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JULY 3, 2011

"I think as cooks there's something sort of innate in us that's about sharing and being generous and giving to people." She's known for the Pop-Up General Store , Tartine Afterhours dinners , Home Ec Cooking Classes , and the nationwide Bakesale for Japan that raised $140,000. workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Live stream a featured room with celebrities, or use other zoom rooms for other people to join in a poker tournament. In April, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon ran a celebrity poker tournament, and people like Sarah Silverman had funny things to say as they joined to keep things interesting. Have a virtual poker night!

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AUGUST 29, 2010

She is also co-host of the radio show, The Queens of Green on Green 960 , which you can also be downloaded as a podcast. I just *loved* this book, and also enjoy Temra's show, so I was super excited to interview her for the Big Vision Podcast. Overall, was there a theme among the stories of the women that you interviewed?

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JUNE 29, 2017

One hundred is the highest and you generally want someone with a Klout score over 40 and cultivate those people into what Jeanette calls, “social ambassadors.”. VIP’s are the people in your database with a Klout score of 70 or more. It tells you how interested the people in your database are with your work.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

EngAGE is a nonprofit that changes aging, and the way people think about aging, by transforming senior apartment communities into vibrant centers of learning, wellness and creativity. You can listen to the interview on the Arts and Healing Network's website , through iTunes , or on the player below.

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JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. Britt Bravo: Hi, welcome to the Big Vision Podcast, where we talk with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

My in-box was so full of have fun, do good books, films, events and classes to share with you I decided to gather them all into one post. Grandmother Power Photo journalist Paola Gianturco (who I interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast in 2007 ) has a new book out, Grandmother Power: A Global Phenomenon. I'm completely biased!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. Over the past three years, the organization has grown and added a bunch of exciting new programs, so I asked her back to the Big Vision Podcast to talk about them.

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JULY 12, 2011

One of the books in my summer reading pile is Eli Pariser’s The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You. Last week, my Networked Nonprofi t co-author Alison Fine recently interviewed the author on her monthly Chroncile of Philanthropy podcast.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

She blogs and podcasts at Tranquility du Jour and tweets at @kimberlywilson. Through volunteering, donating classes to community raffles, and holding events to raise money for various causes, I've always hoped that I was planting seeds of happiness for others. You can follow her on Facebook at facebook.com/kimberlywilson.

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JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Today's Big Vision Podcast transcript is from an interview with arts activist, Alli Chagi-Starr. You can hear the orginal podcast on Gcast , Odeo or iTunes. Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. And I work here at Ella Baker Center.

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JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve also happens to be the fiancé of Mei-ying Ho, who I interviewed last month. We started off in 1997, initially organizing welfare recipients.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 8, 2010

Below is an edited transcript of the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast site , or through the iTunes Music Store. She is no longer cooking out of her home (it's illegal to cook out of your home and sell the food, though people do it). It has a business plan. She has her licenses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Our anger if anything was driving people who did not already agree with us, away from us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold? What's going on here?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

I was thrilled when Zainab Salbi, Women for Women International's Founder and CEO, agreed to an interview with me for the Big Vision Podcast. Please note that there is a graphic description of what one women endured, but the rest of the interview is very uplifting--I promise! edited transcript below). We will lose our success.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Before the appointment, I decided to go to my favorite belly dance fitness class, ShimmyPop! I wanted to go to one last dance class before the doctor told me I couldn't anymore; a last meal sort of thing. I asked Heather for the class playlist, so I could share it with you. at Hipline. It’s about making ideas happen.

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APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. You can also listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast. * I realized I had a platform where, for whatever reason, people would pay attention to me. I raised a lot of money.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2008

"I think a lot of people perhaps have gotten a one-sided understanding of this issue of trafficking. I interviewed Christina for the Big Vision Podcast last month. CA: I think a lot of people perhaps have gotten a one-sided understanding of this issue of trafficking. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

She's brilliant and funny and pushes people to get excited about higher math and the big ideas behind it. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker, who are well known in museums for their excellent Smarthistory website and podcasts. Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Experiences: People love getting to do something unique, interesting, and valuable, even more than they like “things.” They can be a video interview with the donor about the mission. Membership cards: Some people like being card-carrying members of a group. Does your organization have a podcast or radio show for promotion?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

I told the conference co-founders, a husband and wife literary agent team, Elizabeth Pomada and Michael Larsen , that I'd help to spread the word about the conference so I interviewed Elizabeth for the Big Vision Podcast. And so we're going to have people like Rachel Naomi Remen speak. Elizabeth Pomada: Hi, I'm Elizabeth Pomada.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I had the opportunity to interview her on March 6th for the Big Vision Podcast, and have included an edited transcript of the interview below. I am quick to remind people in the United States that those rights were fought for. That isn't the case in the developing world.

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APRIL 25, 2007

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. I have heard him speak several times since, and each time, my hope is renewed.

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AUGUST 20, 2008

Their story was one of the ones that stood out the most for me from the series, so I was thrilled when a woman named Houria Iderkou, who set up a Causes campaign for KickStart on Facebook, contacted me to see if I'd like to interview Fisher. You can also listen to it on the Big Vision Podcast. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: bredgar If you're a frequent reader of this blog, you know that if I could do it all over again, I would have paid more attention in math class. Though my high school calculus class actually made me break out in hives -- it was the most stressful experience of my life -- I adore data. I want to eat statistics for dinner.

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DECEMBER 19, 2007

A month ago I listened to Christine Karumba, the Country Director for Women for Women International in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, tell Honorata's story on the Voices on Genocide Prevention podcast. They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. And walked. And walked.

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AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. I work with a co-facilitator and we visit sixth grade language arts and social studies classes for two-week writing workshops.

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JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. I also produce several podcasts, one of which is called the Big Vision Podcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2005

I first "met" Marshall when he left a comment on my blog about the interview with Marnie Webb. So far, I have interviewed people who I have met face-to-face or have known through my work in the nonprofit tech field. I am working on making a living turning other people on to it all. human aspects of technology.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of The East Bay, OBDC Small Business Finance, and People's Grocery. Below is an edited transcript of my Big Vision Podcast interview with Jose in late August. We interview the teams. You can also listen to our conversation on iTunes. We look at business plans.

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JANUARY 16, 2009

For people who are unfamiliar with your work, how do you describe your work? Whether it's my posters in the street, or books that I'm publishing that are getting out to bookstores, or workshops, or my speaking in different universities with different young people, I really see art as a way of changing our communities.

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MARCH 11, 2009

What we want is for all people to have some delicious, amazing, banging food!" You can listen to the interview on the Big Vision Podcast : Or read the edited transcript below. It has certain connotations that often push people away who don't embrace a plant-based diet. You have a new book coming out, Vegan Soul Kitchen.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2006

People connecting." Below is an edited transcript of my interview with Jessica, which you can also hear on the Big Vision Podcast. Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the purpose of poverty alleviation. About 70 percent of MFIs, or lending institutions, loan to fewer than 2500 people.

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MAY 28, 2021

which people should. The 280 people or whatever here also do. And recently, for the last five years or so, I’ve really moved more into helping people communicate more effectively internally and interpersonally, because that’s where I saw the most need. I say this a lot to people. It was great. Steven: Yeah.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 23, 2021

I have a feeling that if you listen to any fundraising podcast or read any fundraising blog or publication, you’re probably going to see her name if you haven’t already. The other thing about millennials that is important to note that people tend to forget is that millennials are in the workforce. But Dom is awesome.

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