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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Senior Humanitarian Climate Crisis Advisor, Save the Children International. Emma Visman. Nicolas Umuhizi.

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Rachel Machen.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: The Quick and No-Nonsense Guide

Bloomerang

Hospice and homelessness can both be taboo subjects that can make people uncomfortable. Dewey’s wife and the mother of his two children was killed in a car accident when the kids were just 11 and 12. His children visited as they could while Dewey lived at the Abbie Hunt Bryce Home. Watch below. Storytelling at an event.

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Crafting Sticky, Emotional Stories That Reach Your Audience

Tech Soup

That's because these aren't just children's nursery rhymes; they're sticky stories, or stories that stick with you for decades. When we were children, we all knew how important stories were. Imagine a story being told to children around a campfire. Now swap out the children with adults.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. I wanted to get them to safety.

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We Want YOU to Help Scale Up Mobile for the Common Good

Tech Soup

Without it, it can be difficult to find a home, apply for a job, sign up for classes, make homeless shelter reservations or find soup kitchens. Because of the TechSoup members who have signed up and as part of our Phone for Phone program , children in Kenya have learned to read, girls of color in the U.S.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

I live now in New York, but before moving there in the autumn, I was based in London for a few years. Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. BlueGreen Alliance.

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