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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. Reset the Net is an effort to fight back against government surveillance on all devices, including mobile (here are five ways to get started). Homelessness and Mobile Technology.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. I live now in New York, but before moving there in the autumn, I was based in London for a few years. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. Connecting and enriching a national movement. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

Writer and author of New York Times best seller "Bad Feminist," modern-day feminist icon Roxane Gay is a force of nature. Along with earning her PhD (she is credited as the first woman in East and Central Africa to do so), Maathai taught at the university level, worked in the Kenya government, and founded the Greenbelt Movement.

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

Are there any who you'd like to hear interviewed on the Big Vision Podcast ? Mike Rocco | City Hall Fellows | San Francisco, CA City Hall Fellows creates the next generation of enlightened leaders for local government empowering them to be effective change agents. Twitter: @PDXJrScientists ) 16. Twitter: @cityhallfellows ) 17.