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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. Sounds a bit creepy, right? Homelessness and Mobile Technology. Plasschaert, a woman who credits Twitter for ending her homelessness. Or helpful? I'm not sure.

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Compassion Services International on Growing Your Nonprofit Email List, Donation Thank You’s, and Powerful Storytelling

CauseVox

Their goal is to bring hope and help to various nations during times of crisis. Cylinda’s story aligns with why Rob Wu and Jeff Chang co-founded CauseVox in the first place. It may sound strange but Cylinda and many other nonprofit professionals swear by it: the #1 fundraising hack is to grow your email list. Donation Tipping.

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Goal Setting for Your Nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

Review the mission statement - cure cancer, end homelessness, provide affordable housing for working families - whatever it is, ask yourself if the programs from last year helped the organization reach its goals. It sounds fairly simple but it’s easy to get lost in the details. Now is the time to make changes.

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The Neuroscience of Purpose: Recharging in the Nonprofit World

ASU Lodestar Center

If you work for a nonprofit, there’s a good chance that you’re working on a tough problem like the achievement gap, homelessness, or global hunger. This is sound advice, but the question is “How?” We won’t make long-term changes in ourselves by taking a weekend at a spa. Why this matters for those of us in the nonprofit world.

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What is the Turkey and the Bread (or the Sourdough Starter) of the MAH?

Museum 2.0

Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change. It's run by Becky Mangiotta and Joe McCannon, two brilliant nerds who led national movements in homelessness and public health and then decided to teach others how to do it. But they suggested another metaphor: the turkey sandwich.

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Why Building Resilient Networks Matter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From there they traversed Long Island Sound to New London, Connecticut, and then drove to Boston. Sandy exposed our vulnerability to climate change. The homeless population in the city doubled to 80,000. Undoubtedly, the inequities in who bears the brunt of climate change will play out in similar ways on the larger global stage.

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

Connection Cafe

While I may not possess the intellectual wherewithal to solve homelessness, food insecurity or a host of other chronic societal problems, I have great faith that someone out there will have that ability. In the last 30 years, technology has been an integral part of that innovation and I don’t see that changing any time soon.