Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2010

So, when Mark Horvath , someone who fits the description of “ free agent “ in our book The Networked Nonprofit , let me know he was passing by San Francisco at the end of his road trip to promote WeAreVisible , I suggested we all have lunch. Christian Canter, Shelter Network, and Mark Horvath, Invisible People TV.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 28, 2014

homeless - SFGate : Technology whizzes, nonprofit workers and others will converge this weekend in San Francisco to try to cook up new tech-savvy ways to help the homeless in a series of get-togethers organizers are calling Hacktivation for the Homeless.' Hacktivation event seeks ways for tech to help S.F.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. GLIDE is a faith-based homeless services program in San Francisco that supplies hot meals, violence prevention, and education services in one of worst neighborhoods.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Trans*H4ck is based in San Francisco, but has held events in Boston, Chicago, Oakland, Las Vegas, and more. This location-based apps helps users find LGBT-friendly healthcare providers, mental health specialists, and providers that specialize in transgender health in San Francisco. well, that's a different story.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

San Francisco Day of Civic Hacking. This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. freespace], San Francisco. TechSoup Global's Ale Bezdekian attended another San Francisco event, but it was much different from the one at San Francisco State.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Specifically, leading a 9 to 5 life at a job where you "increase shareholder value" and "exceed client expectations," while at night, you spend your precious spare hours working for a cause you love … maybe pug rescue, meals for the homeless, or mental health advocacy … all to make a difference.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

I spoke with Joseph Tanigawa from Code for San Francisco (our local chapter of Code for America), who presented LocalFreeWeb at the previous breakfast. Joseph first heard of the LocalFreeWeb project a little over a year ago at Hack Night for Code for San Francisco. But first, it needs further adoption in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. San Francisco’s Regina Walton shines a spotlight on the best #nptech events in San Francisco.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

He later joined Kiva.org in San Francisco, a crowdfunding platform which has raised over $1 billion to entrepreneurs worldwide. 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%). 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Salim Virgi The social web offers a welcome place for individual philanthropic activity (original homeless image by jlmccoy ).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Not in San Francisco? Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Sign up for NTEN''s Workshop-Technology Champion Master Class in San Francisco on September 19! Not in San Francisco? Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Jared Paul, the co-founder of a new nonprofit that has a focus on homeless youth and one of the winners of the $25,000 in the first phase of Chase's Giving Community Contest offered to share his thoughts. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

It's taking place this year in San Francisco from April 26-28th. The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Vancouver, Canada: NetVideo² -A casual get together that will make you more awesome! Washington, DC: NetSquared meetup. Wednesday, October 16. Research Triangle Park, NC: The “Good” part of NCTech4Good.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. in Environmental Management with a concentration in Water Management, both from the University of San Francisco. Isabella received her B.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2021

SF New Deal began with a vision of San Francisco as a world class city that provides an abundance of support, opportunity, dignity, respect, and appreciation for small businesses and neighbors in need. SF New Deal launched in March 2020 as a rapid response to the COVID pandemic in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

" Outside of work, he enjoys playing soccer, disc golf, and going to live concerts, and he is really getting to like San Francisco. " His charitable interest is addressing homelessness. They were a homeless services center, something I'm passionate about. I ask, 'Can I at least travel?' ' Maybe.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

Ghaffari laid out a hypothetical situation: Imagine a homeless shelter funded through two contracts, one from HUD and the other from the City of San Francisco. The importance of accurate reporting was also emphasized by Ann Goggins Gregory, COO of Habitat for Humanity, Greater San Francisco. For example, Ms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 29, 2007

In my surfing around for adoption opportunities, I came across the incredible story of Pali Boucher, the founder of Rocket Dog Rescue in San Francisco. Boucher was the child of a homeless, drug-addicted mother who died when she was ten. As a homeless adult, she visited animal shelters to spend time with the dogs there.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 19, 2007

In San Francisco, Yoga Sangha is hosting a "Spiritual Activation Series" with lecture, yoga and meditation. Street Yoga is a group in the Pacific Northwest that teaches free yoga and wellness classes to youth living on the streets and in foster care, children of homeless families, and young people recovering from abuse and trauma.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

YouthTruth implements an online survey in multiple languages, whereas Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco uses paper surveys in English, Spanish, and Cantonese then enters results by hand into SurveyMonkey as part of Shared Insight’s Listen for Good initiative.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2015

"We're always looking at mobile services that can help impoverished, low income, and homeless communities," she told TechSoup. and San Francisco ) are adding social workers to their employee roster. Range piqued her interest because it aligned with the work Lift does: connecting people in need with social services.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. I'm a literary agent in San Francisco, with the Larsen-Pomada Literary Agents , and we've been in business a long time here in San Francisco. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? Suite 100, San Francisco, CA 94107, U.S.A. The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

We began, essentially, organizing a union of low-wage workers, unemployed workers, to try to improve both the living conditions and the working conditions for low-wage workers here in San Francisco. Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was hooked from that moment on.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JUNE 14, 2019

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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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2009

As I wrote this post on the flight back from my third NTEN Conference I know I felt similar to many of the other 1,600 “NPTechies” (Nonprofit Techies) who are leaving San Francisco. Some people work one-on-one with organizations consulting on anything from technology budgeting to online social media strategy.

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NTEN

APRIL 18, 2014

If you’re in the Chicago, New York, or San Francisco are, check out volunteer opportunities at Upwardly Global: [link] NTEN’s Membership Director Megan Keane in San Francisco helped to manage the One Brick volunteer event at a small nonprofit called At the Crossroads (ATC) , which does outreach to homeless youth.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

Donors and communities are announcing big hairy audacious goals – end modern slavery, get to zero chronic and veteran homelessness, increase job opportunities for certain communities by a factor of two – or ten! Collectively, we are getting ambitious about social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2012

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. Twitter: @americasvoice ) 20.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The homeless community? The ideal situation is one like that at El Rio , a bar in San Francisco that lets you bring your own food and also offers free barbecues and oysters every week. Pick a specific community (or two). Don't say that your institution will be a "town square for the community." Which community?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 22, 2008

People have organized group gives in Atlanta, Houston, a couple times in Los Angeles, and it will happen tomorrow in San Francisco, that as a group we get together and give away roses to strangers. There's actually a homeless couple who is taking part. They were free for anyone to take. How has it changed you ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

That's where this work really sprung out of in looking at issues of homelessness, looking at issues of women on welfare, and looking at women in prison-- those who were really most affected and most in need of their voices being lifted. That is really where the origins of the work came out of. Then, I moved into the world of teaching.

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