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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

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Bring Me a Book is creating a "literacy ecosystem" via social media in Alameda and Santa Clara Counties. The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a civil rights and restorative justice organization for prisoners and for Oakland young adults. 250,000 Grant Winners. The program also helps everyone build credit scores.

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Win a copy of Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World

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Darius Graham is giving away a copy of his book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World to a lucky Have Fun * Do Good reader! While in Florida, Darius created Books All Around, Inc. , a nonprofit organization that promotes youth literacy. ordinary heroes book

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Ask Britt: How to make a second hand bookstore a positive force for good

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Just owning an independent bookstore is creating a positive force for good, in my book (no pun intended). For example, we have a small store in Oakland called Issues that sells international newspapers and magazines. Make it easy for people to give away the used books you don't want to purchase from them.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We just recently moved to downtown Oakland, and we talk about ourselves as a school to build a movement. And in terms of how I got involved with SOUL, I was actually teaching for a very brief period in the Oakland middle schools. I don’t know if I have a favorite book.

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Ask Britt: How can I combine the creative arts with social impact?

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Streetside Stories "Through the power of storytelling, Streetside values and cultivates young people’s voices, fostering educational equity and building community, literacy and arts skills." Photojournalist Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark.

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