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FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Megan Price I recently had the opportunity to present several of HRP’s projects to the local San Francisco chapter of the American Statistical Association (SFASA).

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

Ten years ago, Jed was the head of REDF, the famous social enterprise foundation in San Francisco. Last week I was in New York City and had the opportunity to meet with many interesting people (and got lots of ideas). One key connection was with Jed Emerson.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2014

a technology and media venture based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Previously she was an independent consultant working with The Chicago Council on Global Affairs on the 2012 NATO Summit, Chicago Ideas Week, news platform Syria Deeply and FEM Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Mifos, HP and SocialCoding4Good will have subject matter experts, technical leads and developer teams at RHoK Bangalore , Dublin and San Francisco , focusing on three key projects: Creating a mobile version of Mifos X , enabling information flows, processes and transactions to be completed via mobile.

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JUNE 3, 2011

I recently had the opportunity to visit with one of their main funders, George Hara, in San Francisco. They were going to bring Bangladesh better wireless internet than exists in California, and they’ve done it. George is a financial mastermind with one foot in Asia and the other in California.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Last night I was able to meet Vivek Kundra, the new Chief Information Officer of the federal government, at an event organized by Full Circle Fund and the Craigslist Foundation hosted by IBM at their offices on Market Street in San Francisco. For me, it's an amazing change.

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APRIL 4, 2010

Great to see two social enterprise bloggers, Kylie Eastley of Tasmania and Tristan Pollock from Minnesota, won Halle Tecco's contest on Huffington Post to go to the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit later this month in San Francisco.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2011

The next Data Dive will be held here in San Francisco on Nov. Several of us plan to remain involved in NYCLU’s proposed analyses and look forward to staying in contact with Sara and the other members of the team. Descriptions of our project, plus the projects with MiX and Global Pulse, can be found on the Data Without Borders wiki.

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AUGUST 26, 2008

I know that a group is starting here in the San Francisco bay area, and I'm looking forward to joining it. The initial chapters have just been starting this year. Our first chapter was in St. Louis, and our second one in Baltimore, and more are forming all the time.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Chuck and Jerry Colonna hosted a reception at Boulder’s Impact Hub (such a cool organization, I am a founding member of the San Francisco Impact Hub) to connect me with the tech community in Boulder. I have half a dozen great connections as a result.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

In the San Francisco area, the Tides Center is best known for offering fiscal sponsorship. Many folks ask us to be a fiscal sponsor for their social tech projects, but we've decided it would be a distraction from our core work, plus we're not experts in supporting other projects. They offer a range of services for their fee.

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MARCH 5, 2007

Guatemala struggles to find war crimes justice was in the San Francisco Chronicle, and captures the personal side of this work. Two good articles recently covered the Guatemala secret police archive project that we are supporting. Many people want to know what happened to those who disappeared in Guatemala's civil war.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Plus, the Social Enterprise Alliance is a cosponsor of the event, and we're scheduled to host the third world forum in San Francisco in 2010. And Scotland is a logical place for such an event. One of the fun aspects of social enterprise conferences is to visit the social enterprises.

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JULY 20, 2005

Nice article in the San Francisco Chronicle on our Harry Potter scanning project, entitled Books ripped up, fed to online library for the blind. Hundreds of Bookshare.org members have downloaded the book already, while I'm waiting for my wife to finish the print copy my daughter read first!

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MARCH 1, 2012

We hosted Harkin and ten fellow social entrepreneurs at the cool space of the Hub SoMa, in the heart of San Francisco. This is not quite Benetech’s area of expertise, but I took up to the challenge. An amazing conversation ensued, in which Senator Harkin was highly engaged.

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AUGUST 4, 2005

Victoria and David lead efforts that are the closest in spirit and philosophy to Benetech, and we're all in the San Francisco Bay Area, even though we are all focused internationally. The other social entrepreneurs profiled are David Green and Victoria Hale, two folks I greatly admire.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

That's the size of the entire San Francisco Bay Area. I had heard of the province, but was flabbergasted to not know the name of Fuzhou. Imagine overlooking a city of over 6 million people (described by a Fuzhou native as a "medium-sized Chinese city!"). I was also surprised by the wealth of this city.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2005

Orphan works article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian News. I'll be speaking out more on copyright issues in the coming months. A recent article mentions why Benetech is concerned about orphan works: obscure works are hard to find the copyright owner, and it costs to much to hassle with.

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OCTOBER 30, 2006

In the San Francisco Bay Area, there will be an in-person meeting as well on matchmaking at UC Berkeley's Haas Business School, on November 17, 2006. I have been a judge twice in the last five years, and the quality of the business plans being judged has simply soared over that time period.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2008

Inquiries If you are interested in being considered for nomination to ZeroDivide's Board of Directors please send a letter of interest, resume and a list of references by Friday, October 31, 2008, to: Jackie Brand, Nominating and Governance Committee Chair c/o Tessie Guillermo, President and CEO ZeroDivide 425 Bush Street, Suite 300 San Francisco, (..)

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JANUARY 18, 2010

I flew into Abuja from Kinshasa, and my colleague Rahwa Tareke joined me from San Francisco. On my second trip to Abuja last October, we conducted a two week intensive training for the NHRC’s own instructors. For five days, we focused on teaching the NHRC staff to use the Martus software.

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MAY 2, 2005

After a short cab ride, a Golden Gate Bus ride to San Francisco, a BART ride to Pittsburgh, I was told to take a Delta Transit bus to Oakley. Jim From: "Rich Irwin" To: "Gps-Talkusers" Hi All: Thought I would share a great GPS experience I had last week. Not only had I not been to Oakley before, but I had never heard of Delta Transit.

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JUNE 27, 2008

I had met Jackie Speier, the new Congresswoman from the San Francisco peninsula, at a library event shortly before she was elected to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Tom Lantos. Also, it helps to have the help of a lobbying firm like ours, which focuses solely on representing the social sector.

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APRIL 3, 2007

He then went to point out that Martin is in San Francisco and he is in Nairobi, and the time difference made for late night calls talking about KickStart! We were in a story-telling workshop and each had to talk about what motivated us, what kept us up at night and what got us up in the morning. That was the best part for me.

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APRIL 25, 2008

We were scheduled to go from San Francisco to Heathrow (London, UK) and then to Chennai, and then to Madurai. And so it seemed with our baggage from British Airways on my current trip to India. We had heard about the Terminal Five woes a month back, and thought they were solved. Unfortunately, solutions are an illusion.

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MARCH 2, 2012

During our holiday party, we displayed thirty pieces of art provided by Creativity Explored , a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts organization. Creativity Explored operates a studio on 16th Street in San Francisco which includes about 60 artists, and another studio on Arkansas Street where another 20 people work.

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JULY 22, 2012

I'm a recent transplant to California, and just finished my first year as an NLCSD Fellow in the Joint Doctoral Program for Special Education at UC Berkeley/San Francisco State. I've been a longtime fan of Bookshare's services, and this summer, I'm thrilled to be working with the people that develop these amazing resources.

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JULY 16, 2018

Just in the San Francisco Bay Area, we convinced eleven organizations that collectively spend seven figures developing their own databases of this information. We promised not to criticize anybody’s database publicly, but we did tell them how their database compared to the other ten in aggregate.

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JUNE 1, 2010

I had met Abbas at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit/World Forum in San Francisco. I also personally delivered the business cards of Abbas Abbas, a blind Ashoka social entrepreneur, who focuses on serving the needs of Arabs with disabilities in Israel with his AlManarah (Lighthouse) Association.

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