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Community Technology Alliance: Helping Address Homelessness with Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Recently, CTA conducted a study on mobile use by the homeless population of Santa Clara County (where CTA is located). An Opportunity to Learn. What CTA Uncovered.

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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. Arthur Grau of NetSquared Honolulu reported back on the National Day of Civic Hacking/Code for Hawaii event in Honolulu. Using tweets' GPS, the database can then track where the rack is.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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Bay Area Nonprofit Collaborative Pilots High-Tech Social Service Referral System

Non Profit Quarterly

May 29, 2019; San Francisco Chronicle. Now, San Francisco Chronicle business reporter Carolyn Said writes that Benetech is “almost halfway through a six-month pilot with six Bay Area social-service agencies to collaborate on maintaining their crucial databases of local resources through an open-standards data exchange.”

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

In doing so, they provide 2,500 meals and 200 bags of groceries for clients in the San Francisco and Oakland area every day. Thanks to a custom integration with Luminate Online , this site can support complex sponsorship search and eCommerce tasks while reporting all-important engagement data directly back to the central database.