[Advisors] VCN's streetmessenger service

[Executive Director]

Very cool. Thanks for sending it along Marita. And congrats Tracey and VCN! 

Shelley Robinson 
Executive Director 
National Capital FreeNet/Libertel de la Capital nationale 
206-1305 Richmond Rd. 
Ottawa, ON 
K2B 7Y4 
(613) 721-1773 ext. 1001 


From: "Tracey Axelsson" <vcned at vcn.bc.ca> 
To: "Marita Moll" <mmoll at ca.inter.net> 
Cc: "TC Advisors" <advisors at tc.ca> 
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 1:12:58 PM 
Subject: Re: [Advisors] VCN's streetmessenger service 

Thanks Marita! 
VCN received funds from CIRA to create it in the first place! 
Then we had some funds from Telus to get focus groups and ideas on how to change it for a wider purpose. 
Now we have funding to take it across Canada from: 
CIRA 
Employmnet and Social Development Canada - Innovation in Homelessness 
Vancouver's Peter Wall and Bob Rennie. 


We are very ready to make change! 

all the best, Tracey! 
----------------- 
Tracey Axelsson 
Executive Director - Vancouver Community Network (VCN) 
280 - 111 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 1H4 
t: 778.724.0241 

Consider the environment before printing. 

VCN offers great services to all for IT support and web development at very affordable rates. 
We deeply appreciate your referral of Tech|team & Web|team services. 

Our social enterprise work supports VCN's charitable efforts; providing free access to the Internet, email, and computer access to youth, seniors and vulnerable people in our community. 
-------------------- 

Personally however, I have always considered autonomy to be a bigger builder of trust than anonymity. 
Garth Graham 


On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 5:20 PM, Marita Moll < mmoll at ca.inter.net > wrote: 





Hello advisors. Just wanted to share this article about VCN's streetmessenger service -- partially funded through the CIRA CIP grants. Congratulations to Tracey Axelson for this wonderful initiative 
-------------------------- 


StreetMessenger sends homeless youth real-time updates via SMS on shelter beds 

Betakit | August 22, 2017 

http://betakit.com/streetmessenger-sends-homeless-youth-real-time-updates-via-sms-on-shelter-beds/ StreetMessenger uses SMS to send messages to the cell phones of homeless and street-involved youth with program information and real-time updates on shelter beds. 

Marita 

_______________________________________________ 
Advisors mailing list 
Advisors at tc.ca 
http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/advisors 






_______________________________________________ 
Advisors mailing list 
Advisors at tc.ca 
http://victoria.tc.ca/mailman/listinfo/advisors 
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://victoria.tc.ca/pipermail/advisors/attachments/20170829/d00f5760/attachment-0001.html>