Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. I trained her staff on how to blog. Devon Smith.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. Homelessness and Mobile Technology. The Nonprofit Quarterly shared an interesting story from the National Desert News about the benefits of mobile access for homeless populations.

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BoardAssist

JULY 8, 2014

On the other hand, a homeless shelter cannot turn away the needy when the building becomes full. For the homeless shelter, the number of clients is too variable to form the basis of a budget. The homeless shelter budgets expenses by analyzing historical trends and relying on expert predictions of future trends.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 17, 2022

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is a New York Times bestseller, written as a letter to his teenage son. African Americans make up 40 percent of the homeless population despite only representing 13 percent of the general population. Support Nonprofits that Advance Equal Rights. You can support their work here.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Michele Ganeless noticed Hollywood’s response all the way from New York. The goal was to help the New York comedy community give back,” Ganeless said of the March 3 comedy event including Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Ramy Youssef and Hannah Berner at The Town Hall in Manhattan. during their difficult time.

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JUNE 28, 2013

Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In States including Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Maine, and many others have developed task forces on government contracting.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon’s announcement may once have included planned investment for New York City, after lawmakers cut a deal with the company in early 2019 to bring jobs to Long Island City, Queens as part of a highly publicized competition of sorts the company held to attract bids from municipalities around the country.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 31, 2013

You can’t go wrong when you do right, either in technology (Soko is constantly launching new online products to help make the e-commerce transition a smooth one for its vendors) or with this brand. 5) The startup that donates clothing to the homeless as you shop.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

VisionLink''s Role VisionLink customers are among those providing 2-1-1 services, from New York to Washington state, from Florida to Maine, and here in our own state of Colorado--and for many regional and metropolitan systems in between.

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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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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2022

The National Labor Relations Board is preparing to issue a complaint against Amazon alleging the company illegally fired a worker at one of its New York warehouses, unless the company settles the case first. At issue is whether Daequan Smith, an organizer with the newly-formed Amazon Labor Union (ALU), was fired for trying to organize.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I live now in New York, but before moving there in the autumn, I was based in London for a few years. Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. BlueGreen Alliance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

First, no trains, buses, or planes moved to or from New York City. We turned on CNN and watched together as scenes from New Jersey and New York flashed across the screen. This puts New York City’s economic disparity on par with places like Sierra Leone or Namibia. I wanted to get them to safety.

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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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The Next Web

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The poem on the Statue of Liberty was a symbol of hope for a better life for European immigrants arriving in New York: ‘ Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free; The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, Tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!’

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Candid

DECEMBER 3, 2021

A weekly update with the latest news from PND. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has announced a $125 million pledge from trustee emeritus Oscar L. million, with a focus on advancing racial justice and ending the cycles of mass incarceration and mass homelessness. December 2, 2021.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

A number of investors now call Austin home after relocating from the Bay Area and New York City. Doing so is a bit like trying to compare New York City with Hong Kong. The lack of affordable housing has also contributed to the dramatic increase in homelessness. They are different and that is okay.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

consumers, including at therapists’ offices and homeless shelters. A seminal piece from The New York Times showed the various ways location data — typically from smartphones — can be used to track a person’s movements, especially when correlated with publicly available records.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

California and New York have the most unions in the dataset, with 3,790 and 3,777 organizations respectively. In that campaign, the CTU pursued demands beyond their own wages and benefits to aid their students, including: smaller class sizes, a nurse and counselor in every school, and resources for homeless students.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Forney continually helped other youth that were facing similar difficult circumstances, and he became a public advocate for improving safety for homeless youth until his life was tragically cut short. Operating 12 branches throughout the boroughs of New York City, the Ali Forney Center was founded in 2002 in his memory.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2023

Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is a New York Times bestseller, written as a letter to his teenage son. Black Americans make up 40 percent of the homeless population despite only representing 13 percent of the general population. You can support their work here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders) is a New York City-based organization that provides services and advocates for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders. One of the projects this organization is working on is called Connect 4 Life , a mobile phone program for LGBT homeless youth. Sage CyberCenters.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2008

Instead, Jenny is a “cause marketer” in charge of Meyer's charitable efforts to help homeless and disadvantaged people. Care2's Dana Weissman sat down with Jenny to discuss her position at Union Square Hospitality Group and her role in shaping the high-stakes game of cause marketing in New York City and across the country.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2011

As part of her Monster Ball tour, she partnered with Virgin Mobile and Volunteermatch to give free premium concert tickets to volunteers who gave eight hours or more lending a hand to organizations serving homeless youth. Her call to action inspired over 30,000 hours of community service and a new wave of attention on homeless youth.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

New York, NY: Facebook for Nonprofits: Moving Your Marketing Beyond the Like. San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Meetup Group Monthly Meetup. Wednesday, November 13. Thursday, November 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Are people more compassionate to animals, more generous towards the homeless? In terms of thinking about strategy, it’s really grounding because it gives you an opportunity to see that the front page of The New York Times isn’t the world,” Dearborn observes. “If Is there more or less love for the ocean than last week?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

New York is the most generous state for online giving; Mississippi and North Dakota are the least generous. homeless.??? most commonly, between 10am and noon. Most online giving goes to disaster agencies, followed by animal-related causes. Top searches are disaster related, plus ???children,??? children,??? ???cancer,???

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 13, 2019

To make sure its medical centers are addressing these needs, Kaiser Permanente is partnering with Unite Us , a New York-based technology company, to build the infrastructure that will power referrals and data collection to evaluate outcomes. Karen Kahn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

I signed up to help in whatever way I could to promote and support this idea and Henry Timms. In yesterday’s New York Times, David Bornstein wrote an excellent piece that described the results and how this participatory, community-owned campaign has exploded into an global day of giving in just four years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2015

Perhaps you’ve been reading about Gen Z and that they’re tech savvy, passionate about doing good, and might just shake up philanthropy. I recently read an article in the New York Times about conference for Gen Z who were learning entrepreneurial skills. Their commitment, passion, and vision is inspiring.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Take shower selfie challenge to fight AIDS | Business Standard News : "If you are done with the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, pull up your shirts for the HIV Shower Selfie Challenge.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

Data from FDI Markets * , the Financial Times’ cross-border investment monitoring service, indicates that London has attracted the highest number of foreign direct investments ( FDI ) into tech from international companies for the past few years, ahead of Singapore, Dubai, and New York. due to political events. Hire ground.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. For example, 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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

Without it, it can be difficult to find a home, apply for a job, sign up for classes, make homeless shelter reservations or find soup kitchens. have learned how to program on mobile devices, and people who are homeless have received subsidized services and devices.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Nicolas Umuhizi.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. The road trippers also made stops for advocacy events in Boston and New York before concluding in Washington DC. Connecting and enriching a national movement. Recruiting applicants to a fellowship program. Trail-blazing Road Warriors.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Buffalo, New York: Essential Data Management. Decatur, Illinois: Free and Low-Cost Resources for Nonprofit Software. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Wednesday, October 11, 2017. Tuesday, October 17, 2017.

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