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Online marketplace connects the homeless with tasks in exchange for food
document Distributed Knowledge

TaskTurtle — which is currently in beta — enables users to crowdsource skilled and under-utilized workers to carryout household tasks, for example painting a garage door. Users can post their task...

Harshida PatelDec 07, 2011 03:15 pm GMT874 views
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Online marketplace connects the homeless with tasks in exchange for food
Which of these five mobile apps will best help the homeless?
document Distributed Knowledge, Tools

The contest was hosted by Challenge.gov, the U.S. government’s site for crowdsourcing tech solutions to a variety of problems. Challenge.gov is run by ChallengePost, a hub for contests that was...

Harshida PatelJun 07, 2012 05:10 am GMT860 views
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Which of these five mobile apps will best help the homeless?
Help End Homelessness With This Simple Survey App
article Tools

The 100,000 Homes Campaign is trying to change that with its new mobile-friendly app, Homeless Connector. The campaign, which is a national movement to find permanent homes for 100,000 chronically...

Adam FrazerNov 15, 2012 02:39 am GMT1225 views
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Help End Homelessness With This Simple Survey App
New crowdfunding site aims to help homeless
article Crowdfunding, Tools

Launched by Toronto's Helix Commerce International, the new crowdfunding software and services offering is called CrowdFundChoice.ca. With sponsors that include RBC< TD Canada Trust and...

Jason RobbinsNov 24, 2012 10:02 am GMT1565 views
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New crowdfunding site aims to help homeless
Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts
document Crowdfunding

Do Whatever It Takes is a creative and fun way to take on a serious issue – youth homelessness. Over 2 million young people in the US and Canada experience homelessness each year.What makes...

Fritz SchaeferNov 29, 2011 12:32 am GMT1115 views
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Online Charity Platform Raises Funds Through Volunteers Doing Stunts
.RU → The internet helps the homeless, the less fortunate and the creative
document Crowdfunding, Tools

The Kickstarter project has spawned similar services- for example, Fondomat, which Peter Lekarev have covered on .Ru. It’s kind of like Kickstarter, but for charities – so technically the target...

Samuel BennettMar 15, 2012 12:33 am GMT1339 views
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.RU  →  The internet helps the homeless, the less fortunate and the creative
Destination: Home and Housing 1000 Use Social Media and Crowd Funding to Help the Homeless
document Crowdfunding

Crowd funding works on the principle that a lot of small contributions conveniently made by cell phone or computer through social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google, will add up to make a...

Jayne AnnAug 02, 2012 07:17 am GMT964 views
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Destination: Home and Housing 1000 Use Social Media and Crowd Funding to Help the Homeless
Homeless Shelter Turns To Crowdfunding Site FundMyWish.com To Remain Open
document Crowdfunding

"We decided to turn to FundMyWish.com to try to raise awareness of our situation because we know that a lot of small donations can amount to something big. We are trying to raise enough...

Jayne AnnSep 13, 2012 10:31 am GMT375 views
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Homeless Shelter Turns To Crowdfunding Site FundMyWish.com To Remain Open
The Next 26 - Ending Homelessness with Housing First in Fredericton
video Crowdfunding, Tools

With sponsors that include RBC< TD Canada Trust and Community Action Group on Homelessness, the CrowdFundChoice's first campaign is called Next 26. It's a charitable donation...

Jason RobbinsNov 24, 2012 10:33 am GMT847 views
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The Next 26 - Ending Homelessness with Housing First in Fredericton
Crowdfunding Undies – Teen Entrepreneur Helping the Homeless
document Crowdfunding

UnMentionables is a bath & body company created by Camryn Main, 13, of Marysville, Ohio. The company is making a difference, giving back to the community by using 10% of their profits to buy...

Benjamin FosselNov 30, 2012 08:39 am GMT696 views
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Crowdfunding Undies – Teen Entrepreneur Helping the Homeless
Turkey earthquake: Twitter plea for help gets 17,000 responses
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation, Tools

At the heart of these efforts was Erhan Çelik, a journalist for Turkey's Kanal 7 TV station. Around five hours after the quake struck in Van province, as it become clear that many thousands...

