Homelessness & Poverty

It's the last day to DONATE in 2025, and tomorrow is the first day to DONATE in 2026. Choose your day. I just finished reading "Effective Altruism" by Jacob Bauer! It's REALLY worth a read. If you are one of my ex Technology Industry/Amazon Web Services (AWS) co-retirees, FLEX your DAF! Think about donating to United Ways of California's DxF Data Interoperability Project. "Effective Altruism" talks about finding scale of impact, FIT of mission, and solvability of the need.

Lightning Step and United Ways of California Collaborate with OC United Way/211OC and Housing for Health CA to Help Community-Based Organizations Deliver Better Coordinated Social Care to Orange County Residents Experiencing Homelessness. READ MORE HERE: http://bit.ly/4m1xo72.

Privileged to be working with Peter Manzo, President of United Ways of California, and his nine 211 Contact Centers, as they embrace the digital transformation of their teams and technology helping over 1 million client contacts a year. Since starting with Pete and his team last July, we’ve made great headway in framing a modern data architecture for United Ways of CA 211’s, to allow better automation of Closed Loop Referrals in 26 Counties in CA.