Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. Refurbishment and the Environment. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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Marketing Gartner Laptop Trend 59

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 25, 2021

Fabricated societal hierarchies placed on us, such as being labeled “the model minority” — a harmful myth used to divide minority groups and to create the illusion that Asians do not experience the same degrees of hardship as other minorities — have only made it more difficult for our voices to be heard. We see you and we hear you.

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San Francisco Community Support Oakland 98

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Interview San Francisco Classroom Classes 40

Everyaction

MAY 16, 2018

In addition to their commitment to providing comprehensive mental health services to residents of Ocean County, OMHS also offers a unique educational offering in the form of Ocean Academy, a small therapeutic school that supports students who need mental health support in order to succeed academically.

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Awareness Organization West Virginia Homeless 74

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 9, 2007

When this program sprang up, Rainforest Action Network, had been involved in campaigns surrounding the crushing of the EV1 a decade ago, which happened here in California -- with the car mandate -- many people have now seen Who Killed The Electric Car , and it goes into explaining that story quite well.

Interview 40

Interview Green California San Francisco 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We’ll be in California in January, we just left. So, for example, if I provide an after-school program, I just use that a lot because I ran an after-school program for over a decade, but if I’m delivering academic programs, then I’m going to be looking at the number of students served. So we’re going to dive in.

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Report Measure Process Impact 82

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong is joining us from beautiful California by way of South Dakota in her background. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. Julie, how’s it going? You doing okay?

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Community Video Slides Survey 80

Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think about how hesitant I was to become an artist, because I didn't see role models, and even to this day how hard it is for me sometimes to find peers who are women of color, because of how systematically they are pushed out. I ended up going to college, trying to be an architect, because, again, I was one of those honor-roll students.

Artist 40

Artist Digital Arts San Francisco 40

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 22, 2021

And I’ve just seen we range from Florida to Alaska, California, Indiana, New York, Canada. Yes, we’re interested in workforce development, but we’re not interested in offering students scholarships,” for example. Now, when you look at those numbers, it’s simply unacceptable. Now, co-planning a program.

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Grant Video Donor Foundation 102

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

The slogan is "Green Collar Jobs, not Jails" and what we're trying to promote a big vision which includes being able to employ formerly incarcerated people from the Oakland area, "at risk" -- quote unquote -- people from this area into jobs which don't hurt the environment, that actually help sustain us as a community.

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Arts Podcast Action Interview 40