Thanks Tyler. Here is the post I wrote for Linked In.
Can you help fund Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team? We provide tools and training for map products that support Humanitarians. Please donate.hotosm.org #mapthedifference Heather Heather Leson [email protected] Twitter: HeatherLeson Blog: textontechs.com On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Tyler Radford <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > We're down to the last 10 days in the HOT 2015 funding campaign at > http://donate.hotosm.org > > If you've been waiting to make that last-minute gift to HOT, now is a > great time! And, if you file a tax return in the US, your contribution to > HOT can be deducted if made by Dec. 31. > > While a donation of any amount is immensely helpful, there's another way > you can contribute: Simply by sharing the amazing work you do with a friend > or family member. Feel free to copy/paste from below (adapted from your > tweets & posts!) > ----- > > > -----TWITTER----- > Only 10 days left to fund critical maps that get aid to disaster > survivors. Please help today donate.hotosm.org #mapthedifference > > How to spend 10 min volunteering with @hotosm & have a real impact on > lives of disaster survivors https://youtu.be/8wdzGKmZu-k #mapthedifference > > I volunteer my skills by mapping disasters from home! Will you join me? > https://youtu.be/8wdzGKmZu-k @hotosm #mapthedifference > > > -----FACEBOOK and EMAIL----- > > Hi Friends! > > I do not talk about it very often, but during disasters I help create maps > that get the right people and supplies to the right place at the right > time. And I do it all from my computer. How? > > Believe it not or not many places around the world are not mapped. That > means local communities can not plan for disasters, can not control local > development and governments and other NGOs can not easily provide things > like health and sanitation services. In addition, when disasters do > strike, responding organizations are hampered by the lack of maps and map > data. > > The organization I volunteer with is called @Humanitarian OpenStreetMap > Team (HOT). HOT lets anyone capable of using a web browser contribute to > disaster relief by mapping a vulnerable area online in OpenStreetMap. HOT > also works around the world to not only help local communities generate > maps and map data, but to infuse mapping, cartography and geographic > information systems skills into the local community in a sustainable way so > they can keep adding to and maintaining their map data in the future. > > Check out the impact these maps are having in this video: > https://youtu.be/8wdzGKmZu-k and the HOT donation campaign at > http://donate.hotosm.org > > Please share! The more people who know about our work the more volunteers > we get and the more we can accomplish. > ----- > > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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