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Help Hurricane Harvey Victims: Where To Donate #HoustonStrong

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I watched the news reports from Texas and was horrified at the scale of this disaster. When a disaster is too big for one food bank to handle, Feeding Texas steps in to coordinate with the state and other providers so that relief comes quick. Covenant Hous e (helping homeless youth). Covenant Hous e (helping homeless youth).

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How can nonprofits strategically implement digital tools to achieve impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Chad Wheeler, the CEO of Open Door, a nonprofit working to alleviate chronic homelessness and human trafficking in my home of Lubbock, Texas, has come to use all of the previously named technologies. Professionally, Josh is the director of community impact for Madera Residential in Lubbock, Texas.

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Homeless people turned into walking wi-fi hotspots at $2 per 15 minutes at SXSW | Mail Online

AFP Blog

Homeless people turned into walking wi-fi hotspots at $2 per 15 minutes at SXSW | Mail Online : A marketing stunt where homeless people were turned into walking internet hotspots with T-shirts proclaiming 'I'm a 4G hotspot' has caused outcry in Texas.

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Nonprofit Uses App to Survey Homeless People Daily—What Do You Need? | Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports

AFP Blog

Nonprofit Uses App to Survey Homeless People Daily—What Do You Need? Nonprofit Quarterly delivers the latest news and investigative reports : "In recent years, as technology and social media have expanded many non-profits have chosen to use these resources to help homeless people. via Blog this'

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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Beyond the Idea Accelerator with Ann McAlpin: "Connections - Aged-Out Foster Kids and Caring Adults"

NTEN

Because of this, they face a high likelihood of having ongoing emotional difficulties, becoming pregnant, spending time in jail, and remaining homeless. Ann McAlpin is Executive Director of CASA Child Advocates of Montgomery County in Texas. Kids in the foster care system turn 18 and are turned loose to be independent.

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TechSoup Honors Unsung Heroes

Tech Soup

I'd like you to meet Kerry Thomson at Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, Indiana; Lori Chidgey of Corazon Ministries in San Antonio, Texas; Betty Martin of Cape Girardeau Public Library in Missouri; and the late Rory Foster of the Northwoods Wildlife Center in Minocqua, Wisconsin. Unconditional Love and Justice.