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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I had a chance this week to preside over TechSoup’s booth at the latest Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) in San Francisco. Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world.

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3 Ways to Support the Asian American Community

Saleforce Nonprofit

Materials distributed in San Francisco Chinatown on how to report Asian hate crimes, written in English and Chinese. Currently living in San Francisco and unable to travel due to COVID precautions, I feel trapped, unable to be with them during these particularly scary times. Photo Credit: Aaron Molo. About the Author.

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Big Vision Podcast: Steve Williams from POWER

Have Fun - Do Good

We began, essentially, organizing a union of low-wage workers, unemployed workers, to try to improve both the living conditions and the working conditions for low-wage workers here in San Francisco. This woman was cleaning the buses, cleaning graffiti off the San Francisco MUNI buses. I was hooked from that moment on.

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[VIDEO] 3 Steps To Closing $10K+ Gifts By December 31

Bloomerang

Joining us from beautiful Los Angeles is my pal, Julie Ordonez. I’m based in Los Angeles. You can send them voice memos, if you have their cell phone. Will you consider giving $25,000 this year in supporting youth in San Francisco? Wait at least an hour because, dang, I’m excited.

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Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch

Amy Sample Ward

Thrivability is our path out of unsustainable practices toward a world where all people have a high quality of life, a voice, and a nurturing earth supporting them. And it gives rise… to this book.

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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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