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Tag Archives: innovation
How to Help Homeless People? Panhandle for Them.
Oct 8, 2012 – 8:26 pm
When you think about it, the organizations working to help those people who are forced to beg on our streets really aren’t that different.
We, the benevolent caretakers of people hurting on the streets, do our own form of panhandling. We send out letters asking for money. We tweet and post our stories on Facebook, hoping they will inspire people to give a few dollars. We talk about the people we serve with generous philanthropists, with the goal of receiving a big check.
How One Act of Charity Changed My Life
Jun 4, 2012 – 7:43 pm
If my own story is any indication, these new acts of charity can change people’s lives forever. I have experienced it first hand. I asked the !deation community to hit “fast forward” and picture the future. Could they see where that orphaned child, hungry and barefoot, would be in 30 years?
I can. Because I am that child.
Occupy Movement Underscores Importance of Creating and Building
Oct 13, 2011 – 8:30 am
The last several weeks, some of us have been keeping up to date with the Occupy Movement . Originating in New York City, and sprouting in various cities across the country, including my beloved Los Angeles, protestors are taking to the street and camping out to demand economic equality.
Los Angeles even approved a resolution to support the protesters, and major unions and organizing groups are supporting them too.
Why we Struggle to Develop Innovative Solutions to end Poverty and Homelessness
Jan 12, 2011 – 5:10 am
On Monday Joel argued on this site that the social sector should take a cue from the consumer electronics industry and move toward innovation and iteration in solving social problems. As the founder of a technology social enterprise myself, focused on developing database technologies that aid agencies in better helping lift people out of poverty, [...]
A Lesson for Homeless Advocates from the Consumer Electronics Show
Jan 10, 2011 – 6:27 am
I’m walking among a crowd of eager techies in a cavernous convention center just off the Las Vegas strip. I feel like I am being bumped along an indoor sidewalk of a packed Tokyo street. The bells and whistles, and flashing lights, almost sound like the Vegas casino next door, but instead they are the [...]
