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Nurturing Inner City Entrepreneurs: Jose Corona of Inner City Advisors

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." -- Jose Corona, Inner City Advisors Jose Corona is the Executive Director of Inner City Advisors , a nonprofit that helps build sustainable and responsible inner city businesses that create quality jobs, reinvest in the community, and contribute to the local economy. Are you hiring locally? Are you using local suppliers?

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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 I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting.

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Leaders in Nonprofit Technology: Daniel Ben-Horin

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It grew out of a pioneer online community in the San Francisco Bay Area called The Well , the acronym for The Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help.

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Bringing Women a Global Voice: Jensine Larsen, World Pulse

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Last year we piloted it, in 2009. The most powerful impact we found was actually in the women's leadership and influence locally. Just here in the Bay Area we have local things like, Oakland Local , Oakland Seen , and Spot.us. We brought professional empowerment mentors and coaches, and also professional editors.

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