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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. 10 Tips for an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Facebook Fan Page by Beth Kanter on BlogHer. It's been a been a busy few weeks! Early registration deadline is Nov.

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day Art in Action: Youth Leadership Training Program Mission: "Art in Action empowers youth leaders by engaging arts for social change through personal, social, political, and cultural education." Cross-posted from BlogHer. People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us

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Funding Personal and Social Transformation: Paula Sammons, Seasons Fund

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Change must first happen in the imagination of people before it can take root in a culture. Groups like Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice located in Oakland, California, working on the front lines of the reproductive justice movement. Cross posted from BlogHer. In the words of the great leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

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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). Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher.

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Solutionary Women: Mei-ying Ho

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The podcast isn't up yet, but here is a partially modified transcription of our conversation which you can also read along with profiles of other Solutionary Women on Blogher : What is SOUL? SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. Their culture. So I’m only 26. Their method. Their practice.

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29-Day Giving Challenge: An Interview with Cami Walker

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I work with a medicine woman from Oakland. My assumption, because this comes from an indigenous African medicine culture, is that it is related to the moon cycle. Cross-posted from BlogHer giving Cami Walker 29 Day Giving Challenge I'd been in the hospital five times in three months, or something like that.

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Jennifer Lee, Right-Brain Business Plan: How I Have Fun, Do Good

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Women here in Oakland. The women are from all over the world and each faces various challenges like language barriers, cultural differences, being a single parent, and more, yet they continue preserve toward their dreams. I’ve coached a massage therapist from Japan and a jewelry designer from Peru.

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