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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

From @rootwork: The Media Mobilizing Project has done a lot here in Philly connecting community organizing to social media and especially video — community media trainings, organizing people to interview each other, etc. From @davidahood: San Francisco Zoo has done a wonderful job and engaging and supporting their community.

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Join the 29-Day Giving Challenge: Change Lives One Gift at a Time

Have Fun - Do Good

I was in a very dark period in my life dealing with a chronic illness (multiple sclerosis) as well as a major move from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I donated to a Relief International health clinic in the Zam Zam refugee camp in Darfur that trains indigenous doctors, midwives, and community health workers.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us Below is an edited transcript of the interview which you also can listen to online , or subscribe to via iTunes. We also did an interview with the reporter to get a feel for what went into the reporting. And it'll probably be to Southern California, Los Angeles, next.

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Another Exclusivity Paradox: Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums

Museum 2.0

A few weeks ago, I gathered a group of creative folks in San Francisco and asked them, "what makes a social venue feel welcoming and friendly to you?" And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. To my surprise, secrecy and exclusivity were at the top of the list.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

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. In the last couple of years, we've begun two new organizing projects.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Back in 1995, in the early days of the internet, a San Francisco innovator named Craig Newmark started a small email distribution list for friends, highlighting local events across the Bay Area. Consider, for example, the case of Instacart, an on-demand grocery delivery platform founded in San Francisco in 2012.

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