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Why Nonprofit Technology Sucks
On Monday Joel argued that technology has a role to play in helping people lift themselves out of poverty by connecting them to services and one another. As the founder of a technology social...
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How Social Entrepreneurs are Improving Lives and Changing the World
I sat in my chair riveted for the whole day listening to these idealistic, technologically savvy leaders of companies and non-governmental organizations describe how they are literally changing this...
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Study Finds Resistance to Homeless Management Information System Adoption
A study released in the March issue of Cityscape, a Housing and Urban Development (HUD) publication, investigated adoption of the Homeless Information Management System (HMIS) amongst a sample group of...
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Street Vendors Should Tweet, Even the Poor Ones
This year, the world has been captivated with the revolutions in the Middle East. Not surprisingly, the driving force behind the uprising has been the people themselves, leveraging the Internet and...
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Are Advocates too Quick to Judge the Homeless Hotspot Controversy?
I’m sure you’ve heard about the “homeless hotspot” controversy by now. In short, a Manhattan advertising agency provided free mobile hotspots to 13 homeless individuals interested in selling access to...
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Are Homelessness Agencies the New Future?
For years now, homelessness service agencies have been bashed as “old technology,” still stuck in the 1980s when it comes to helping people who are homeless. We imagine bunk beds in barren warehouses,...
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An American Umbrella Revolution
I stood in the middle of a Hong Kong thoroughfare that was typically jammed with cars and trucks. For the past couple of weeks, this street had been taken over by a group of mostly Hong Kong youth....
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