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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

Have Fun - Do Good

On March 19th, 2008, after spending 8 days in the hospital related to her multiple sclerosis, Cami Walker decided to give away one thing each day for 29 days : "I decided to do the 29-Day Giving Challenge as an experiment. Her goal is to inspire at least 2,000 people to commit to the 29-Day Giving Challenge by September 29, 2008.

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Once Upon a School: Help Dave Eggers' TED Wish Come True

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--Helen Caldicott In 2002, Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and What is the What, co-founded a writing and tutoring center, 826 Valencia in San Francisco. This week Eggers is one of three recipients of the 2008 TED Prize during the TED Conference in Monterey, CA.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. For me, it was interesting because living in San Francisco, the Tenderloin fascinates me. We launched in November of 2008. When I first heard David Cohn talk about Spot.us

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

Have Fun - Do Good

I'll be starting the challenge again on October 30, 2008 so that the 29th day of my challenge will be on November 27, 2008, American Thanksgiving. Below is an edited transcript of an interview from October 11, 2008 with Cami Walker, the founder of the 29-Day Giving Challenge, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

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Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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