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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. Listen / Read Elizabeth Pomada Co-Founder of the Writing for Change Conference Listen Read Marsha Wallace Founder of Dining for Women Listen Read Shalini Kantayya, Filmmaker, A Drop of Life.

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DECEMBER 5, 2008

When you're on your death bed looking back on your life, what will you remember most, the stuff you received as gifts, or the time you spent with the people you care about? Inside the box was a brochure for the Oakland Zoo. On Wednesday I posted 10 Lists of Holiday Gifts That Give Back. It said, "A trip to the zoo!"

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FEBRUARY 19, 2009

Listen Read Abby Rosenheck (now Jaramillo), Founder and Executive Director, Urban Sprouts Listen Read Ilyse Hogue, Global Finance Campaign Director, Rainforest Action Network. Scotland Youth Program in West Oakland. (Mei-ying is now the Operations Director for the Asian Pacific Environmental Network).

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MAY 27, 2007

Over the past month, many of you have posted comments or sent me emails about my interview with Van Jones, the President and Co-founder of Oakland's Ella Baker Center , that I posted here, and on the Big Vision Podcast. Seriously, I had almost forgotten what my passion in life was until this article woke me up and reminded me.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. 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.

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AUGUST 29, 2010

They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. They become more aware of global economies, of how our global economy impacts other countries, the opening of how we become more aware of our actions and how they impact others. They traveled.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Thus, it continues the decades-long trend that IT spending has an increasing share of the global economy. 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.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice.

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DECEMBER 12, 2006

Ingrid Severson is the lead project organizer of the Rooftop Resources project, a project of the Oakland non-profit Bay Localize. This is in response to global warming and peak oil. We're choosing a one half-square mile region of Oakland. We're targeting the city of Oakland because it's a great city.

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JUNE 21, 2006

The primary need, obviously, in our community, West Oakland, is a lack of access to healthy and affordable foods. It's not just for West Oakland; it's for young people throughout the Bay Area. My name is Britt Bravo, and in today's show I will be talking with the co-founder and executive director of People's Grocery, Brahm Ahmadi.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2008

CH: You know it is funny; it actually didn't start out as a women-centered initiative, but the more research I did about creating global training sites and free media enterprises in these developing countries, training women just makes the most sense. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56.

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MAY 10, 2006

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. So I’m only 26. We also here at SOUL sell manuals.

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OCTOBER 22, 2008

Cami Walker, Founder, 29 Day Giving Challenge The 29 Day Giving Challenge is a global giving movement where participants give away one thing each day for 29 days. I have multiple sclerosis, and my life was in a very awful place. I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. A lot of wonderful things have happened in my life.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

ESRI makes their global coverage basemaps available for free to layer beneath your own map. ArcExplorer Having access to great maps on your desktop is nice, but how can you take this life changing map with you? Perhaps the single most useful feature for nonprofits is a great time saver and quality booster called ArcGIS Online.

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APRIL 24, 2007

Paul Rice, the founding president and CEO of the Oakland based nonprofit, TransFair USA , answers these questions and others in an interview for the Big Vision Podcast. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. Why should consumers buy Fair Trade Certified products?

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JUNE 22, 2006

We started taking youth from inner cities, of places like Oakland and East Palo Alto, into the woods. It is analyzing what you're trying to get out of life and having faith and belief that if you make a shift, that things are just going to work out. So we started offering backpacking yoga trips. And then get help. Get advice.

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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. Everyone is entitled to art in their life. I think that it's a shame, because art, I think, is a human right for anyone.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MARCH 2, 2022

Even as these companies rake in massive profits and outperform their more traditional competitors, the life of the platform worker is not getting better. Similarly, there has been a global rise of worker-managed platform cooperatives in response to the rise of platform companies.

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JUNE 30, 2007

In 1995, I'm giving you my life story; I took a class called Challenging White Supremacy. 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. One will be for mothers who are mourning the loss of their children who died in gunfights in Oakland.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

The Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit organization in Oakland, CA that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. So, just having spent so much of my life managing that fear through work, it was really intense to all of a sudden sit with that fear in a new way.

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APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. Oakland, among other places, sued, got a four-point-something million dollar settlement.

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JUNE 29, 2006

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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