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JANUARY 23, 2009

My six 2008 Activist Resolutions went so-so: I did. Volunteer in Oakland outside of my home office, and away from my computer. Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag. 2009 resolution New Year volunteer donate Oakland local business Flickr photo credit: Downtown Oakland 2 uploaded by ChrisDag.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Saw him speak in 2007: Obama in Oakland. • And saw him speak again in 2008 at the September 11 Presidential Forum on Service. I've been following Barack Obama for about as long as I've written Have Fun * Do Good: • I wrote about his podcast in September 2005: Obama's podcasts and Clinton's version of Slamdance.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Green for All and Van Jones are both based in Oakland, CA (where I live) so I've been following their work for awhile. He was recently named as a TIME Magazine 2008 Hero of the Environment. Please spread the word to your peeps, and if you're planning on purchasing the book, please order it earlier than later.

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OCTOBER 15, 2008

For example, I live in Oakland, CA where according to an August 2008 Oakland Tribune article , 17.6% of Oakland residents are living in poverty. Here are 4 things you can do to alleviate poverty in your community: Volunteer year round.

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APRIL 18, 2008

Maybe together we can start up again during National Volunteer Week April 27-May 3, 2008. It makes me sad that the Oakland public libraries are so under-funded. How often do you volunteer? Personally, I'd like to start volunteering at my local library. Maybe I'll walk down to my local branch and see if they need some help.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

February 18, 2008 was the 2nd anniversary of the Big Vision Podcast ! Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. A big thanks to everyone who listens to the program and reads the interview transcripts here on Have Fun * Do Good. Over the past two years I have had the privilege of interviewing 30 "Big Visionaries."

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. Listen Read Nola Brantley, Parenting and Youth Enrichment Director, and the Coordinator of the Sexually Abused and Commercially Exploited Youth Program at the George P. Nola is now the Executive Director of Missey: Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth).

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AUGUST 8, 2008

Real Time Representation - How Social Media is Changing the Face of Government submitted by Erica O'Grady 2008 marked the year of the first Twitter from inside the Oval Office. re here to share real NPO Social Media stories and solutions that rock it and rock it good. Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

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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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In January, Cristi was named one of the 21 Leaders of the 21st Century for 2008 by Women's eNews. Hopefully sometime in 2008 we will be able to establish that office. It would be great to have as many as two to five new offices in 2008 as our goal. Last month I interviewed Cristi Hegranes, its Founder and President.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. Locally, we run a project called the Technology Empowerment Project of Oakland.

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JULY 31, 2009

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. We launched in November of 2008. When I first heard David Cohn talk about Spot.us Shortly afterwards, it was announced that Spot.us It's only been, what, like a year?

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JANUARY 16, 2009

" --Favianna Rodriguez Below is the edited transcript of a Big Vision Podcast interview from November 13, 2008 with Favianna Rodriguez, a political digital artist and printmaker based in Oakland, California. I do art that can be very universal, to anyone." But, art is universal like that. I mean, you can cross so many boundaries.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

The global financial crisis in 2008 also led labor unions to re-imagine new partnerships with various worker cooperatives, both in and out of the platform economy. The largest worker cooperative in the US, Cooperative Home Care Associates (CHCA), is a union co-op, whose homecare worker-owners has been affiliated with SEIU 1199 since 2003.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. At the moment, The Engage Network includes three "sectors": What's Your Tree? Below is an edited transcript of an interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She is the 2010 NTEN Award Winner and was named to the NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector in 2008. Marnie Webb is CEO of TechSoup’s new app development project, Caravan Studios. She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global.

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APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. We say, one way to do that is to kind of focus on Oakland, and make sure that there are people who are being trained, who are peered, to be a part of this new green economy right here in Oakland.

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