This last Thursday I was flying back from Alaska and noticed a few tweets with @invisiblepeople being directed at @garyvee.  I didn’t think much of it because I was exhausted. Then I received an email that Gary Vaynerchuk wanted to support InvisiblePeople.tv at Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge

Now get this! If we win InvisiblePeople.tv will get $50,000 to continue the fight against homelessness.

@garyvee, @ashong and @hardlynormal after Oprah Radio

As many of you know with your help we have done all this with ‘very little’ operational budget.  In fact, almost none! Imagine the impact we could have with $50,000!!!

Pepsi didn’t list all of my grant application. One of the crazy ideas I have this year is to develop an educational space for homeless people to learn social media and online tools/services we all take for granted. Besides the obvious employment and housing assistance, and researching other social services, getting more homeless people on social media will turn up the volume on the voice that needs to be heard.

Voting is simple. Just tweet using the tag #RefreshGary or click RefreshSxSW.com and vote for InvisiblePeople.tv. You can vote once every two hours .

Please vote and vote often. Please help spread the word about the Pepsi Refresh SxSW Challenge.  And please say thanks to @garyvee for believing in InvisiblePeople.tv.

There are no words to express how grateful I am for your support.

Hugs,

Mark

The following video played this morning when Pepsi announced the Refresh SxSW Challenge.

special thanks to Scott Parent and Drew Lucas for helping me make this video

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