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26 November 2007

November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month

As many of you know, November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month . On November 13, Standup for Kids in LA held a candle light vigil for the 10,000 children who are homeless in the LA area - 79% of them unsheltered, 13 die each day due to physical assault, illness, or suicide. But this was no ordinary candle light vigil. It was the modern day equivalent - using cell phones to illuminate the shadows that homeless youth live in. Concerned citizens can also use their cell phones to add their Read More...

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 2:00 PM by Creative Apricot | 0 Comments

Filed under: General News, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Web 2.0, Activism

23 October 2007

How to Use the Social Web for Social Change

Britt Bravo of Have Fun * Do Good has an excellent post about using the social web for social change. In the nonprofit sector, online activism has become much more than sending an email to Congress or making a donation. Organizations today are engaging their constituents to upload pictures, text and videos and share their story with the whole world. Britt feels that a lot of activists know that there are many kinds of social web tools available to them, but they aren't sure how to find them, or use Read More...

Posted Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:04 PM by Creative Apricot | 2 Comments

Filed under: Associations, Non-profit technology, General non-profit interest, nptech, Web 2.0, Best practices, Blogging, Social networking, Activism

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