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In Loving Memory of My Mom, Ruth D. Kanter (My Mom)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Despite her lack of comfort using online tools, she was interested in anything that her children were involved with, even if it wasn’t her cup of tea. She took selfies with me and I taught her how she could use my phone to look at her children and grandchildren’s Facebook profiles.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

People's Emergency Center (PEC) in Philadelphia has been using Mobile Beacon quite a bit under a government-funded project that's part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. They're a homeless services and neighborhood revitalization nonprofit that serves West Philly. It puts them on the path to opportunity."

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Vote for Your CNN Hero: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Impact

Have Fun - Do Good

Today, the Los Angeles nanny funds a school in her native Malawi -- where half a million children have been orphaned by the disease." Carolyn LeCroy "After serving time in prison, Carolyn LeCroy started The Messages Project to help children stay connected with their incarcerated parents.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

Steve Williams: When I was in college I did a lot of service work around homelessness issues. I was like, "It's cool doing it," but I recognize that regardless of how hard I worked in the homeless shelter, that every day there were more and more people, who were forced to come to the shelter because they had nowhere else to go.

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