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FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Dining for Women's blog Enough Mission: "The Enough Project is helping to build a permanent constituency to prevent genocide and crimes against humanity." GI-NET's blog Global Fund for Women Mission: "The Global Fund for women promotes women's economic security, health, education and leadership." Enough's blog, Enough Said.

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JULY 6, 2011

Our intuitions told us that stories of great local projects were not traveling from town to town. Local leaders weren’t getting the credit they deserved. We hosted community discussions in Oakland, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Minneapolis, and Portland. Momentum was being lost. So we asked.

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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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FEBRUARY 22, 2008

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. Now she is the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org Listen Read Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) Listen Read Anna Lappé, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund.

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MARCH 1, 2007

Scotlan Youth Program in West Oakland. Now she is the Campaign Director for MoveOn.org Listen Read Steve Williams, Co-founder and Executive Director of POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights) Listen Read Anna Lappe, co-author of Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen and co-founder of the Small Planet Fund.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2010

If you have suggestions for people for me to interview for future shows, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com, or leave a comment below.

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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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Unwilling to sit by and watch, I took action in my local community by patrolling San Francisco Chinatown with Asians in America, Inc. Patrol volunteer offering PPE to local Chinatown residents. to deter violence and crime. . In addition to individual action, there is great power in turning to my Salesforce.org community for support.

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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. If we can begin to build that at a local base, we can begin to create jobs that are associated with that new structure that we create. These are a lot more of the sort of peripheral aspects of this problem.

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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 14, 2006

You can learn more about Jeffrey Sachs' work with the UN Millenium Project here. I met Bryant, who created all the recipes for the book, just last week at a fundraiser for the Oakland-based food justice nonprofit, People's Grocery. Paradigm Found by Anne Firth Murray. Grub by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry. books social change

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APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. Participate in workshops, lead a workshop.

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MARCH 9, 2007

The three Bay Area municipalities, along with Oakland and San Francisco (who haven't placed their orders yet) have all signed-on to be part of Plug-In Bay Area, an initiative to put more plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road. We're also working with those cities on generating some demonstration projects. What's going on?

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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 work with a medicine woman from Oakland. Now there are organized events happening locally. How has it affected the project, if at all? We practice gratitude.

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MARCH 1, 2011

If so, great: stick with what works for your project! ESRI makes their global coverage basemaps available for free to layer beneath your own map. We love these map layers for local work, but for nonprofits working across nations these are incredible time savers. You may find another way or another tool to suit your needs.

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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. Because those are the things that usually get you -- when you're going from idea, to project, to "ooh-I-got-some-business," to small business, to medium-size -- you get those snags. So we started offering backpacking yoga trips.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Due to the fact that the focus of these media corporations is on creating profits rather than social justice, the many answers that we demand as conscious global citizens become conditional. Our mission is to strengthen the voice of activist artists - 'Artivists' - while raising public awareness for social global causes."

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This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. Project Open Hand. For major campaigns or specific projects, creating a dedicated website can be a very smart move. North Shore Animal League.

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JUNE 30, 2007

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. The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. We have four initiatives. If anyone is interested, I have a flier outside.

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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. The Center helps to build local, regional, and national networks of young activists, across interests, constituencies and geographies.

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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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