Benjamin FosselOct 24, 2011 12:48 pm GMT2031 views
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Turkey earthquake: Twitter plea for help gets 17,000 responses
Citizen X by Julio Bittencourt
video Crowdfunding

Citizen X is a crowdfunding project on Emphas.is which takes the viewer to Sao Paulo, by way of Brazilian photographer Julio Bittencourt’s lens. Julio Bittencourt has been documenting housing...

Harshida PatelApr 02, 2012 01:26 am GMT1195 views
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Citizen X by Julio Bittencourt
24-Hour “Design-A-Thon” Crowdsourcing Event Creates Full Slate of Marketing Tools for Safe Haven Family Shelter
document Crowd Creativity, Distributed Knowledge

Led by Ian Rhett, CEO of CivicActions, http://www.civicactions.com, and co-founder Jessica Murray, “Design-A-Thon” is a 24-hour volunteer event that brings together a diverse group of...

Jayne AnnMay 17, 2012 01:01 pm GMT1260 views
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24-Hour “Design-A-Thon” Crowdsourcing Event Creates Full Slate of Marketing Tools for Safe Haven Family Shelter
A serious musical you can blame on Rio
document Crowdfunding

Crowdsourcing on Kickstarter.com raised $40,000 to mount a bare-bones production for the NYMF festival, along with $80,000 from a private backer. Very early in its development Mirvish Productions...

Jason RobbinsJul 26, 2012 06:33 am GMT1188 views
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A serious musical you can blame on Rio
Destination: Home and Housing 1000 Use Social Media and Crowd Funding to Help the Homeless
document Crowdfunding

Destination: Home and Housing 1000 have turned to social media and crowd funding as a way to raise money to furnish homes for the 1,000 homeless individuals in Santa Clara County that they hope...

Fritz SchaeferAug 01, 2012 01:43 pm GMT882 views
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Destination: Home and Housing 1000 Use Social Media and Crowd Funding to Help the Homeless
Local Developers Use Crowdfunding to Build Game About Homeless Canadians
article Crowdfunding

Last Pick Productions is currently fundraising on crowdfunding site '' Kickstarter '' to develop a game called iBeg. As the "i" implies, it's a game for iOS...

Adam FrazerOct 27, 2012 02:44 am GMT828 views
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Local Developers Use Crowdfunding to Build Game About Homeless Canadians
EarlyShares Unites with Chapman Partnership-Miami to Fight Homelessness in Miami, FL
document Crowdfunding

The charitable campaign, dubbed “Empowering the Homeless”, intends to create awareness of this issue within the Miami community, inform people of the amazing programs the Chapman Partnership has...

Pablo BracciniNov 02, 2012 12:29 am GMT1001 views
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EarlyShares Unites with Chapman Partnership-Miami to Fight Homelessness in Miami, FL
Teen Entrepreneur Rings in New Year By Helping the Homeless With UnMentionables
document Crowdfunding

Camryn is currently running a funding-raising campaign on CrowdfundingKids.com to acquire expansion funding for her business. A large portion of the startup costs include the design and printing of...

Samuel BennettJan 03, 2013 03:11 am GMT773 views
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Teen Entrepreneur Rings in New Year By Helping the Homeless With UnMentionables
Watch A Fight Ringside with Mike Tyson
document Crowdfunding

Mike Tyson has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for homeless and underprivileged kids. Tyson, a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world, has decided to make his vision...

Harshida PatelFeb 13, 2013 10:50 am GMT538 views
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Watch A Fight Ringside with Mike Tyson
Ohio Teen Entrepreneur Gets Angel Investments To Launch Business
document Crowdfunding

The company is making a difference, giving back to the community by using 10% of their profits to buy undergarments that are then distributed to homeless shelters/clothing closets all around...

Luis Enrique MoralesFeb 21, 2013 04:34 am GMT707 views
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Ohio Teen Entrepreneur Gets Angel Investments To Launch Business
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