The Heartbreaking Text That Inspired a Crisis Help Line | Nancy Lublin | TED Talks

When a young woman texted DoSomething.org with a heartbreaking cry for help, the organization responded by opening a nationwide Crisis Text Line to provide an outlet for people in pain. Nearly...

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A girl I've never met beforechanged my life and the life of thousands of other people.I'm the CEO of DoSomething.org.It's one of the largest organizations in the world for young people.In fact it's bigger than the Boy Scouts in the United States.And we're not homophobic.(Laughter)And it's true -- the way we communicate with young people is by text,because that's how young people communicate.So we'll run over 200 campaigns this year,things like collecting peanut butter for food pantries,or making Valentine's Day cards for senior citizens who are homebound.And we'll text them.And we'll have a 97 percent open rate.It'll over-index Hispanic and urban.We collected 200,000 jars ...