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The 2013 Rob Stuart Memorial Award: Invisible People, Mark Horvath

NTEN

The 2013 Award Winner Invisible People uses the lens of a television camera to tell the stories of homelessness and the organizations trying to help. Founder, Mark Horvath was moved by his own past exprience as a homeless person to document real people, telling their own, very real stories… unedited, uncensored and raw.

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Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The next best thing is to have colleagues who have attended amazing conferences like Personal Democracy Forum and share what they learned. I’m grateful that Kate Wing has offered up this guest post about her experience at PDF 2013. Reflections and Notes from Personal Democracy Forum 2013. The 50% conference rule.

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The Power of Place: The @home Campaign

NTEN

Mark’s work -- crisscrossing the country to tell the stories of homeless men and women -- relies on mobile technology. I met Mark Horvath, winner of the 2013 NTC Rob Stuart Memorial Award , at NTC in 2010. Mark’s work -- crisscrossing the country to tell the stories of homeless men and women -- relies on mobile technology.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

As 2013 come to a close, we’re counting down startups that’ve made a splash in using “social good” as their primary motivator. 5) The startup that donates clothing to the homeless as you shop. We met the small-but-able team at Knoclothing at New York Tech Day back in April 2013, and we’re still continually impressed.

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

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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What Attributes do Nonprofits Need to Build Cross-Sector Collaboration?

ASU Lodestar Center

Department of Housing and Urban Development dropped the bombshell of defunding all but one nonprofit transitional housing provider for homeless families in Maricopa County, Arizona, the local nonprofit, private and government organizations began to scramble (Polletta, 2016). References: Grudinschi, D., Kaljunen, L., Hokkanen, T., Hallikas, J.,

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. 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. 78% attend fundraising events.

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