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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Maria Ruiz "Several times a week, Maria Ruiz of El Paso, Texas, crosses the border into Juarez, Mexico, bringing food, clothing and toys for hundreds of impoverished children and their families." David Puckett "Started PIPO Missions to bring ongoing prosthetic and orthotic care to those in need.

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The Most Generous Online Giving Cities in the U.S.

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153,867.00. 318,072.68. 110,464.00. 224,914.45. 110,189.00. 217,299.01. 665,568.00. 1,308,824.77. 150,119.00. 282,675.35. Kansas City. 146,453.00. 275,700.22. 1,882.52.

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From Coast to Coast: How Healthcare Organizations are Handling the Outpouring of Support and In-Kind Gifts

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Texas (U niversity M edical C enter (UMC) El Paso) : Thank you for stepping up and investing in our community’s health. We are all in this together , and we will get through it because we are El Paso Strong. .

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

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We were surprised when we reached a roadblock just West of El Paso. I was also surprised that El Paso, TX is only the half-way point between LA and Austin. Not knowing what we’d find over the horizon. We were interrogated by soldiers with automatic weapons. Another full day of being cut-off and numb.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. The first hire was a Data Scientist and CTO. It was designed and built on the notion of data collection and analysis. Within a few months, the list expanded to all area codes in the US. It is used 6 times more often than other words.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

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Before Sun Health, Tompkins served as marketing director for Sierra Medical Center, a Tenet Health hospital in El Paso, Texas, and public relations director for Banner Baywood Medical Center and Banner Heart Hospital in Mesa, Ariz. Like this article? Get another! Click here to read Kayla McKinney's post, "Time to give a little.".

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