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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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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. At SXSW, there….

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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

Volunteer Hub

We could not achieve our goals and provide the support we do to the community without our volunteer’s commitment to the cause,” said Mary Bachman, Director of Volunteer Resources, Catholic Charities of St. With the support of volunteers, we are able to effectively engage with individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C.

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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. 14lcs Community idea accelerator Leadership' These kids need ongoing support.

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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. Here's what she says about this work.

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2012 SXSW Interactive Roundup

NTEN

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. At SXSW, there…. One panel, moderated by….