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How Tech is Enabling Thousands of In-Home Vaccinations for Massachusetts’ Most Vulnerable

Saleforce Nonprofit

Since the beginning of the pandemic, our team has worked closely with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to care for these individuals, including COVID-19-positive homeless and marginally housed residents of Massachusetts at the Isolation and Recovery sites. To address transportation needs, we expanded our transportation reimbursement program.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: Tim Snyder, Wake Forest University

Connection Cafe

Today’s Q&A is with Tim Snyder, associate vice president, Alumni and Donor Services at Wake Forest University. In his role, Tim is responsible for the overall management of Alumni Services, the Wake Forest Fund, and Donor Services and Advancement Services at the university. Q: What led you to working in higher education?

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the concepts that the group designed was a strategy for collecting data from low income individuals which was identified as a key challenge for some participants who work with homeless populations. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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77 Quotes from VolunteerHub Clients

Volunteer Hub

With the support of volunteers, we are able to effectively engage with individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C. We had a system of spreadsheets, memory, and phone calls. Volunteers are crucial to the work we do at Miriam’s Kitchen. Prior to VolunteerHub we managed our volunteer program by hand.

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Can Mobile Phones Solve Homelessness?

Tech Soup

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. Assuredly they are.

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25+ Virtual Fundraising Ideas | A Guide for 2021

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Instead of multiple phone calls back and forth, they can just enter their information on your online form and press “submit.” Their solution was a partnership with Transylvania University where they used one of its buildings for housing. Leverages common tools. As of 2020, 95% of North Americans are internet users.

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

And Phil Zimbardo is going to speak about his book, The Lucifer Effect , which showed how he had an experiment where he put a few students of his from Stanford in prison and a few people, in the same class, in as prison guards, and then it showed how immediately they turned bad because of how power can corrupt people. How to do your work?