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

Connection Cafe

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. . The important thing to all be helping each other in this time of extraordinary need. .

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If we’d had Twitter on 9/11

Connection Cafe

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

They can also analyze the message they receive back and learn. They don’t ask open-ended messages, but asked close-ended questions so they can measure. In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. Because text is limited, they A/B test the messages they put out and learn.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofits can post open-call questions on a discussion board and gain insight and assets from countless members of the global community; proximity never even enters the equation. Before the internet, nonprofit organizations could only establish supportive relationships with the limited number of individuals and organizations in their region.

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