[HOT] Copy/paste to help support HOT this holiday week

[Heather Leson]

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
heatherleson at gmail.com
Twitter: HeatherLeson
Blog: textontechs.com

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 7:30 PM, Tyler Radford <tyler.radford at hotosm.org>
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.
> -----
>
>
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