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We Reached Our First Goal on Patreon and Why It Matters

I am so very grateful! WE DID IT! Invisible People reached its first monthly goal on Patreon   / invisiblepeople   The financial support is fantastic but probably more important is I have hope again! I have a renewed hope that there will be enough support for Invisible People to create more impact and reach it's potential! I founded Invisible People almost ten years ago. Educating the general public on homelessness is more important than ever. Invisible People's impact has always been incredible, but it's nearly impossible to get the needed funding to cover even minimal expenses. Through most of the last decade, I worked another job and then gave what time I could to Invisible People. Now, thanks to Patreon and people like you supporting our work on social media, there is hope that some day soon I'll have the resources to work on Invisible People full time. Why this matters is we are never going to end homelessness until we educate the general public, yet Invisible People remains the only education-based non-profit working on a national level to end homelessness. Up to this point, our work has been mostly organic meaning our storytelling was based around trips where I was asked to speak or consult on marketing. Thanks to Patreon and the growth on YouTube that has also increased donations on our website, once we reach a few more monthly goals not only will I be able to put all of my efforts into this work, we will have the resources to make out storytelling intentional. Messaging is important. The general public holds deep-rooted visions of homelessness that is just not the truth and hinders the ability to get public support! To change those wrong paradigms, we need intentionally go to locations that are "hot spots" and help share the right stories that will influence positive change! Our recent work for the City of Los Angeles and the County of L.A. is a good example. We were able to use intentional storytelling with the right messaging to help pass Prop HHH and Measure H! For Prop HHH, 7 of the top 10 most popular posts came from Invisible People. Our reach was far above the LA Times or other media channels with much larger networks. Part of Invisible People's power is we are independent of the homeless services sector, and that allows us to be truly honest about system failures. Homeless services is broken, we don't make it easy for people to get out of homelessness, but most service providers are too scared to say anything out of the genuine fear they'll lose funding! With Invisible People's main funding coming from Patreon and other private donors, we can continue to tell it like it is - and for us - that means allowing homeless people to share their stories raw and unfiltered. I can't remember ever being so excited about Invisible People's future as I am right now! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! ________________________________________________ Subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/c/invisiblepe... Invisible People's website: http://invisiblepeople.tv Support Invisible People: https://invisiblepeople.tv/donate On Patreon:   / invisiblepeople   Invisible People's Social Media:    / invisiblepeople     / invisiblepeople     / invisiblepeople     / invisiblepeopletv   Mark Horvath's Twitter:   / hardlynormal   About Invisible People: Invisible People goes beyond the rhetoric, statistics, political debates, and limitations of social services to examine poverty in America via a medium that audiences of all ages can understand, and can't ignore. The vlog puts into context one of our nation's most troubling and prevalent issues through personal stories captured by the lens of Mark Horvath – its founder – and brings into focus the pain, hardship and hopelessness that millions face each day. One story at a time, videos posted on InvisiblePeople.tv shatter the stereotypes of America's homeless, force shifts in perception and deliver a call to action that is being answered by national brands, nonprofit organizations and everyday citizens now committed to opening their eyes and their hearts to those too often forgotten. Invisible People is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the way we think about people experiencing homelessness.