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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Accessing sustainable food is easier with for mobile access to databases (Seafood Watch), delivery of hyper local foods (Spud.com), online links for farmers and buyers (Roots of Change), and maps of food grown in your neighborhood (Forage Oakland). Reggie Bibbs is on a one-man mission to raise awareness of his disorder, neurofibromatosis.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

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Our work focuses on advocacy, policy, education and political thought that helps to shape the dialogue and public conversation about the interests of these folks. We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints. What can people do to change that?

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Raising the Floor of the Platform Economy: Co-ops, Unions, and the Struggle to Transform Technology

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To support this vision, the Drivers Cooperative has been successful in raising more than $1.4 How to raise capital to develop a sophisticated app that is able to compete with Uber? SEIU supported Coworker.org , a digital political advocacy organization that lobbies for policy change and helped create the Workers’ Lab.

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