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Launching the First Wave of the OF/BY/FOR ALL Change Network

Museum 2.0

With OF/BY/FOR ALL, we're playing a role in this ecosystem as an accelerant for organizational change. We need an ecosystem of activists, academics, funders, professionals, policymakers, and associations striving together towards common goals. Heck, I've spent lots of time participating in those ways myself.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

Our Time (Facebook) is a nonprofit dedicated to youth empowerment through the voting process. The iPad app provides free videos to K-12 students on various topics, including math, science, finance, and history. The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

Desai came to the Women of Color Resource Center from a Deputy Director role at United for a Fair Economy. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. It is a much more complex and nuanced history. That actually wasn't the case at all.

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Alli Chagi-Starr, Art in Action/Ella Baker Center, Podcast Interview Transcription

Have Fun - Do Good

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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