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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

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I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. We have these little 29 Gift cards that people would tie onto the flowers, and she actually made a couple vases full of those, and took them into a local coffee shop. Now there are organized events happening locally. There's actually a homeless couple who is taking part.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

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Last week, after the election, BlogHer co-founder Lisa Stone, asked What Will You Do To Change America? So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." We are testing it on the ground with these social champions, and with curriculum, and with local leaders.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

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You don't want to write about everything, because then people won't find you in the same way as when they search on Google about "homelessness issues", or "the environment." And as Britt said, I also am the Art and Media Director at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights , which is based out of Oakland. We have four initiatives.

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