Invisible People

Since July, Mark Horvath has been traveling the United States meeting with unhoused individuals and families, documenting their stories, and putting them online at invisiblepeople.tv.  Mark's work differs greatly from mine at Idealistics, where I focus on the technical aspect of social services, quantifying social impact and evaluating community needs with a macro lens.

Mark's work is decidedly micro, capturing the stories and pain experienced by homeless Americans across the country.  The stories are powerful.  The stories are important.

I've argued before, and continue to do so, that we in the social service sector need to be more technical, more focused on the bottom line of materially improving the lives of the poor.  But what Mark does is the necessary counterbalance to the work we do in the social service sector.  No other individual or organization does a better job of explaining the plight of the homeless to the general public.

Mark's work is like a persistent marketing campaign on behalf of every agency working toward ending homelessness.  As a sector we owe Mark our considerable gratitude.  In order for Mark to be able to continue his work, we owe him our financial support.

Please join us at Idealistics in making a donation to invisiblepeople.tv so Mark can continue making those who are invisible in society, those who you and I in the sector do see, ever more visible to a wider audience.