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Engine for social innovation, entrepreneurship and community service @UTAustin

Austin, TX
Joined July 2020
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@ImpactFactoryUT exec. dir., @DrMichaelHole, and former innovator-in-residence, @MB_BennettMD, give practical policy advice for improving children’s health via @dallasnews👇 #WhatStartsHere #ChangeStartsHere #HookEm @UTAustin, @DellMedSchool, @TheLBJSchool
As a pediatrician, I see poverty's marks all over my patients' growing bodies and minds. Kids in lower-income families are roughly twice as likely to suffer poor mental health, among other unacceptable truths. The good news? We know how to help at-risk children. 1/2
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The Impact Factory retweeted
Less than two weeks left to apply to Impact Corps! Austin-area social-impact organizations can apply now to work with @utaustin students for two semesters beginning in late August 2023. @ImpactFactoryUT @TheLBJSchool teapaw.org/DellMedSchool/status/1…
Interested in helping address social impact challenges from a team of @utaustin students? @ImpactFactoryUT is accepting applications for Impact Corps, a program that pairs student teams with Austin-area organizations. Apply by 6/19: bit.ly/457s76f
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I’m really proud to chair @Dollarfor_, a tech nonprofit that crushes medical bills. Thanks, @FastCompany, for shining a light on #MedicalDebt and our efforts to improve Americans’ lives and livelihoods. More good to come! fastcompany.com/90899091/dol….
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We’re on a mission to measurably improve health & economic opportunity among vulnerable ppl in #Austin & across the United States. Check out our progress & how we’re doing it in @DellMedSchool’s feature below👇 #WhatStartsHere #ChangeStartsHere 🤘 Cc: @TheLBJSchool, @UTAustin
At @ImpactFactoryUT, students across @UTAustin are improving health through social entrepreneurship — like @sjspiveyp, who expanded @Dollarfor_ to Central TX, helping relieve nearly $400K in medical debt for Austinites since last year. bit.ly/437Akpk @TheLBJSchool
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Thanks, President @JCHartzell! Forever grateful to serve alongside and learn from @UTAustin students, faculty, staff, alumni and other trailblazers. #ChangeStartsHere
Congratulations, @DrMichaelHole! Your work has helped make our city, our state and our world a better place! #WhatStartsHere
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Austinites are innovative, service-driven people who breed hope & push boundaries for the common good. I'm deeply moved to be recognized as one of their own. Huge thanks to my patients, students, clients & colleagues @UTAustin, @TheLBJSchool, @DellMedSchool, @NotleyHQ & more.
Incredible news! LBJ School policy professor and @DellMedSchool pediatrician @DrMichaelHole wins @austinunder40 top honor: Austinite of the Year 🤘 Congratulations, Michael! Learn more: bit.ly/42AFqKL
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Thanks to @UTAustin students, @MiracleMessages, a nonprofit in @ImpactFactoryUT’s accelerator, served 400+ ppl experiencing #homelessness in TX in 2023. Learn more here: miraclemessages.org #ChangeStartsHere @DellMedSchool, @TheLBJSchool
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This just in: @ImpactFactoryUT’s Executive Director, @DrMichaelHole, joins the new National #HealthEquity Advisory Board of @CVSHealth—America’s 4th largest company—to improve the health of marginalized people. #ChangeStartsHere @UTAustin, @DellMedSchool, @TheLBJSchool
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Check out @Dollarfor_, a member of @ImpactFactoryUT’s accelerator @UTAustin, on @NPR! We’re proud to be a small part of their mission to eliminate #MedicalDebt. youtube.com/watch?v=sPBF53vP…

Know someone who needs help? Send them to dollarfor.org/help #ChangeStartsHere
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@ImpactFactoryUT Innovator-in-Residence & @DellMedSchool student, @sjspiveyp, on @TelemundoAustin talking abt crushing #MedicalDebt via @Dollarfor_ to advance #HealthEquity. ¡Bravo! #ChangeStartHere @UTAustin
Gracias a ⁦@TelemundoAustin⁩ por entrevistarme sobre ⁦@Dollarfor_⁩ y cómo estamos ayudando a pacientes que no pueden pagar sus facturas médicas. Proud to be leading this fight locally! CC: ⁦@ImpactFactoryUT⁩ ⁦@DrMichaelHole⁩ telemundoaustin.com/news/loc…
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@ImpactFactoryUT is all about using smart business to make lives better, especially of America’s most vulnerable people. Check out @DrMichaelHole’s recent piece in @nejmcatalyst👇#EquityIsGoodBusiness #ChangeStartsHere @UTAustin @DellMedSchool @TheLBJSchool
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@ImpactFactoryUT’s Executive Director, @DrMichaelHole, is senior author on a new @nejmcatalyst paper arguing that hospitals should invest in #HealthEquity to bolster their bottom lines, cultures, and reputations👇 #ChangeStartsHere @UTAustin, @DellMedSchool, @TheLBJSchool🤘
Doing the right thing is good for business. "Hospitals that invest in community health equity—reducing [...] the determinants that adversely affect excluded or marginalized groups—can strengthen their financial performance, organizational culture, and reputation." 1/3
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We’re crushing medical debt in Austin! @Dollarfor_ Austin team received 26 intakes this month requesting help with half a million dollars in hospital bills. We’ve eliminated $50K in debt this month, so far, and we’re not slowing down! cc: @ImpactFactoryUT @DrMichaelHole
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Launching & scaling orgs w/ #SocialImpact is only part of our work @UTAustin. We’re also in the biz of teaching #Entrepreneurship & rigorously studying our programs, evidenced by 2 recent peer-reviewed articles @JHUPress alongside @CVSHealth & @MeharryMedical. #ChangeStartsHere
My students are entrepreneurs with measurable social impact AND published authors. Check out @goodapplefoods & Early Bird in @JHUPress' #JHCPU, thanks to @CVSHealth & @MeharryMedical's call for papers on #PublicPrivatePartnerships advancing #HealthEquity. muse.jhu.edu/issue/49034
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If you need some hope this season, watch how @ImpactFactoryUT’s student-entrepreneur, @sjspiveyp, works alongside @Dollarfor_ & @austinpcc to crush #MedicalDebt & improve health. Cc: @DellMedSchool @TheLBJSchool @UTAustin
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