To hear more from some of the people L4G-participating organizations are listening to, please see our short video highlighting the feedback efforts at Our House , which serves homeless families in Little Rock, Ark. Both the nonprofit and its clients are excited about the benefits of speaking up, being heard, and making changes for the better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Everywhere I turned, I saw examples of generosity, creativity, joy, gratitude, and celebration — all linked to the simple notion of giving back – your time, your money, or support. Whether it was a 12 year old starting a fundraising drive to help homeless , GivingTuesday matching grant challenges , nonprofits launching crowd funding (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2008

for poverty, hunger and homeless advocacy and change. s largest food pantry and community kitchen, and they do so much more than just hand out turkeys on Thanksgiving to the homeless. I shall use it to dominate the Web 2.0 The bludgeoning idea is brilliant too. Lauderdale, FL. It's the county???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group. I loved this Five Dollar Bill airplane story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

For example, Mark Horvath has put together a cookbook , filled with recipes from social media leaders, that is being sold on iTunes and is generating funding to help provide programs to homeless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. With the big holiday charitable giving season just around the corner, there's a host of cause-related giving campaigns waiting in software launch and nonprofits gearing up for their end-of-the-year efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

The whole speech is 12 minutes, and if you want some tips about reaching millenials I’d advise watching the whole thing [quick tip: animals and homelessness]. DoSomething’s Nancy Lublin puts a very real face on the cost of our failure to collaborate in her PdF talk. But if you only have time for the hard questions, start at 6:30.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

Joel works for the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida & Volusia-Flagler County Coalition for the Homeless now. I had the pleasure of working with Joel (and Cheryl) on the Day of Service in Orlando. That's us at Disney World when we were awarded the Swimming Up Stream Award. He was an intern back then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2008

Hundreds of thousands are now homeless. Flickr Photo by Jacques de Goldfiem Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar last weekend devastating five regions. Channel NewsAsia reported that more than 22,000 people are dead with another 41,000 missing. The media reports are horrific. "Witnesses described images of rice field littered with corpses."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2008

are now homeless. The Russey Keo. area has experienced a devastating fire, with over 200 homes burned, taking several hours to extinguish. Agence France Presse estimates ???thousands??? thousands??? ll never know for sure if it was an accident, or intentional; but the timing stinks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2015

The most important thing is sending the elevator back down and paying it forward so one day we can put the over in poverty and no one will have to go to bed hungry or homeless. “. “I believe ending poverty requires as many people as possible to join the movement. Their commitment, passion, and vision is inspiring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. Rik visited the homeless avatar: I decided to pop into SL to check it out. Mobilize: Give people something to do. And not just fundraise. Provide Hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2011

He showed a series of photos from the Common Ground campaign for homeless to get homes – before and after photos. We’re good at pity – starving kids, etc. It has a side effect – we can’t take too much of that. He pointed out that it was story of hope. Shape the Path (create a culture for change).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

In an attempt to create a demo to explain tagging and social tagging to some folks who run a ctc that works with homeless for Friday, I came up with the metaphor of a potluck dinner. Decadent Chocolate Dessert Originally uploaded by Choconancy1. Here's on one of the desserts. Let's see who else is coming and bringing what in flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. And, it's amazing what we can accomplish when we get together. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv

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