On the heels of launching donation gift cards for the homeless, HandUp hosted a community outreach day this past Friday in San Francisco to continue to bring awareness to homelessness, as well as give ...

San Francisco is so often highlighted for its wealth that it can be shocking to see how severe the city's homeless problem has gotten. Walk down a street in almost any highly-trafficked neighborhood ...

Google recently announced a $500,000 grant to Rose Broome's uber-cool B Corp startup, HandUp. Rose's venture allows donors to hyper-focus their donations to individuals with specific needs, an ...

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In slightly bittersweet news, startup HandUp is selling itself to the Detroit-based South Oakland Shelter for an undisclosed amount. This isn’t your typical Silicon Valley exit where the founders and ...

In a city with 6,686 homeless people at last count, it is safe to say there is a lot of work to be done. Now ranking second in homelessness to New York City, San Francisco continues to take a ...

The new HandUp iPhone app hopes to give the homeless a leg up by letting people donate directly to a person in need by simply sending a text. Here’s how it works: HandUp creates an online profile with ...

Rose Broome has always had a knack for problem-solving, a skill she once put to use as a data scientist and COO for a social gaming company geared towards self-improvement. But in the winter of 2012, ...

MILTON — The HandUP Foundation must raise its fees to take televisions and monitors from the public because it has become too expensive to absorb the rising costs of recycling those electronics. The ...

Cotton, foam, and steel make up 75% of a mattress’s weight.HandUp sells those materials to other companies that will reuse them. Foam ultimately becomes carpet padding. Cotton will be ground up to ...

A startup that's been called "a Kickstarter for the homeless," HandUp Pbc, has raised $850,000 in seed funding, co-founder and Chief Executive Rose Broome told Venture Capital Dispatch. The funding ...