Jim Mcfarland Joliet is the founder and President of Animal Care Assistance, a non-profit assisting and rescuing homeless pets from high kill shelters and other abusive environments across the United States. Founded in 2013, Animal Care Assistance has saved over 5,000 dogs across 14 states through coordination with hundreds of other animal rescue organizations. He became a vegan in 2011, and currently volunteers at The Little Red Barn – Church of Compassion, in Joliet during their weekly Pet Food Pantry distribution. He enjoys rescuing strays and dogs that have been abused or neglected, promoting veganism and social justice, hiking, bicycling, art, reading music history
Silent Beacon is essentially a panic button for social workers, allowing you to summon help at a moment’s notice, quickly and easily.
Here’s how it works: if you find yourself in an emergency, simply press the easy-to-touch button on the lightweight, portable device.
The device, when paired with the free Silent Beacon safety app, triggers an alert that goes out to your pre-stored contacts.
These contacts can include friends, family, and even emergency personnel!
Once you trigger an alert, your contacts will receive a text, email, and/or voice message indicating that you need help.
GPS technology enables first responders to immediately pinpoint your location in real-time and get to you as quickly as possible.The Silent Beacon is affordable, too.
If you want a job with purpose, fulfillment, and a lot of choices, consider career in social work.
Social workers are people who care for others, who want to improve things, who want to alleviate poverty, and who want to make the world a better place.
Being a social worker does not come with monetary or material benefits.
People who want to make the world a better place are, on the whole, optimistic.
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I’m Jim Fournier, a serial social entrepreneur with three decades of experience in tech and the co-founder and CEO of Tru Social.
Today, I’m sharing the story of launching Tru Social.
Like most big ideas, Tru Social was a long time coming.
The idea had its genesis in the early 2000s, at the Planetwork conference.
Tru Social: Brand Story by Jim Fournier (Co-founder and CEO)
